dentures repaired. I still don't wear them for terribly long, just out of precaution. once things get better sorted out I may test the gradual increase of wear to see if that changes anything.
I still have to blow my nose after eating most times, and get a slightly juicy cough on occasion too.
I sort of had a 'to heck with it day'. I'd been planning some taste tests for things on my youtube channel that I knew were likely to make me digestively upset before all this. I'd stocked up and the expiry date was coming along on a few of them. I seem to have hit or miss health days anyway, so I figured take a day and eat junk for the camera.
I tried: Pumpkin spice golden oreos, cinnamon bun flavored golden oreos, birthday cake flavored golden oreos, Red velvet cake oreos, cream filled chocolate cupcake oreos, Peppermint oreos, Plain mint oreos, Lemon flavored oreos, and reeses peanutbutter chocoalte cream oreos.
I then had to stop for about 3 hours and lay down for fear of vomiting. all but 3 of them I only had half of them, so I had about 6 total oreos. The thought on my mind half way through was how mind boggling it is that some people tastes can allow them that level of sickeningly sweet without destroying themselves.
Given a bit of recovery time I went into some Goldfish brand graham crackers flavors: strawberry shortcake, fudge brownie, vanilla cupcake, honey graham, cinnamon graham, and s'more. These were a much more tolerable level of snack. I think they even had enough substance that they cut some of the sweet in my system.
I finished off but eating some lentils and beef to really anchor things a bit better. Later I broke out some tortilla chips that were lime flavored (an old favorite that I've apparently grown out of in the intervening years of not being able to eat them).
Two days later I only was a little bit unwell digestively, not even really sick. Sigh, figures. Nutritionally worthless, sure have gobs of it; need it to not be malnourished, lets make it set your skin on fire, your muscles and joints ache, or maybe your digestive system will think you have food poisoning.
Had a referral from the pcp to a neurologist. they called me at the dentist and asked if I would rather some time in late June, or the next morning at 8am. Um, jee, let me think... so I stayed up all night to make an 8 am appointment. She ran some blood tests for things like Lupus, Sarcoidosis, MS, Lyme Disease, zinc deficiency and a few I've never heard of before (the results 'should' be in by the weeks end). did some checking of balance, muscle strength and reflex ect. She initially felt that was good enough but over the next day set in a referral for an MRI for me. I'll need to get that set up in the next few days.
But pretty much since then I had some really great days with no symptoms and a sense I might be getting better. Then last night I went to cook up the last of the ground beef I've been eating at every meal for about a week and a half. and there were little green bits in it. whoever ground it didn't clean out the machine between uses. with me reacting to everything I couldn't chance it, but every store in the state was closed at that point. I resorted to some of the shrimp I had in the freezer.
Woke up before I should have this morning. feeling jittery, and depressed... and for the first time in almost a week my tongue and lip feeling tingly numb for the first several hours of the day. It was a rainy cold and grey day, which can be kind of beautiful sometimes but my mood wasn't having any of that. I went to the store and exchanged the meat, and was feelings tired and achey from that short trip. But weirder still it felt like I'd been walking on concrete floor for 12 hours by the time I got back (It was less than twenty minutes.
My mind and anxiety started suggesting the lip and tongue may be mini-strokes from clots in my legs drifting free. I told myself to kindly shut up

. Homocystiene can cause increased atherosclerosis and risk of stroke and embolisyms ect, but I've been having the lip/tongue issue since before the neurologist and she saw no signs of impaired function, and I will be getting an MRI, so we will get the answers on that score when that time comes. No point in freaking out about maybe possibilities. Just, you know, watch for the symptoms of a full blown stroke or leg clot.
But it's not helping my mood much today, and setbacks tend to taint joys when we are symptom free.
If all goes well I'm giving the rest of the oreos away to some friends tomorrow, head up to visit family on the weekend and I may go see a movie with another friend in a week. I can't just sit here waiting for test results and appointments.
But that's just my cruddy mood today. Yesterday I was constructing elaborate art project plans and story plots for novels I planned to write. Hopefully with the beef back in the diet I can get myself back into a good place to do some things that I enjoy while we wait for test results and schedule an MRI (then wait on those results).