CT scan results and other more interesting things.

I was badly ill which was a large portion of what happened to my job. I haven't been so sick since I had a monster flu when I was like 10 years old. My head feels like someone has an air compressor hooked up inside my head and just keeps pumping. I've been having odd issues breathing for well over a year and a half. After being put on 4 allergy medications at the same time and seeing no change I pretty well knew it had to be something else. What? That I still didn't have an answer to. Right as I began training for my job I got a bug. Flu or what I have no idea but it triggered my breathing and head pain problems to just go above and beyond what my body could stand. I went to see my doctor thinking maybe I had a sinus infection. He said it looked as if I did have one and put me on a normal week or so set of antibiotics. After I finished them there was really no change to speak of. He sent me to an ENT who then ordered a CT of my head. And this is where my nightmare began. I have had many CT scans MRI scans and X-rays over the years. I imagine my parents felt I was the most accident prone demon child on earth. So I knew what I was in for... A tight tube and being uncomfortable for an hour or so and spending 2 years of my life just trying to get the IV in my arm. The scan actually was not bad the poor woman just could not my vein to come up in my arm so she put it in my hand. (I always ask them to put it in my hand because of that.) She was super friendly and said sorry for the discomfort and are you alright well over 30 times. The horror came after the scan. On Friday night the ENT called me and said that it was very important that I come in on Monday when she had the full results of the scan. The preliminary results showed a mass in my Maxillary sinus on one side. The entire weekend I was scared to death I had cancer. I went in on Monday and she showed me the scan... I'm no doctor but to my shock I could plainly see there was A LOT wrong with my scan. She went on to explain what each of my "abnormalities" were on the screen. My sinuses are way bigger then a normal person about 2 1/2 times larger. One side was about 90% filled with this mass. She thought it was a huge infection so she put me on a 6 week dose of antibiotics. Unfortunately for me that is only the first thing that was wrong on the scan. My nose is badly broken on the inside my airway on one side that is meant to be relatively straight up from my nose looks more like a fish hook. And I have tonsillitis to cap off all that lovely news. I was diagnosed with chronic sinusitis, chronic tonsillitis and a badly deviated septum! When I am finished with the rest of this antibiotic I will need surgery to removed my tonsils and to fix my nose so I can breathe right again. The end of Monday night the pain had just exploded. I called the ENT and got one of her office staff and told her what was going on and that I wanted to speak to the doctor. She said well we aren't giving you any more medicine and hung up the phone. I wanted to talk to the doctor and just tell her what was going on with me and ask if this pain could say BE A POSSIBLE WARNING THAT THINGS ARE GETTING WORSE!? I just could not get a hold of her. Her office staff is rude and fully and completely incompetent. So I called my general care doctor who is amazing. He was on vacation (I already knew that) so I spoke to his partner. She was very helpful and put me on some major pain killers so that I could actually do anything. The pain is so bad without the medication that the moment I woke up I wished I was dead. I was screaming and just falling into a bad depressed state because I couldn't even lie down to sleep because it was to hard to breathe lying down. All I could to without the medication was sit in the chair and try my best not to cry because that made the pain even worse. With the antibiotic and pain killers the pain is manageable but I hate having to take medication. Even more when it's a very major pain killer. Right now all I hope is that the antibiotics are actually helping the mass shrink and that the infection goes away so that I can get the surgery I need.


That's what I've been up to the last few weeks here.


I went out to the pet store to get some new chew toys and stuff for my animals and then went out to dinner with my Mom at the Outback Steakhouse. I have been going there since I was a kid. Before my family got into a money crunch when my grandfather fell ill we would go there and I would do my homework after school. I like many of the things served there. The Cheese Fries, Bloomin Onion, Prime Rib, Outback Special, Victoria Fillet  and Alice Springs Chicken are very good. They also make a sundae called a Cinnamon Apple Oblivion.

I took some pictures for you guys. The dessert I have photos of is a "mini" Cinnamon Apple Oblivion. The steak is an Outback special. And the sauce is the "bloom sauce" (The orange sauce.)Which is an odd horseradish and something cream sauce and their home made ranch. The ranch sauce is excellent it has some chilli powder of some kind in it which gives cool home made ranch a nice kick I love it.


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