Good news: I am completely at baseline, am making steady progress bridging my oldest son into adulthood although he will continue to need lifelong assistance, and am waiting until Thanksgiving holiday and the following weekend are… done with before I call my primary care physician about possibly, probably needing to be put on Plavix (aspirin is a no-go for me for a number of reasons and has been untenable for years), and touching base with a neurologist about my epilepsy rather than having him handle it as admirably as he has handled it in the past. I don’t mind this as long as I don’t get the most recent neurologist I had before I switched migraine care to the local pain management clinic, because all she did was throw triptans at me telling me that I would “have to get used to the (migraine) pain” when triptans are contraindicated in people with cardiovascular issues and this was something that she did not even bother attempting to look at or confirm, come to find out that triptans were causing significant problems in me unrelated to my migraines and that I shouldn’t ever have been put on them in the first place. But no, it was triptan after triptan from her, and I’m glad not to have been in her care for as many years now as I… haven’t. I’d really like that to continue.

That’s all I can think of to update this with right now so I suppose I’ll update with more when I think of more!

My seizure activity was addressed, and I am back to baseline. This makes me incredibly happy.

The good news is that the back pain that I had for… whatever reason has more or less gone away, for which I’m thankful. I will probably still have that looked at and ask about it when I see my local pain management clinic for my migraines, and I have a standard appointment for that coming up. I see no reason why not to…

What we’re currently dealing with is reactive airways from deep cleaning half of the house, which I do approximately every four months. I think I’m going to bite the bullet on this one and have someone else do it, because my lungs can not handle even the tamest of cleaning products. I have been coughing virulently for two days now, this being the second, and although my cough is better than it was the day before this isn’t something that I accidentally want to walk into again, even though I was wearing a N95 mask to do this, which I always do when cleaning anything. Even though the medication that I take for heart problems has cured almost all of my asthma, sometimes I forget that I actually do still have it to some degree and that my airways can become really reactive when exposed to the wrong thing, even when other people are able to be exposed to it just fine. I think that’s the kicker. I’ve been taking the benzonatate that I’ve been prescribed by my pulmonologist to stop most of the coughing, which has surprisingly worked really well, and started taking Benadryl because my face began to swell yesterday and I swear that I have never had that happen.

At one point, when it was so bad that I could not sleep, I coated my throat in the lidocaine gel that I had been prescribed for the mouth injury that I had awhile back, which you can do (the label even instructs you on how to do it if you need to). That really helped as well, and I think I’m just going to keep doing that from time to time until this subsides or I bite the bullet again and have to see a doctor over this. Everyone else in this house is predictably fine. It’s just me that’s usually sitting here, sometimes laying down, coughing and…