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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Peregrinus: [QB] Forget your leg, Jason. I'd have them look t your head. It's obviously rotting from the inside out. :p Well, Updates-Ya-Us (a literal reading of the backwards 'R' in the Toys-R-Us name). I'm trying to figure out what the hell is going on with my Social Security. My state DSHS caseworker mentioned, while he was looking up something else, that it appeared my Social Security medical coverage had been approved. Couple days later, I got a letter sayng my appeal for SSI had been re-denied. I'm going in to my local SS office next Friday to present my case, and if that doesn't go anywhere, my step-father has secured a lawyer. They say they can't establish my condition back to October 2004, which is curious, because they never said anything about the history of my condition. They only wanted to know from my doctors if they believed it would be at least a year from my first application before I'd be able to work again. WTF? And for the record, in October of 2004, I had already been waiting for a month to get in to see my first doctor in this Trek -- an appointment that I wouldn't have until late December. But in October, I was seriously starved, badly emaciated, and hauling around some twenty pounds (give or take) of edema. My chiropractor and my Hellerworker could both tell them that I was most definitely not well. But I don't know if their opinions count. Yesterday was my last dose of the daptomycin.I am anxiously awaiting the ebbing of all my frikkin' side effects.They took blood for cultures last Wednesday, and I haven't heard anything yet. They've even called me on a Saturday morning -- when the clinic is closed -- to let me know of past positive results. I can only hope that 72 hours without a phone call means negative for staph. I had a strong hunch that when they pulled the old line, the staph was in there. I think another two-week round of dapto was then overkill, but I went along with it -- even though two months on powerful antibiotics don't just kill all the microorganisms, they start killing the macroorganism, too! Case in point: my previous commentary about when I went into hospital a couple weeks back... My bloodwork was in the basement and I had dropped from my pre-antibiotic 165 pounds to 154. By the time I left the hospital, four transfusions later, I was back up to 165. I am now hovering at 151, and my bloodwork is tumbling down the basement stairs again. The last time it got bed, I had been off the dapto for four days, so I don't expect miracles just by being off the antibiotics. I just hope I can turn this around without having to go into hospital again. As for new perspectives, I have no less than six doctors -- three specialists and three primary-care physicians -- following my case. The gamus from naturopathic to allopathic is well-represented. My cousin's doctor for his Ulcerative Colitis said -- in Minneapolis -- that if you're going to get some form of IBD, Seattle is the best place to have it. One of the consultants on my case is a gastroenterologist who has been in practise for 25 years and is nationally known. He's the one who identified and located the fistula. He's only seen two other cases like mine in his career. I'm also deriving great benefit from energy work, reiki, massage, and psychotherapy. I've got a lot of backed-up mental and emotional sludge that needs breaking up and expressing/resolving. Some from almost thirty years ago. This is a totally multifaceted treatment. I'm even learning Transcendental Meditation to help me with my persistant background stress and quick temper. But I am absolutely through with antibiotics, thank you. If another infection pops up, I'm gonna find some other way. This shit was slowly killing me. And interfering with my ability to attend to other aspects of my treatment. Jay, I'm glad they caught it early. Here's hoping there are no malfunctions with the Gamma Knife that give you uncontrollable superpowers, or turn you green or anything... Jason, I don't lie to anybody about anything. Besides, while I'm dealing with all this, I'm living with my mom and step-dad. Hard to keep much from them, especially when I need the help of one or another of them to change out my meds and stuff each day, seeing as I am minus one arm due to the new PICC. And Liz... I don't know if I'm falling prey to the human instinct for pattern recognition, but swollen optic nerves were a symptom of my condition, too. Actually, edema rather than inflammation, but they were bleached out, as well. I dunno. I just read that and went "hey...!" I hope this line of enquiry doen't turn out to be a red herring. You deserve some relief. Healing mojo to all, --Jonah [/QB][/QUOTE]
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