Just popping in for an update. I'm still in school, although next week will be the last of the semester so it's a stressful time. But I've tried to be friendlier with my classmates at MU than I was at UMBC and I think I'm doing a pretty good job of being social.
I had my check-up with Dr. A last week. It went really well! I was a little sore from exercising (okay, Wii Fit, but come on, I was doing something) the day before but everything looked good. I've been doing so well that we've decided not to put me back on my medications, just the vitamin D because I continue to be deficient.
She had me set up an appointment in six months to make sure I'm still feeling well then, but she said I can cancel the appointment if I don't have any concerns.
Then she said something magical.
She said that if I don't have any problems, I don't have to go back. She'll be there if I need her but I don't have to go back.
I cannot express how incredible this is. I cannot tell you what it is like to have a doctor, one that I hated going to because she pressed on sore spots and gave me more pills and didn't understand, tell me that I'm well and I don't have to see her anymore. I feel like my health has turned completely around and I can't believe it.
She did point out that she doesn't know it won't come back. I'm being very realistic about this - it probably will come back at some point. But right now, I am well and I am healthy and I am not sick, I don't have to go to the doctor every three months or even see a specialist at all. I can use my Wii Fit for a half hour and I'm exhausted because I am in no kind of shape whatsoever but I have knowledge of a hundred types of pain and exercise doesn't give me any of the bad ones anymore.
I took almost two weeks off from school and went to Greece for a job. I climbed a steep, high hill every day for over a week and did intense work clearing land and searching the surface for artifacts, and it was awful sometimes but I was okay. I rested more than the others but I never reached a point where I had to sit down and say, "I can't do this."
I am well, and it is indescribably beautiful.
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| Yeah, this happened. Three of my classmates: Brian, Tabitha, and Kat. |
I had my check-up with Dr. A last week. It went really well! I was a little sore from exercising (okay, Wii Fit, but come on, I was doing something) the day before but everything looked good. I've been doing so well that we've decided not to put me back on my medications, just the vitamin D because I continue to be deficient.
She had me set up an appointment in six months to make sure I'm still feeling well then, but she said I can cancel the appointment if I don't have any concerns.
Then she said something magical.
She said that if I don't have any problems, I don't have to go back. She'll be there if I need her but I don't have to go back.
I cannot express how incredible this is. I cannot tell you what it is like to have a doctor, one that I hated going to because she pressed on sore spots and gave me more pills and didn't understand, tell me that I'm well and I don't have to see her anymore. I feel like my health has turned completely around and I can't believe it.
She did point out that she doesn't know it won't come back. I'm being very realistic about this - it probably will come back at some point. But right now, I am well and I am healthy and I am not sick, I don't have to go to the doctor every three months or even see a specialist at all. I can use my Wii Fit for a half hour and I'm exhausted because I am in no kind of shape whatsoever but I have knowledge of a hundred types of pain and exercise doesn't give me any of the bad ones anymore.
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| Sunset in Greece |
I took almost two weeks off from school and went to Greece for a job. I climbed a steep, high hill every day for over a week and did intense work clearing land and searching the surface for artifacts, and it was awful sometimes but I was okay. I rested more than the others but I never reached a point where I had to sit down and say, "I can't do this."
I am well, and it is indescribably beautiful.
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