Planning The Unpredictable

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Entries from January 2009

Hihi, I’m still around.

January 31st, 2009 · 1 Comment

First things first, I am on this weeks Carnival of MS Bloggers so head over and check it out!
And for a regular update…. work has been very busy. We are *so* close to shipping which means I am busy busy! We had layoffs last week which were pretty hard for [...]

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Tags: Insurance

Holy Vitamin D Batman…

January 16th, 2009 · 6 Comments

So I have been taking 10,000 IU a day of D3 for about 6 months now. The first three months my vitamin D level was at 40 even. With all the new reserach, we decided to try and get me on the higher end. We added an additional 50,000 IU a week [...]

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Tags: Doctor Visits

So back to the pee…

January 15th, 2009 · 7 Comments

Let me see… first off, I am very western medicine focused. Since Seattle has a very large Natural Medicine School, we tended to get a lot of Bastyr graduates. I am very leary of their training. I am sure they are good but I went to one once and she said my [...]

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Tags: Doctor Visits · Newly Diagnosed

Neuropsych

January 13th, 2009 · 4 Comments

When the lovely doctor asked me what my daily MS symptoms are I said word finding was at the top of the list. She said that I should consider a Neuropsych test in the next year or so. The purpose is to get a baseline of cognitive abilities now. I hadn’t really [...]

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Tags: Doctor Visits · Newly Diagnosed

I am all out of blood, pee and hair

January 13th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Well, isn’t MS fun? Today was my appointment with the Naturopath and boy was it interesting. She took about 6 huge veils of blood. She wants 24 hours of my pee. AND SHE WANTS MY HAIR! She is very demanding this one….
I didn’t get a chance to read the lab form [...]

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Tags: Doctor Visits

Pulled a mother…

January 3rd, 2009 · 6 Comments

My mother is one of those outgoing types that talks to strangers. She will randomly talk to people on the bus. THE BUS! There are lots of weird people on the bus. She is also related to half of eastern Washington it seems. A good example of this was many [...]

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Tags: Blog · Newly Diagnosed

New Years Anti-resolutions

January 1st, 2009 · 7 Comments

Since less than 10% of folks actually keep their new years resolutions, I decided to do the opposite and post what I don’t want for my resolutions. That way, I have a much higher success rate.
I would like more lesions for my MRI in May.
More pills! I love pills!
More doctor appointments! I [...]

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Tags: Blog · Newly Diagnosed