Woe is me, the drama that is health

Ah a new day, a new blog entry. Once I had a rash of ideas for blog entries (that was before I actually had this blog) and now they've left me. Hopefully they'll be back someday when I'm up at 2 in the morning. I dunno if you all knew that, but I'd say I'm up in the wee hours of the night about once a week. What happens is that I fall asleep on the couch from about 8pm-12am, Jay wakes me up to see if I want to move upstairs, talks to me too much and I'm up for another 3 hours or so. It's cool though I kinda like it. I watch late night TV and clean the house a little. It's also when I do my best work on report cards if it's that season.

Anyhow, let's talk about health. If you know me at all you know about my belly problems, ew. And you might even know that I usually have some other random complaint too. Well, as for the belly I am SO super optimistic about an appointment I have with the head of the GI department at our local hospital next week. As soon as I got the appointment I began dreaming about life without IBS, and all the wonderful fried, gooey, nasty, delicious junk food I'd eat. Well the only reason that my hopes are sky high is because we discovered that I might have something call H pylori, which is curable. Curable! This is the first of the many tests that I've had over the 21 years that I've had IBS that actually came back positive and it's something that is curable!! Yea, my hopes are way too high. I just know that the doctor's gonna say that I had H pylori, but it's gone now and I'll have IBS forever. On one hand it's really not the worst chronic pain or health problem to have, but on the other hand it is embarrassing, painful, frustrating, and limits my life. I actually can't go places or do things sometimes because I need to be near a bathroom, again, ew.

Ya know how you always hear stories about people with like cancer or something and people say they never complained or asked "why me?" Yea, I so don't think I'm one of those people. I'd like to think I was, but look at me complaining about this...Anyhow, I'm hoping to get a test (the one where the tube goes down your throat) and get more info about this possible H pylori.

And here's this week's minor health issue: the knuckle on my right hand has been sore for a week and I didn't bang it or anything. Well, this concerns me (as all my minor health issues do, headache = brain tumor, mole = skin cancer, etc.) as I really don't want to add arthritis to my chronic health problems, and of course, that's my first assumption. So hopefully I'll get a chance to see my folks today and get their opinion on it. I'll try to keep you all posted on these issues as I'm sure you're on the edge of your seats.
Rock on!