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Shingles? Really?

Posted by linkmeister on 27 October 2021, 11:59 am

Now look. This is too much. Yesterday morning I noticed a few raised bumps on my arm which looked like acne. Then I discovered a whole patch of them on my shoulder and more at the top of my spine. I called my primary care doc’s office to see if he could see me anytime …

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2021 Update

Posted by linkmeister on 26 October 2021, 3:45 pm

It’s been a rather eventful year, medically speaking. In October/November of 2020 I began feeling a little pain in my mouth when swallowing. In early April of this year the doctors finally made a diagnosis of a fungal infection and prescribed antibiotics. After a couple of weeks, though, they weren’t working. All that time my …

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Movies and legs, oh my

Posted by linkmeister on 28 August 2019, 8:58 pm

I’ve gotten stalled. I rented “Avengers: Age of Ultron” but didn’t get around to watching it before my one-week checkout period was about to expire, so I took it back. I have to re-rent it, but I have to be sure I have a night available to watch it within that week. For some reason …

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Filed under Movies, Personal health | Tagged knee, Marvel

Walking almost normally

Posted by linkmeister on 25 February 2019, 9:09 pm

I made my first visit to the physical therapy guy today, and he pushed and prodded and pulled and said that what’s really causing the pain is tight quadriceps muscles. Almost the first thing he said was to stop crossing my legs. I’ve done it both ways for years: ankle on knee or knee over …

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Leg update

Posted by linkmeister on 13 February 2019, 10:19 am

I saw the doctor on Thursday afternoon, February 7. He watched me bend my knee (very good range of motion when seated) and said “it looks like arthritis. Let’s x-ray it. I’ll also prescribe some ointment and a painkiller.” So we did. I picked up the prescriptions (a very fragrant mentholated cream and some 15mg …

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Hobble, hobble

Posted by linkmeister on 6 February 2019, 1:26 pm

Long about Tuesday or Wednesday of last week (so, January 29 or 30), I started feeling pain in my right thigh from knee to hip. I didn’t get hit by a car, I didn’t walk into a table, I didn’t “sleep funny.” It has gotten progressively worse, so on Monday I called my VA doctor’s …

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Medical/family day

Posted by linkmeister on 15 October 2018, 9:40 pm

I started out this morning with an eye exam. Somehow I’m seeing slightly better than last time, which is a bit startling. I’ve got a new pair of glasses and frames coming in the mail within the next month. Once I was done with that I went down one floor at the VA Clinic to …

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Filed under Food & Drink, Personal health | Tagged Flu, Shingles, VA Clinic

Relieved

Posted by linkmeister on 18 July 2018, 9:15 pm

Last Friday I went up to Tripler for a PET/CT scan. The doc wanted a good view of my lungs. I’d had one done in June after my COPD hospitalization in May, and he wanted to check something he’d seen there. I went back today for a follow-up, and whatever it was has gone away …

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It’s been a week

Posted by linkmeister on 17 May 2018, 8:14 pm

I’m pretty much recovered. Say I’m about 85% back to normal. I’m using the same four-times-a-day inhaler I was using before I went into the hospital plus two others twice a day, but I’ve not used any oxygen since last Saturday, and that was just for a few minutes. I get winded after a little …

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Unauthorized Absence!

Posted by linkmeister on 12 May 2018, 7:40 pm

I smoked from the age of 17 until the age of 61, and I didn’t go lightly on the number of cigarettes per day for many of those 44 years. They gave me two cancerous tumors within 6 months of one another in 2012. Both were removed and there’s been no recurrence. The other thing …

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