A little tipsy

What a crappy week. I woke up last Wednesday, stood up, and nearly fell over. I walked downstairs and was very dizzy, and I started vomiting. Here it is now almost a week later and I am still running a fever, with a big headache and an aching back, and I’ve lost ten pounds this week. It is getting better though; the double vision is gone, I can use a computer, and I was vertical most of yesterday.

When it started I thought, this is great, this is some inner ear thing. I’d been surfing Sunday and Monday, so maybe I picked up something in the water. I called my doc, said Hey, either I have an ear infection or a brain tumor, and went in to see him, but he saw no evidence of an ear infection. He wanted me to get an MRI, because he was worried the swelling in my brain had messed up the spinal fluid flow. He also wanted me to get an extra spinal tap and chemo injection, just in case that swelling had blocked the last spinal chemo injection.

Sheesh, I started typing this at 9 this morning, but couldn’t get it done. I’ll try again.

So I went in and had an MRI, and what a bizarre bunch of noises that thing makes, like a collection of factory noises with Tourette Syndrome. Not painful, unless you are claustrophobic, which I am not. The MRI showed I have a sinus infection. That’s it. So I go on antibiotics, and Friday I go back to Spinal Tap city. That went fine too, but I was not feeling any better, dizzy, nauseous, couldn’t eat, sweats, chills. I don’t know if the antibiotics are helping or the infection is just wearing out, because yesterday the doc says he thinks it’s viral.

I’m thinking Lyme disease, West Nile virus, or ???? Just going to have to wait it out. If I’d gotten whatever the hell I got pre-leukemia, I’d think I had the flu. Now, though, I get an MRI and a spinal tap.

And to top it all off, Dana says to me the other day, ‘When did you lose your eyebrows?” It was always a joke before, with the Eyebrow Lowbrow, but now it’s finally happening. I just hope I don’t lose my eyelashes too.