My fever isn’t too bad….but I feel way worse than I should with a temperature of 100.8. Probably because my temp is usually 96 or 97. I feel a heck of a lot sicker than I should. My face feels hotter than 100.8. I have a headache, creepy skin, all-over body aches, painful eyeballs and every once in awhile in seconds, I go from burning up to chills….painful chills.
I wrote that and went to bed at 6 PM. Then I went through hours and hours of high fever interspersed with bone shaking chills that caused yet more killer cramps. I woke up at 3 AM, overdue for meds and soaking wet in a very damp bed. At first I felt much better from the fever breaking. As I am awake, pain is coming back. Ohhhhhh, my gosh! That was a night of torture! It’s incredible just how cold I can get from such intense chills. After being awake for an hour, the fever and chills have both ramped up. I feel very unwell 😦
Went back to bed at 6 AM and woke up at 9. Once again, the longer I am awake, the higher my fever gets. Right now (11:30) my belly is very hot. It was raining most of the night and has been snowing hard for hours. The sidewalks are impassable. I am back to a very sore and swollen tongue. That’s what woke me up and it’s still annoying the heck out of me. 10 days until I see the tongue doctor.
EVERYTHING I have read makes it sound like leaving a hernia like mine totally untreated is a big mistake. If I ever get out of here, it will be interesting to see what the next state’s healthcare system will say. I don’t want to die in Utah…I would rather die somewhere nicer. I went online and made an appointment with the doc a block from here. I have not seen him since November 3rd. His office is finally up and running again. Just what I need….another doc crying over me. Sigh….
I love watching Olive watching snow. Earlier, the flakes were in humongous globs. She sits in the window, looking straight up. Every once in awhile, she will follow a glob to the ground with her eyes. She looks mesmerized.
Saturday’s breakfast. Onion .30, mushrooms .40, Mexican squash .23, tomato .26, avocado .20, 2 eggs .58, Swiss-Gruyere cheese $1, salsa verde .30, coconut oil .15 for a total of $3.42.
Sunday’s breakfast. 2 sausages .75, 2 hashbrown patties .38, 2 eggs .58, avocado .20, Swiss-Gruyere cheese $1, salsa verde mixed with Sriracha bbq sauce .30, coconut oil .15 for a total of $3.36. So, breakfast each day, for the last few days, has cost more than my whole day’s worth of SNAP money. Good thing it fills me up so I can skip a meal.
Chicken taco salad supper. Chicken breast $1.17, onion .30, mushrooms .40, mixed frozen pepper strips .34 , kidney beans free, corn free, 3 corn tortillas .25, avocado .75, 2 radishes .10, Roma tomato .26, cilantro .10, sour cream .25, 1/2 lime .14, coconut oil .15, seasonings .10….for a total of $4.31. It was the best thing that I have eaten in a long time 🙂 I was inspired to make it because I watched a video from Tasty. Scroll down to Southwestern Taco Salad. I’ll be darned if I can figure out how to link to it on facebook! https://www.facebook.com/buzzfeedtasty/
I fried 3 tortillas in coconut oil and broke them up. Put on the plate. Add chicken dices to hot pan. When mostly cooked, I added onion, mushrooms, pepper strips and el monte sazonador para carnes. When that was cooked, I added some corn and beans and heated through. In the food processor, I whizzed together half an avocado, a third of a bunch of cilantro, half a lime of juice, maybe a quarter cup of sour cream, and Tejin seasoning. I put the hot mix on the tortilla shards, put diced/sliced 1/2 avocado, a tomato and 2 radishes on top, then covered with glops of dressing. Mmmmmm….
Olive has been relaxing. She is slightly miffed that I have had the bedroom door closed for hours. That’s because I have the window wide open to try to air out all that vinegar sweat.
We just hit the high of the day at 36 degrees around 4:30 PM….and it promptly started snowing again. Crazy weather!
Wendy The Wanderer 
Have you ever tried taking a benadryl for your swollen tongue? I have allergies real bad and one of my prime reactions is a swollen tongues. I got bit by a spider (I think) in the middle of the night a couple of weeks ago. What woke me up was my tongue so swollen it wouldn’t fit inside my teeth and my teeth were going into my tongue. I then noticed a swelling on my index finger and figured I got bit by something. I took a benadryl and sat up for about 30 minutes till it could take affect. It slowly made my tongue swelling go down. two hours later it wasn’t completely normal yet so I took another benadryl. That did the trick. Do you have allergies at all?
I am allergic to “everything”….just like my mother was. Daily for allergies, I take the generic form of Zyrtec. I rarely take Benadryl. I usually only take Benadryl as a premed before IVIg, when I am also getting IV solumedrol (steroid). Benadryl is one of the meds to be used with caution for people with myasthenia gravis. It makes us weaker. I am allergic to contrast dye for CT scans. Last time I took a Benadril with 150 mg of prednisone in order to get the dye. Basically, I usually only take Benadryl when I am also taking a steroid, as the steroid protects me. Such a PITA!
It will be interesting to see what the tongue doc says. The internist was worried about cancer.
Yes…my tongue swells like yours. It won’t fit between my teeth. It also blocks my airway.
