Tory is a quitter, round 59348239746

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So Blogathon is coming up.

I'd signed up and everything. Got two donors through the Blogathon site. Which is back up this year, because the 'Thon's official, which would make it easier to advertise, get donors, etcetera.

But I hadn't done any advertising. I was waffling on what to do for my usual 'Thon writing project, made harder by the fact that my writerbrain is utterly dormant. And, well.

I've been nebulously sick for six months plus. Constantly congested and fatigued, physically and mentally, with other problems rotating through. (Most recent? Wracking cough.) I've seen my doctor twice about it, and she just gives me antibiotics and tells me to go away and lose weight. Sure, maybe I'm too fat, but I suspect the problem lies elsewhere.

I can barely make it through a normal day on eight or ten hours of sleep. I'm not going to make it through Blogathon.

Yeah, I feel scummy. And I'm very, very sorry. And I feel even worse because there are folks doing Blogathon, including good friends of mine, who have worse health trouble. But I'm just...wiped out.

Blogathon next year. Once I find a better doctor. I hope.

Don't elect me governor of Alaska, y'all.

Comments

[paper-crystals.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

I hope you feel better.

[rivenwanderer.livejournal.com]

*hug*

Cambridge Health Alliance's Central Street office is probably kind of a trek for you, but if it isn't, I can extremely enthusiastically recommend Dr. Ruth Hertzman Miller.

[nevacaruso.livejournal.com]

I promise that I won't elect you governor of Alaska.

Or judge you for waffling out of Blogathon. I understand that you feel bad about it, and we'll miss you, but your health comes first.

I hope you feel better soon, and I love you. SO much.

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

If Mt Auburn Hospital isn't too bad trekwise, I enthusiastically endorse Dr. Beth Goldman. She will never spout the idiotic shit about weight. The wait is long to get into her queue -- if they say that she's not taking new patients, mention that you're a friend of mine and I pointed you to her -- see if that helps.

Has she tried you on any anti-allergy meds? Have you tried any of the over-the-counter antihistamines? Because when I'm not on my meds, I have pretty much exactly what you describe. All. Year. Round.

[lisefrac.livejournal.com]

Ah, so this is why you've disappeared off the 'tubes. You are missed. I strongly recommend, as someone above said, that you hie yourself to Mt. Auburn. There are some really amazing doctors there.

Take care of yourself. *hugs*

[akycha.livejournal.com]

I think it's time to fire your doctor.

[ursula]

If you can't breathe, you will be exhausted. (For me, "hacking cough" meant "undiagnosed asthma". Whee!)

[ghostangel.livejournal.com]

THIS. I spent all of May and June with it, and it took two rounds of steroids, daily Singulair, and an inhaler to fully get rid of. I was literally *exhausted* all the time from it. I agree with everyone else in that you need to see another doctor, especially since the antibiotics aren't helping. Also, wtf does losing weight have to do with a *cough*, seriously?

[methanopyrus.livejournal.com]

if you can't breathe well and your breath is constricted in cough, then you can't circulate energy so well, and if you can't circulate energy than you feel lethargic. if you feel lethargic you may move less and gain weight.

[methanopyrus.livejournal.com]

Alternative medicine is good at helping people fix chronic issues with emotional and physical aspects intertwined. You already have great insight that your health depends on mental and physical wellness! This is excellent since our culture, including the doctor, does not readily think so!

I know it is your own cost, but something as simple as consulting a homeopathic doctor and using one of their non-expensive remedies could dramatically change the symptoms you describe. Chinese herbs prescribed by an acupuncturist also do wonders on congestion, cough, boosting energy level, digestion, emotions. We have herbs for all of these things, plus the practitioner would probably support you on dietary aspects that can help.

Also, it is free to meditate. Meditation makes me more in control of my regular breathing and improves my digestion, both of which gone awry create congestion in oriental medicine. For me, I find that breathing techniques reduce my own chronic congestion.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday- I hope all is well!