Health update

Found myself curled up on cold marble in another dense, slow, sweaty fainting spell today. Called my long time friend who’s heard most of my medical woes, and used to be an EMT. He came by and checked me out, did a very basic SKAT test involving short term memory, poked around at my kidneys, checked my eyes, etc.

I failed the memory test miserably, have a swollen tender kidney and strange pupil contraction, and my eyeballs are becoming jaundiced. So off to the doctor for me.

The takeaway:

• I need to finally get a CT of my head. Now.
• I likely have a kidney infection (urine culture and blood results for liver/kidney function in ~3 days)
• I was vastly dehydrated even having been eating decently and drinking water. Received IV fluids, which I was hoping would take care of the scorching headache I’ve had since yesterday morning — no dice, sadly.
• My blood pressure was too low, and dropped dramatically when I sat or stood, which explains why I’m loopy and light headed all the time.

It’s becoming more likely that I’m dealing with some kind of autoimmune disorder as I continually become more and more infected over time, and I may test for that soon, but I think I want to get some definitives on food allergy and gluten intolerance before going in depth with it so I can figure out what the fuck I should be eating since I seem to react to a lot of stuff.

Another possible contributor is post-concussive syndrome. I’ve had three significant head injuries in my past, where I’ve blacked out and lost large portions of memory, none of which I was treated for: falling backwards on roller skates into thinly carpeted cement (lost memory of all that night and into the next morning, and broke the shit out of my tooth) passing out flat backwards on marble (and having a seizure), and being hit by a car in New York (lost about 6 hours in which I was mobile, moving, talking, and throwing up a LOT). If that’s what’s happening, there’s nothing to be done but treat symptoms until it, hopefully, goes away.

My first priority: I want to see what’s going on with my brain, which isn’t functioning well and continues to deteriorate, and the cavities in my face that are nearly constantly full of infected snot.

It was suggested we check out my adrenals and make sure they’re still working correctly and I think it’s a good idea, but will probably save it for after the CT.

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