Utter Failures

So this is a departure from normal blogging style to just talk about medical tests for a minute. Because I've had a lot of them. You all know about my fibro diagnosis and that whole process. It involved like... seriously a billion tests. Seriously. And all were negative. Every. Single. One. Which is good -- don't get me wrong. It's good. I'm glad. But it's frustrating when the answer is always "nope, it's not that. *shrug." During that process, I had ultrasounds, cat scans, bloodwork, celiac tests, a colonoscopy, and even heart tests. Fibro is weird and the symptoms are all over the place, hence the randomness of the tests. Anyway, since then, I've had a lot more tests as other new things have come up. More heart tests (the echocardiogram is super cool, honestly), more bloodwork, and so on. Most recently, the doctor thought that, unrelated to any of that, my gallbladder was probably crapping out on me because I'm in my mid-30s and femal

The past few weeks have been crazy! I haven’t blogged mainly because I just haven’t had time or energy to do it. I’ve been exhausted.  We went to DragonCon, which was a blast, but I had been having stomach pain for a few weeks off and on and had that kind of in the background. We got back in town and had to take Bastian for a quick ear check because he’s fighting a cold. I also got the cold. And then our water heater and dryer decided they would also be calling in sick.  Our wonderful kind friends helped us with drying clothes and warm showers/baths, which was such a gift. And both appliances were fixable, which saved us so much money. So glad Jeremy is good at fixing things! I mentioned in a Facebook post that when things break, I tend to throw in the towel. “Oh well, guess we’ll have to buy a new one. And remodel the house while we’re at it!” Jeremy just makes a trip to Home Depot, gets out his drill, and goes to work.  Anyway, that was the weekend after Labor Day. Then