Friday, 11 May 2012

Status Update - 11/5/12

Yesterday was an extremely bad day with all the symptoms of the previous intensified.  I pretty much spent the whole day asleep and concussed.  I was so badly off I even ordered from McDonald's. Although all I ate was their fries and their new strawberry, banana smoothie, I still woke up today all swollen and thirsty.  Sigh.

After copious mugs of green tea I felt sufficiently revived to do my supermarket trawl.


Bowel movements - improved considerable at 7.5/10.

Dermatitis check - It's worsened and the butterfly rash is back.  Looks like 13 mg of predisnone is not working out for me.  This totally sucks.

The bruising on the left inner elbow has gone back to being dark red and my right inner elbow seems to be empathetic as it is darkening to a slight bruise too.  My hip area developed a terrible itch and I was hard pressed not to scratch till bright red scratch lines developed.  The neck area also started itching and blistering along the neckline on the back.

Vision check - No lights today but I am still so tired so the eyes feel strained.  I may have to go take a nap soon.

Pain check - The back remains a 7/20 today but due to all the walking, at the last stretch, my left ankle and calf started hurting quite badly.  It was bad enough I was clutching at the rails on the roadside and a kind young lady looked concerned enough to offer to carry my shopping bag and try to hail a taxi for me to go home..

Hydration - Not too bad especially after I ate a whole starfruit for dessert after lunch.

Mystery sweet taste in mouth check - Not as obvious today but it could be because of the tart mouth syndrome from eating the starfruit.

Energy level - Was not too bad early in the morning at around 6.5/10.  After grocery shopping and the hot sun (God, today the sun was so bad I was huddling under my brolly and still I suffered), it dropped to about 4/10.  Extremely tired now.

Respiration check - Much improved.  The stuffy nose is almost gone but the head is still a little woozy.  The asthma attack stopped sometime yesterday night, thank God.

.I had 1/4 of the BBQ chicken I bought from Cold Storage for lunch, with a bowl of cheng tng and one starfruit for dessert.  My stomach feels pretty good so I am hoping the stomach flu or whatever it was has run its course.


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