My dentist also thought I had oral cancer when he saw mine. But through the years and many doctors we finally figured out it was allergies. I’m highly allergic also. I went to an allergist last year. He tested me for 52 things and I was allergic to 48. I even had a severe allergy reaction with the testing! Contrast dye also for me. I can’t have it at all. I had a kidney stone and they did the dye. I had hives that were so large that one covered my entire abdomen then I went into total anaphylactic shock.I had about 20 people around me. I heard the nurse outside my room afterwards tell the oncoming nurse “we barely saved this one”. I don’t take Benadryl on a regular basis but I do carry it with me always. It’s the only thing that will get my tongue to go down. Something I never realized till recently is that dramamine has an antihistimine or is one. I take that for veritigo. I will pray for something to change so that you can get more appropriate medical care. It’s insane what you have to go through. It’s bad enough that you have these things wrong with you but adding insult to injury by the system not allowing you to get the proper care you need is outrageous!
I hate allergy testing. Once they turned my back into a grid and did the same to both arms. I was allergic to a whole lot of things. In the 80’s, I went into anaphylactic shock a bunch of times, then not again. Did you see the tongue pics here? Do you ever have white outlines around the sore spots? That’s a new one for me. https://wendythewanderer.wordpress.com/2015/12/11/it-doesnt-take-much/
Yup……soooooooo tired of being jerked around with healthcare. It’s never easy, but Utah is the pits.
Yes, I had those same white around the sore spots on the side of my tongue. In fact, when the dentist thought I had oral tongue cancer I had a huge growth looking thing on the side of my tongue. I had a new addiction to my eating>> Mr Good bars. When dentist set up appt with tongue cancer specialist I decided to quit eating the mr goodbars–that was the only thing I was doing differently. I quit, took benadryl and it completely went away. Bizarre. I agree with the other commenter–benadryl does tend to make most people sleepy. I usually try to only take it at night unless I have a severe allergic reaction then it’s a life saver.
When I was living in the Adirondacks and getting IVIg in Vermont, I almost always fell asleep from the Benadryl premed. I considered that a perk 🙂 It takes many boring hours to finish an infusion. I have tried andf tried to figure out my tongue soreness. Whatever it is, I hope the doc knows. I just woke up with my tongue very sore.
I agree, I think something has to be done about your hernia before it gets even worse. Is the new doctor a family doctor? I looked up that hospital that you said that you had not gone to and it seems to be a research hospital. They have colon and (? I can’t remember what) doctors). That was the closest I saw to a hernia doctor. I do know that you need to see a doctor who does this kind of hernia operation all the time. Experience is an absolute must for any operation that is not simple and with important health consequences. If that doctor you are going to see refers you, he must pick one who is an expert and has lots of experience. Without that experience, he will not know how to approach the operation.
OK, have something important to add, Hope that your tongue doctor is on the ball, there are lots of different causes. Diabetes, hypothyrodism, amyloidosis and lot of other ones that aren’t as serious. Will pray that it is one of the easy to take care of things.
I can’t take Benedryl because knocks me out. I cannot stay awake with it. I am instantly asleep. I bet that is a common result.
I took some time out this afternoon and looked up what words were a part of the title of the pictures of the endoscopy and colonoscopy. Just looking at, (I will find out if I have right tomorrow) I have an inflamed esophaghas, inflamed stomach and inflammed colon. It doesn’t look that bad by degree but there seems ro be a theme going on. I also seem to have inflammatory arthritis, inflammed eyes, inflammed and spleen, my NP is also an inflammation of a sort (hot, red and swollen). Now loosing my hair due to methotrexate and I can see my scalp is red. I wonder if everything could rolled into one diagnosis, inflammed body . Tomorrow, I have the appointment.
I clicked on tasty and found that 18 of my friends had liked that page. And my cousin who died last week and her daughter! I watched some of the videos. I love it when they come up with something great and it looks easy.
Both Intermountain and U of Utah are research hospitals. The U is a medical school. The only new doc is the tongue doc. He is a ENT and dentist. The old doc I have an appointment with this coming week is a GP. I can only go through the ER at random hospitals, otherwise I have to go to the U or its affiliates. The U usually sucks. I was reading my last endoscopy and it said I had gastritis. I don’t remember anyone telling me that. It’s the usual…nobody cares in Utah. My perpetually high SED rate and CRP means I specialize in inflammation, too.
I hope your appointment goes well.
I like watching Tasty videos. I wish it was really that quick to cook 🙂
I have gastritis too. There is another autiimmune disease that could be. Autoimmune gastrits. Have that one. Got the PPI prescription and the prescription for IBS-D. He couldn’t figure out why I have chronic diarrhea. Lots of polyps, one adenoma, go back for the procedures again three years Rectal biopsy did not show amloid but had clumps of autoummune cells. I looked up the name and they said not many studies, it is possibly a precursor to cancer, ulcerative colitis or diverticulosis. They just don’t know. So cast closed for three years.
I am worried about your tongue. I hope that your appointment turns out alright.
12 day with no appointments.YAY!
12 days with no appointments? In January I saw the licensed clinical social worker on the 7th and 21st. Internist on the 13th. Will see the GP on the 27th and on February 3rd, it’s the ENT. That’s a pretty tame month. I am soooo weary today. Another great battle is going on in my body. Sigh…..