Hepatitis What?!

Well after one look at me, my Doctor and his nurse have taken to calling me the Banana. They do however promise to get me back to being a Peach. It's definitely not Carotene. Time for labs!



They suspect it's Hepatitis, so if it is, it has to be Hep A. I don't sleep with men that sleep with other men (unless there's something my husband isn't telling me), I haven't had a transfusion and I don't use dirty needles (only sterile needles for my drug use:-)!



Now I'm quarantined for a week with daytime TV!!

Projectile Vomiting

After reliving the famous "Pea Soup" scene from the exorcist this weekend, I Email my Dr again and make an appt for Tuesday.

They call me Mellow Yellow...

Well the Jaundice is very pronounced. I Emailed my Doctor and he thinks it is Carotene from the vitamins I have been taking. I tell him that the vitamins I take don't even have Carotene, but he says wait a week and call him if it's not better by next Friday.

Are my contacts dirty?...

I looked in the mirror this morning and noticed that I look like a summer squash! I have morphed into a yellowish looking special effects project.

Maybe I need a shrink??

Follow Up with Allergist. Itching has been somewhat relieved, but is still there. For now, nothing else to do. All labs are still normal.



I'm starting to think I'm developing some weird Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, maybe I need to see a shrink.

Possible Cause of my Hodgkin's Disease...

For the last 8 years I have dealt with numerous afflictions ranging from fatigue to pain. My Doctor's were always saying I had a weak immune system, but couldn't figure out why. For those of you familiar with the movie "A Civil Action" starring John Travolta(for more information, go to our Links page), you may be surprised to know that I spent some of my formidable years prior to age 5 in the same neighborhood where all the kids were dying from predominantly Acute Lymphatic leukemia. Had I stayed, many of these kids would have been my classmates and friends. My husband and I did some research on the chemicals involved with the lawsuit and did find research to support that early exposure to these chemicals can manifest in symptoms in the late teen and early adulthood years. While this is not the cause of the Hodgkin's Disease, no one knows what causes it, the suppressed immune system for so many years is a contributing factor.