First of all, I must apologise for the massive gaps between blog posts these days. It is a bit hard to figure out what I should write about these days, and sometimes I just cannot find the inspiration for a blog entry!
However, it has been pretty eventful these past couple of weeks so I actually have some things to say!
My sister hen-do took place about a week ago. It was the furthest I'd travelled and the most activity I'd done since the op. I did get very tired, though. The plan was to have some games and stuff ("stuff" being snacks) during the day, then go to a restaurant for a meal, and then on to a karaoke bar. Now, I managed the games and snack eating, then I had a little lie down so I could be rested for the evening activities. Unfortunately, I didn't last long at the restaurant before I got very tired and achy and had to go home. I had fun up until that moment, though!
The next day I met up with my friend Brittany and we had a little stroll around and some lunch. I just tried to take it easy and sit down whenever I got tired.
I was pretty pleased with myself for how much I had managed to do, but I did need a few days to recover!
Then I was hit with nausea. Ugh, it was horrible, and I could not identify the cause of it! I knew I had a couple of follow-up appointments coming up (one at the BRI. The other at St. James') so I tried to hold on until then. On top of general nausea, my calcichews were making me gag, and I wanted to speak to the doctor about it.
The follow-up at the BRI did not go too badly at all! My main worry was that they would stick a camera down my nose again, but thankfully, they did not! I just spoke to the doctor about how I was feeling and such, and he suggested that the nausea might be due to too much calcium (AGAIN) and sent me for a blood test.
The next day I went to see the consultant at Leeds (where even more blood was taken) and I spoke about how I felt with her. She told me that while my body was still getting to used to everything, I would tire out easily, and it was a matter of pacing myself. She mentioned sending me to an endocrinologist at the BRI whom she works with. She also said that I'm progressing normally which is GREAT, because "normal" is a word that is not normally associated with me!
When I came out of that appointment, the doctor from the day before called me with my blood test results and said he would be sending me to an endocrinologist, and it is probably the same guy the consultant mentioned so, either way I am seeing an endocrinologist! He also told me to come off my alfacalcidol for the rest of the week to bring my calcium down again and then when I go back on it, take one a day. The reason he's referring me to the endocrinologist to sort out this business with my dosage! I may ask this endocrinologist if there's something other than calcichews I could take!
The nausea is wearing off, too, so that's good! Onwards and upwards!
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