Saturday, July 31, 2004

Update on Joint Pain and .....

I don't really have much to report except that I did go to the doctors yesterday and he sent me for x-rays of my hands/fingers, knees and ankles. He also send me for a number of labs. They are: Lyme disease, CBC w/diff, C-reactive Protien, Rheumatoid Factor and Sed Rate. I had all this done on Friday after I left the doctors office. I am hoping that he gets everything back early enough on Monday so I don't have to wait to long to find out what is going on.
Unfortunately, I went and read about the blood test and some of the things they can tell from them is actually scary. What my doctor is really looking for is different causes of inflammation but there are a number of reasons that can cause this.
I did get somewhat some good news. My cholesteral results also came back and we went over those. Though the numbers are still high, the triglycerides are no where as high as they were before. I still have to watch what I eat but from what my doctor told me he can't put me on any meds for my cholesteral because of my other meds
And now for something that has me totally weirded out:
My daughter and I figured out today that I must be sleepwalking. I have no idea if this is something I have done before or if this was the only time.
I'm pretty sure I was asleep and dreaming when I vividly remember seeing my daughters flip-flops in the garbage. I didn't remember this until later in the day when she was looking for them. I told her to look there but she couldn't imagine why she would throw them out. So, when she was cleaning out my car, I went and took them out of the garbage and clean them off.
There other thing that happened is in the upstairs bathroom, there was a photo album on the sink. I asked Becky if she got up and used the upstairs bathroom during the night and she didn't. This must mean, since I was sleeping on the couch, I went upstairs, probably went to the bathroom and for whatever reason, brought the photo album into the bathroom. I will swear on a stack of bibles, I touched neither of those objects.
That's it for now.....

1 comment:

Bonnie said...

Your story about sleep walking reminded me of a funny story about my ex-husband. His father was on a diet at the time and every morning there would be food missing from the refrigerator. Of course, they blamed the father accusing him of cheating on his diet after everyone went to bed. So, one night, his mother stayed up and what did she see? Her son, not only sleep walking, but sleep eating! He walked to the refrigerator, opened it, ate standing there with the door open, closed it and went back to bed. When she told him in the morning he didn't remember it, of course, but at least the mystery was solved.