Stamina.

Last week, (2.9.09), I had my umpteenth c.t. scan on my abdomen.
For those lucky enough not to have had the experience, it requires you to fast and be nil by mouth at least 3 hours before hand.

You can have fluids like water.
You are sometimes required to drink a thing called ‘contrast fluid’, (poison), it makes the part of your body being scanned illuminate to the scanner.
This fluid not only tastes wrong but it damages the kidneys so you have to flush it out afterwards by drinking lots of water.

I have had so many scans since April 08 I loathe it.
They are life saving procedures, but before I became ill in April last year, I assumed I may have a few scans when my body decided it had enough from old age, but now they are part of my everyday life.

The worst by far is a thing called the p.e.t scan. (like a really powerful m.r.i. scan that scans the entire body)
You fast for a few hours and are injected with nuclear sugar based dye and told to lye down in a very dark room for 30 – 40 minutes and then onto the p.e.t. scanner.

If my dysfunction doesn’t get me the radiation and the toxins will.


After that I went to see my treating Neurologist Dr. Williams, I had an m.r.i. scan of my brain about 2 months back, so I saw him about that and a few other things too.

I am on a medication called Gabapentin, like an anti - epileptic, although I am not epileptic in any way, it's one of the ways how my illness is treated. (ironic that i'm slow enough and the medication makes me even slower)

The plan is to gradually increase my dosage.
The side effect is super fatigue.
So when I would normally have energy to write I have been overcome by lethargy the past week.
It takes about 6 - 7 weeks for my body to get used to the dosage, 900 mg 3 times a day.

Dr. Williams also thought that there had been some deterioration in my cerebellum according to my last m.r.i. but the official test result hadn't come in.

That may be irrelevant if that is the case, as I still continue to adapt.