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Don't ever get comfortable
Oct. 20th, 2003 10:48 amOh no, don't dare get comfortable.
The tests from last week (the ultrasound and EGD) both came back negative. No word from the doctor on what that means - no word on why I've been feeling like absolute shit for months and months - but I have my suspicions. I suspect it's been the migraine medication, topamax. So I'm going off the topamax, now. I may see an improvement in how my stomach feels, but now I have nothing to ward off all those migraines. Of course, the topa wasn't preventing every migraine, anyway. I am scheduled to go in for one more uncomfortable and invasive test at the end of the month. If this was all due to the topa, why should I go through with it?? The doctor won't talk to me about the results until I get there, so I still have to prep for the test. . . this is fucking ridiculous. I want my body back.
I'm still waiting for reimbursements from my insurance company, who now owes me and my doctor far more than $1000.
And I just found out that the teaching job I thought I had lined up for next semester has been yanked. Clay wants me to teach for somebody else so I can get more exposure, more recommendations. That's fine and dandy, I just wish we'd discussed this earlier. Now I have to figure out what, and for whom.
Lecture course, virology?
Lab course, microbiology?
I'm working on the revisions to my manuscript and am making good progress. I need to get more done with my poster for the meeting. We leave in 10 days. The poster should be easy, I just need to finish it.
A week after my return from the meeting (I'll be gone for 9 days), I'm going out of town again for a few nights to run an experiment in a lab up at Purdue.
Like I said, don't ever get comfortable. I simply can't. :-/
The tests from last week (the ultrasound and EGD) both came back negative. No word from the doctor on what that means - no word on why I've been feeling like absolute shit for months and months - but I have my suspicions. I suspect it's been the migraine medication, topamax. So I'm going off the topamax, now. I may see an improvement in how my stomach feels, but now I have nothing to ward off all those migraines. Of course, the topa wasn't preventing every migraine, anyway. I am scheduled to go in for one more uncomfortable and invasive test at the end of the month. If this was all due to the topa, why should I go through with it?? The doctor won't talk to me about the results until I get there, so I still have to prep for the test. . . this is fucking ridiculous. I want my body back.
I'm still waiting for reimbursements from my insurance company, who now owes me and my doctor far more than $1000.
And I just found out that the teaching job I thought I had lined up for next semester has been yanked. Clay wants me to teach for somebody else so I can get more exposure, more recommendations. That's fine and dandy, I just wish we'd discussed this earlier. Now I have to figure out what, and for whom.
Lecture course, virology?
Lab course, microbiology?
I'm working on the revisions to my manuscript and am making good progress. I need to get more done with my poster for the meeting. We leave in 10 days. The poster should be easy, I just need to finish it.
A week after my return from the meeting (I'll be gone for 9 days), I'm going out of town again for a few nights to run an experiment in a lab up at Purdue.
Like I said, don't ever get comfortable. I simply can't. :-/
