Friday, January 31, 2014

Dr. update

I had my biopsy and Praise the Lord no thyroid cancer, so that is done. I went to the headache neurologist and she was great, she really thinks that my stroke came from taking estrogen, I was only on it for a month but then that crazy eye thing happened and I took myself off it.  She said that was a blessing in disguise, because more than likely I could have had a worse incident had I stayed on the medicine, so another Praise the Lord. She is now trying to get the migraines under control, she put me on medicine that is powerful, I took the first dose at bedtime and it took me until 12 the next day to see straight. I will be cutting the dose in half. I also have to keep a diary of my daily headaches for a month, along with once again giving up certain foods that I love to see if these are the problems.  I laughed a year ago and told friends, God has seen fit to allow me to be allergic to shellfish, my most favorite thing to eat, and I hope he doesn't take away chocolate, peanut butter and cokes.  Well you guessed right, those are only 3 of the things that can be trigger foods, also avocados, pintos, peas, onions, soy, MSG, bananas, raspberries, plums, fancy breads, cheese, pork of any kind, and my favorite meat of all bacon, I know its a pork product but I think of it as steak. I love all these foods I usually every morning eat a banana and peanut butter for breakfast with a coke. Now you see why my world is turned up-side down.  I am having to rethink everything.
Now on to rest of family, Audrey had a 200 food blood test done this week to see what all she is allergic to, her body is so out of whack, and she has also been pretty sick , but you have to understand Audrey has always been sick, all her life, she saw a specialist this week and she told her that most of her problems her whole life she will bet comes from her being allergic to foods that she has been eating. She knows she is allergic to wheat now, she stopped eating that about a month ago and saw a tremendous change in her skin and stomach issues. However now they definitely want her to go off dairy and if you ever knew Audrey she lives off cheese so she is trying to figure out what to eat now.
She is a very OCD eater so this is going to be a challenge. We are very curious to what all she is allergic to and can't wait to see how getting off all this stuff will make her feel. She has never, ever really felt good since birth and I don't think she will know what it will feel like to wake up pain free, I have been thankful for her high pain tolerance, but I think it has somewhat messed her up because until she feels pass the point bad will she do anything about her pain.
Wesley is set up to see a new neurologist for a second opinion, to make sure that they didn't over look the MS with the first doctor.  His family Dr. says that sometimes a MS doctor is so confident that they overlook some patients at first. So he is hopefully going in the next couple weeks.
Praise the Lord that Joey, Josh, Abby & Harper are happy and healthy.  They can take care of all of us....Yeah right!!!!

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