free!

[miriam_e]

I've finished my course of medical treatment! Yay!

For 2 years I've dealt with being constantly tired and out of breath, having most of my hair fall out, losing dangerous amounts of body weight (I'm naturally skinny), and trying to think with a fuzzed-out brain. Now my mind is already starting to speed up again and I don't need to sleep as much. The doctor tells me it will take about a month to really come good again, my hair will probably grow back (gulp), and I should start looking less like a walking stick-insect soon. :)

Over the coming weeks expect more posts from me. Yay!

Comments

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :)
I was getting what was hopefully a cure for a viral infection (we'll find out for sure when I'm tested in a month). Because viruses are so damn hard to attack the treatment tends to be kinda toxic. On top of that, I'm quite skinny and don't like to eat, and unfortunately this treatment gets more toxic the less body mass you have.

keep getting better

[revbobbob.livejournal.com]

I've been so worried about you. I'm glad to hear you're on the mend. keep doing it. The world isn't exactly crowded with good people and good friends.

Re: keep getting better

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

heheh :) Thanks Bob.
Hope you are well and happy.

In a way the treatment had an unexpectedly calming influence on my mind. Now I've stopped, my mind is racing in fruitless circles faster than ever before. Hope it doesn't take too long to come back down to normal. Doctor thinks maybe a month. In the meantime I jiggle and dance to music once again. Yay!

Re: keep getting better

[revbobbob.livejournal.com]

Jiggling and dancing can't be bad.

I'm going some cyclical mood things with a period of 3-4 days as they take me down off of one of my drugs.

Everything affects the brain. They should just say that on the bottle. Or when they give you a drug let you put your brain in a jar till they're done.

Apart from that I'm disgustingly healthy: mowing the lawn, making web pages.

Keep on dancing (dancing and a-prancing).

love,

Re: keep getting better

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Everything affects the brain.

Yes. Even milk!

The medication I was on made sleep difficult (paradoxically I was constantly tired). They offered me tranquillisers, but I refused them, being able to use my knowledge of the marvellous relaxing, sleep-inducing powers of warm milk to help.

Pop a glass of milk in the microwave oven for 2 minutes, drink it, and about 20 minutes later sleep comes much more easily.

The dancing and jiggling is great. I so missed those parts of life.

Hope you get through your experiences without too much difficulty. Glad you do seem to be. Keep on being disgustingly healthy. The world needs people like you.