CRAZY TOWN WAITING ROOM - TESTS coming up? All Stages Welcome.

I am so sorry to hear M0mmy!

(((M0mmy)), you have had so much tragedy in your life lately. Holding you in my heart.

Hugs, Mommy. Maybe a small memorial display in your home?

M0mmy, at least that beats the 27-hour standstill on I-95 in NoVA! (Truly "no va"). On Valentine's night 1990, Bob got stuck for 7 hrs, on Lake Shore Dr. in a surprise snowstorm. It was so bad that passengers had to get out of a CTA bus and help the driver push it to the shoulder. We had a reservation at LaTour--cancelled. Took out a tenderloin roast, shook the snow off the grill lid....it got horribly overdone. The very next day we got our first cell phones.

Hello everyone.

I'm not sure where to post this, but I'm looking for some advice.

I was looking over some past scan results from this year and I'm feeling worried.

I've had 2 brain scans this year and thankfully no sign of mets.

But, there is mention of white matter disease, possible small vessel ischemic disease, or dylementation. The most recent scan from August mentions white matter change is greater than expected for someone my age.

I have switched MO'S a couple times this year, so I'm wondering if this got missed. It doesn't seem cancer related, so is it possible nothing was said because of that? I mean it sounds like maybe it's important? Has anyone dealt with this.....I'm gonna cross post.

Thx

Thank you for your thoughtful response Chisandy!

❤

Stay warm, dry and have someone on call to shovel!

Yup--here by the lake, the snow will start about 1 am and we'll get over 8" by the time the "lake plume" moves to IN & MI. Tomorrow night it'll dip down to zero again. And next week, between Tues. & Thurs, the forecast is for almost 22". Oh boy. So much for breaking quarantine,

To explain: Bob & I dined out together last Wed., Fri. & Sat. Sun. morning he had a scratchy throat & runny nose (greenish), so he rapid-tested and it came up positive. I immediately tested myself: negative. We've been hunkered down since then--he did get to go out Tues. to get a sotrovimab (monoclonal antibody) infusion and pick up fried chicken. While he was out, I re-tested with a different brand: negative again. He is feeling well and has been cleared to leave "house arrest," albeit masked (even around me) for five more days, going back to work Monday (if our garage can get dug out). I re-tested again today (yet another brand), and that was negative. No point in getting PCR-tested: I'm way past the incubation period and there's no way to get to a testing center anyway.

To catch up: later on the day I posted (1/27), my throat began to feel really scratchy, so I rapid-re-tested with yet another brand (OnGo): negative. For the first time I began to entertain the possibility of a false negative, or that I had come down with a flu strain that wasn't one of the four in this season's flu vaccine. Next morning (1/28) I actually felt a bit feverish, so used the other test in the OnGo kit: still negative. By then our landscaper had cleared our snow and de-iced, and the city plowed the side streets, so I could consider driving to Immediate Care for "real" testing. Next morning (1/29) my throat felt downright sore and though my oral temp was 98.9 (almost 2 degrees higher than my usual temp on arising), my ear thermometer registered over 100 for the first time. So I went to Immediate Care to get a flu test--they said my vitals were good but my throat looked reddish, so they gave me the PCR "brain stab." You guessed it: neg. for both strains of flu but COVID+. Later that day the infectious disease doc called me to set up a treatment--my antibody titer was too high for me to be considered immunocompromised so I didn't qualify for sotrovimab. Instead, I was prescribed Paxlovid. (I drove 20 mi. out to Glenbrook Hosp.'s outpatient pharmacy, pulled up curbside, phoned, masked up, and they literally tossed the bag through my open car window).

Here I am a week later, done with Paxlovid and officially rapid-tested (FlowFlex, considered accurate) negative two days running, and "released into the General Population" a couple of days ago. All my symptoms disappeared by the evening of 1/30, but am still getting some achy thighs from the Paxlovid (which will be out of my system by tomorrow and I can resume Crestor--not to mention my blood levels of Wellbutrin are starting to rise again so my mood is returning to normal).

Meanwhile, since 1/27 we got an additional foot of snow (good ol' "Lake Effect"), most of which has evaporated.

Chiberia today. Soaking rain (possible embedded thundstorms) and 50F Wednesday. Rain turns first to ice overmight and then snow....Snowmageddon-returns (at least a foot here by the lake) Thurs. and then ice cold again. Every time I marvel at how I managed to stay sane while stuck indoors for 2 months in spring 2020....I suddenly remember the snow and Arctic cold.

Recently got word on how my nephew died back in November. Was ruled “natural causes”.

This web site redesign gives a whole new meaning to the term "Crazy Town."

I agree..the re-design is awful.!!!!

Missed ya, Molly! Hope all is well.