I thank all of you for reading this blog, but, frankly, I'm tired of writing it. I'm tired of having diseases to report and illnesses to detail. So, I would like to propose this to be my last post. Of course, if I have a cancer recurrence, then all blogs and other forums for complaint are up for renewal, but for now they are cancelled.
Before I leave you, though, I would like to let everyone know that God has seemingly struck me down again. This time the weapon of choice was a deer tick, which I found and removed on last Saturday. On Thursday night, I had trouble sleeping, due to the fact that my house was apparently 42 degrees. It turns out that my internal thermostat gauge was l little off, due to my 102+ degree fever. When I woke on Friday, the tiny bite mark from the tick, who has aspirations to grow to be the size of a sesame seed, was red and angry looking.
So, I went in to the doctor ... although, in retrospect should a person with a high grade fever be driving a motorized vehicle? Probably not.
My doctor told me that I probably had Lyme Disease, but that the blood work would most likely come back negative, as it takes 4to 6 weeks for the body to process a positive result to the titer. So, by the time I am ready to show a positive result, I will have been on antibiotics for several weeks, thus interfering with the test, anyway. So, now I'm on a strong and long dose of antibiotics. I'm also on a crapload of pain meds to reduce the fever that makes me alternately feel the need to sleep under a down blanket with a sweatsuit on and the need to put my head in the freezer to stop the sweating.
I'm not happy about any of this.
Most specifically, I find it ridiculous that I still have things to report on this blog. When it started, I was receiving pressure from people at work to create a caring bridge site. Liz has cancer ... Ooohh! I thought that everyone could be well served by a cancer blog. But, I never guessed that my cancer blog would turn into a failed surgery blog ... and then another failed surgery blog ... and then a lupus/arthritis blog ... and then a Lyme Disease blog.
Is it difficult to even believe me?
I'm not making this crap up. I wish I were.
But, I'm done. It's time for someone else to take on these fights.
I'm out.
