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[accidentalintrovert]

Clue x 4...

Clue x 4... I admit that sometimes I can be a little dense. It's less an awareness thing and more an OCD classification/categorization thing. Also occasionally an overthinking thing. #fibro #fibromyalgia #spoonie #spoons #fibrowarrior #spooniewarrior

I admit that sometimes I can be a little dense. It’s less an awareness thing and more an OCD classification/categorization thing. Also occasionally an overthinking thing. For example; when I was in law school I went to see the gynecologist for a routine checkup and spent 15 minutes agonizing over the question on the intake form “Could you be pregnant? Yes or No?” See, I was sexually active and…

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[accidentalintrovert]

My kinky side...

My kinky side…

I’ve lost ten pounds in the last nine days because I can’t eat more than a few hundred calories. Every day I can eat less than the day before because every day my stomach shrinks and my sense of feeling fuller happens after less food and my sense of “OMG I’m going to pull a Exorcist at the table” happens after fewer and fewer bites. Today it was half an avocado for breakfast. I didn’t even make…

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[stephen-han]

I feel like apologizing for not writing a whole lot, because there is a lot to write about but it's just so taxing physically and emotionally to do anything tangled up in tubes and straps in the hospital bed. I want to bring some good news, at least now and then, but there just hasn't been any. I find myself in 4th down territory here. My vital signs are good, but my situation is not sustainable. I'm still unable to take any food or drink by mouth. I get 100% of my nutrition intravenously. There is a time limit to this arrangement. I need to be able to take in enough to sustain my body, or eventually .. I won't. Four previous procedures to unblock my intestines have all resulted in more blockage being formed or discovered, so I'm left wondering how many more times I need to be cut open or can even handle. If I don't make it out of this situation, it won't be the cancer that does me in. It will have been complications from the treatment, which will really piss me off. Just learned that the O.R. is booked for Thursday now. I have to complete my will by then, and make some other arrangements. Depending on how the post op goes, it could be six or eight week's stay in here.