Okay, so I wanted to give everyone an update on my health issues.. so here goes..

The doctor discovered that I have a severe iron deficiency meaning I am severely anemic. He is pretty confident that this is the cause of my thrombocythemia and said with each progressive CBC done, my platelet counts have been coming down although in very minute increments. He put me on an iron therapy and I am to repeat the CBC in one month, and then follow-up in 3 months with him. At that time, he will let me know how things are progressing, but was quite confident that getting my iron counts up would reverse the thrombocythemia along with the symptoms it has caused.. before any permanent damage is caused. I am very excited about this.. it has given me my HOPE back. My mom says that the prayers and good thoughts must be working, and I am definitely inclined to believe this as well, but still keeping my fingers crossed. I am still supposed to keep de-stressed right now since obviously the platelets are still quite elevated.. I don’t want a heart attack or stroke.

However, the CT scan came back with good results except for one tiny mass discovered on my right ovary. I suffer from polycystic ovaries (PCOS), but the doctor informed me that the mass discovered on my right ovary is not a cyst, that it is definitely a tumor. That being said, he informed me the tumor is less than one centimeter in size, and concurred with the radiologist that at this time, it is benign. He is forwarding the results of the scan to my specialist so he can decide in what direction to proceed. He explained it is the cause of the pains I have been having in my right side, yet doing my best to ignore. I have always refused pain meds for my PCOS because tylenol should be good enough and I don’t want to become like the people I see in the pharmacy all the time.. prescription drug addicts basically.

Some people could see this as another downfall, but I am simply happy and ecstatic. I can live without an ovary.. or two, if necessary.  I cannot live without my blood, regardless, of being accused of being a vampire or zombie due to my pale, ghostly skin coloring LOL. I have been prepared for the female issues for a decade and think God does work in mysterious ways…

This Texas weather has simply been craaazyyy! One day it is 84, the next we are getting freezing rain.. el yucko.. as I like to say. No, that is not a real Spanish phrase to my knowledge, just one of those Spanglish things going on here LOL. I can say a Spanish phrase that is often misspoken is “no problemo” by all of us English speaking Americans. Technically, that is SOOO incorrect, it should actually be, “no problema”… the difference is the ending, but I digress..

Back to the weather I say! It has been one of the coldest winters I think I can remember. To me, a normal winter is 50 to 70 degree weather with a few fluctuations, but this year, it has been a more steady 30-50 degrees instead. With my development of his myeloproliferative disorder, I am feeling it more so than in the past. My hands and feet stay cold a LOT now, which is weird for someone of such a hot natured body system. One of the first things I do when I walk into work.. run up to one of the guys and put my ice cold hands on their arms, by their wrists. For some reason, that seems to work for warming up my hands when other things aren’t. I have even tried running my hands under hot water, but alas, that does no good either. The guys don’t mind so much, especially since they are being very supportive as my friends, knowing the health crisis I am going through. Plus, they also are aware that I mean nothing by it, and I asked if it was okay to do so. They like playing macho.. so it’s just a feed to their ego, at least so they tell me LOL.

I have also been sooooo surprised that one of my plants has not only survived, but is THRIVING in this weather. I had bought a mixed hanging basket last summer. It contained a Creeping Purple Jew and a Swedish Ivy. The Jew plant thrived during the hot, hot summer, and the Swedish Ivy is now thriving with the near freezing temps. It is even blooming, which totally blows my mind. I have the plant sitting in the corner on my patio, and the Jewish plant has died, but is acting as an insulator to the Swedish Ivy against the cold concrete. Plus, when they re-did our patios 2 summers ago, they put the wood siding all the way down to the base of the concrete, so the plant is not in the direct wind, which my apartment patio faces due north. As for my purple Jew.. that is my favorite houseplant on the planet, so earlier in the fall, before the temps fell, I gave my mom a few cuttings from it to plant. She planted those cuttings in a pot, and when the temps fell, brought all of the plants into her garage out of the cold. The plant has thrived, though no where near as well as during the summer. But, that is good for me because she says I can have cuttings back off it to replant in the hanging basket and other pots on my patio during late spring. I would bring my plants inside my apartment, but i tried that before, and my cat decided to dig the dirt out of the pots, plus, she likes eating my Purple Jew, and before you ask, no, it is not harmful to her system.. I checked MONTHS ago. I will perhaps attach a picture of my plant once I get all the files transferred to my new computer from the old..

Well, we’ll see what mother nature has in store for us this week, so more to follow…

Well, in light of recent issues. I have one more I have added to it. I decided to break it off with the guy I was supposedly dating. But, I have decided he was just another jerk that was playing me for an idiot. One can only believe for so long that he is working 60-80 hours per week, and after reading excerpts from a book, “He’s just not that into you” I saw the writing on the wall, and gave him his freedom. Yes, I sent him a long email to do it, but the damned asshole had not even given me his phone number.. he always conveniently ignored that question, although he had mine. Hard to break up with someone when they don’t do that huh? I gave him several examples of how he fit the book, that I truly believed that he was spending that extra time with someone else or had gone back to his ex. I told him as much, and he never responded, so I have taken that as my answer, that I never was worth it to him. Just another jerk in my ever increasing repertoire.

Now, I have a funny question. Did anyone else ever notice that sumo wrestling looks awfully similar to a pair of male gorillas stomping out territorial boundaries right before they spar? LOL, I was watching the history channel, and it simply came to mind.. and I needed a distraction before I just sit down and cry again. My life has simply not been fair as of late, and I am doing the best I can…