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Looks like labs came back preliminary. Still waiting for the rest of the results. But Good news is the vancomycin is out of my body. The bad? My WBC are extremely high. As well as ESR. CRP for some reason has come down with is good. Infectious Disease left me a VM this morning letting… Continue reading Early Lab Results

Had to get more labs drawn today. I woke up at 5:30am. But I slept like complete crap. So I started off the day just exhausted. Work had a few early morning issues that I jumped in and helped with until it was time to leave. I printed off the ATM genetic test results before… Continue reading More Labs and Borrowed Time

An unintended side effect of the heart attack is I’ve been losing weight without trying. At most I can can only consume about 1200 calories a day with the barrier of 1500mg of sodium per day. I’m still trying to figure out the nutritional aspect of this, I know it’s a work in progress. I… Continue reading Losing Weight, Broken Sleep, and Fevers

It’s been a rough week. On all fronts. I did return to work on Tuesday, which is something I’ve been looking towards. I have a hard time staying idle. Doing, well I guess “nothing”. When we moved I setup our new Quantum fiber setup. The new apartment has Cat5e in the walls, so I put… Continue reading Can’t Sleep AGAIN

Yesterday showed my Vancomycin trough level to be dangerously high. I was in the 50’s. So I held my vancomycin all day yesterday. Had labs again, and it’s dropped to 27. My visit this morning with infectious disease was just labs. Hopefully the vancomycin trough continues to drop. Because too much of it can cause… Continue reading Full Stop

After the fiasco this morning, our HR group did not waste any time. I had a message by noon that the issue was fixed, but still unknown when I’ll get paid. I logged into Sedgwick’s site, and without hesitation, they fixed all the dates, and automatically approved my paperwork. I feel like this entire day… Continue reading We Fixed the Glitch

Yesterday the vancomycin trough came back high. Which in turn make infectious disease stop all IV antibiotics. I told them that the blood draw was done 3 hours too soon, but they didn’t want to listen to me. So I’ve had to go without the antibiotic that’s been keeping me alive for 24 hours. Last… Continue reading Doing What I Can

Over the weekend, my results came back from Kaufmans draw last week. WBC had climbed to 16.8, and my CRP has jumped to 41. I was supposed to come to LabCorp today for 2 labs, but I called their office to add CBC/CMP/CRP. Since over the weekend the fevers just won’t go away. Hopefully I… Continue reading Yet More Labs

Yup. It’s back. But not the typical everything burns. Eyes, sinuses, throat, jaw. It’s just the jaw and mouth. It’s the two lumps in the front of my jaw. I feel this inflammation just randomly snaking through my mouth. It pulses, the white crap continues to come out. It’s definitely mold related. I know Hepworth… Continue reading The Worst Alarm Clock

As much as I was hoping that my labs would be looking better, they aren’t. These labs were drawn last Thursday. I woke up this morning expecting to feel like a million dollars since that’s what ketamine does, however, looking at those labs, indicates I’m headed towards sepsis soon. The only positive thing, is my… Continue reading Downward Spiral Once Again