Confuscius says: “He who omits if-then-else statement has no choice.”
— zolaar

Click the Read More link for a long, long rant on my health.

I’m still waiting for results from all the testing they’ve done to see if I have Crohn’s or something else; my followup appointment isn’t until the 24th of July. And I’m so very tired of waiting. I’ve been trying to follow a low fiber/low residue diet at doctor’s orders, which was supposedly going to keep the level of pain I experienced down. I say supposedly, because it certainly hasn’t. I’ve had pain from drinking water, for goodness sake. And I’m so weary of it I really don’t know what to do.

I’m tearing up my poor wife with worry; I even made my mother cry when she called to wish me a happy birthday and I couldn’t hide the pain I was in at the time. My wife’s folks are visiting and I’m closeted away in bed all day, in too much pain to sit out in the living room and socialize normally. Something needs to change, its a vicious cycle at the moment: I’m in pain, and it causes those I love pain, which causes me more pain. Repeat. I optimistically keep trying to say its getting better, but whenever I do I have an episode like last night to prove me wrong. I got maybe 3 scattered hours of sleep, and I’m still in a large amount of pain this morning (thankfully the pain lies in remission until I have to move around, so sitting at my desk at work is somewhat safe; if only my job description didn’t require all the upcoming movement!).

I’m calling the various doctors today and going to once again try to impress on them the severity of my situation. I’m going to start incurring further unrelated health problems as a result of malnutrition and lack of sleep if something doesn’t change. The Endocort EC meds they gave me have made no appreciable change in the week+ I’ve been taking them, and I’m out of prescription painkillers (which only really took the edge off the pain, never helped with the worst of it).

That’s enough ranting/whining for now. Despite the pain, I’ve got work that has to get done.