AAAUUUUUUGGGGH! I feel like Charlie Brown when Lucy pulls the football away,.....lying on my back in disguised.
I found not one, but 2 bullseyes on my left side on Saturday. "Maybe they could be from something else,.." I thought trying not to believe what I'm seeing. Today I'm tired from the colonscopy I had yesterday,...."resoved diverticulosis," the doctor's discharge notice said.
But wait,...why do I still feel so bad? Surly this constant low grade fever, abdominal pain, leg & arm numbness, larthgy is from my diverticulosis attack on April 1st,...no joke. That was the night I threw up from 8pm to 2am. Soaked my clothes and sheets from a fever that was inferno hot, but left me cold to the bone. My muscle soreness was just rewards from my gym routine,..right? As I stood looking in the mirror, I realized that a "Bullseye" really is the center of something.
So I went to the clinic and waited. "Didn't you learn from the last time?" the doctor said. Of course,..deet, shower, inspection,....but I'm a mountain biker and I love to play in the woods. I do all the procautions. How do I do all this and still avoid something I can't see?
Here's the KICKER!
"You can't,...said the doctor. I never go into the woods and I got Lime's disease just before I was to go into med school. I was so shot from the symptoms I had to wait a year."
"How did you get it then," I asked. "The white footed field mice in my house, they are also carriers." he replied.
I'm sitting there devistated...........if you really know me, you know I love gardening as much as I love biking. For the past 3 months, I've been gardening, cleaning the shed, the wood pile, the old flower pots, buckets, etc. Under everything are mouse nests. I let the wild cat stay in the yard in hopes they will catch the mice. I had no idea. I didn't put Deet on when I was in my own yard! Heck, I put my cycling clothes out on the laundry line to dry..........did I think to inspect my clean clothes for ticks?
The only good thing about this whole this is 1) I have the answer to my misery 2) Stop N Shop offers free antibodics til July 11th and 3) the pharmacist exchanged my capsule formula to tablet formula doxycline. (tablet is easier on GI tracts and with my record,..I need it.)
Oh,...ho hummmm
I found not one, but 2 bullseyes on my left side on Saturday. "Maybe they could be from something else,.." I thought trying not to believe what I'm seeing. Today I'm tired from the colonscopy I had yesterday,...."resoved diverticulosis," the doctor's discharge notice said.
But wait,...why do I still feel so bad? Surly this constant low grade fever, abdominal pain, leg & arm numbness, larthgy is from my diverticulosis attack on April 1st,...no joke. That was the night I threw up from 8pm to 2am. Soaked my clothes and sheets from a fever that was inferno hot, but left me cold to the bone. My muscle soreness was just rewards from my gym routine,..right? As I stood looking in the mirror, I realized that a "Bullseye" really is the center of something.
So I went to the clinic and waited. "Didn't you learn from the last time?" the doctor said. Of course,..deet, shower, inspection,....but I'm a mountain biker and I love to play in the woods. I do all the procautions. How do I do all this and still avoid something I can't see?
Here's the KICKER!
"You can't,...said the doctor. I never go into the woods and I got Lime's disease just before I was to go into med school. I was so shot from the symptoms I had to wait a year."
"How did you get it then," I asked. "The white footed field mice in my house, they are also carriers." he replied.
I'm sitting there devistated...........if you really know me, you know I love gardening as much as I love biking. For the past 3 months, I've been gardening, cleaning the shed, the wood pile, the old flower pots, buckets, etc. Under everything are mouse nests. I let the wild cat stay in the yard in hopes they will catch the mice. I had no idea. I didn't put Deet on when I was in my own yard! Heck, I put my cycling clothes out on the laundry line to dry..........did I think to inspect my clean clothes for ticks?
The only good thing about this whole this is 1) I have the answer to my misery 2) Stop N Shop offers free antibodics til July 11th and 3) the pharmacist exchanged my capsule formula to tablet formula doxycline. (tablet is easier on GI tracts and with my record,..I need it.)
Oh,...ho hummmm
