Archive for the ‘Doctors Appointments’ Category

Post surgery progress report

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

The surgery went pretty well. My neck still feels like I got punched repeatedly, and I had to get morphine for the pain while I was in the hospital, but I didn’t feel drowsy the same way as I did last time after recovery.

I’m also back in Washington now, so the progress reports are going to be spread farther apart, but more complete.

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Progress Report: March 12

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Doctors appointment went well, and with some minor little insurance issues, looks like we’ll be having surgery tomorrow afternoon.

Progress report after the break.

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Progress Report: March 11

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Tomorrow morning I have my pre-surgery consultation for a small procedure I’m having done on my spine to help mitigate the pain from some severe disc damage I have from a car wreck a few years ago. Supposedly I have gym plans with a friend afterwards, but if not it’ll be back to the studying grind, and I’ll just jog for a bit outside. I don’t plan on doing much more than cardio at the gym anyway.

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Arthritis Quest begins

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Arthritis Quest is a new blog, chronicling my quest to survive with inflammatory arthritis.

About me: I’m a 25 year old male in Washington DC, who was recently diagnosed with inflammatory arthritis. The doctors right now are not sure if it is rheumatoid arthritis, sarcoidosis, or some other deal. So, this blog will follow my journey through learning to live with whatever disease that I have.

After the shock of getting this diagnosis, I’ve decided to make some lifestyle changes. This blog will also follow my quest to drop my blood pressure, and lose weight. I didn’t want to call this blog weightloss quest, or blood pressure quest, so it will have to do as an ancillary to the living with my arthritis theme.

Tomorrow or Wednesday, I’ll write more about this Monday’s rheumatology meeting. But I have one more post to make before I do that.