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Recording Month Six
Vital stats
Mother's age: 32
Height: 5'3"
Weight: 148.6 lbs
Body Fat: 34%
Symptoms:
Positive HCG test
Not dizzy anymore
Energetic
Raised body tempurature
Appetite is good.
I'm feeling regular kicks and rolls at 1:30 pm and midnight and at times when I am still and on my back. Feels like 2 kittens fighting in a Ziploc bag.
Nasal congestion
Round ligament pains
Freakishly strong/hard nails
Memory loss
Leg cramps
Sore back from not being able to get into my favorite yoga positions anymore
Taking:
Throxine for underactive thyroid
Pre-natal vitamin
Omega-3 Fish Oil
Extra calcium, choline
Precautionary prometrium 200 mg was discontinued after week 12.
Baby's age 25 weeks
Est. due date: June 15, 2008
François Merde's decidedly downcast film follows the exploits of charlatan Ernest Brelle (played by renowned clown, Emmett Kelly). A homeless vagrant, Brelle discovers that since he already dresses the part, he can rely on the host of hand gestures and gyrations he mastered as a young dandy in Nice to fake the role of itinerant concierge OBGYN physician. Favorite (English sub-titled) line from the film: "You want me to sterilize these gifted hands? That will be 19 francs more".... Magnifique!
January 5th, 2022
A furry addition to the Simiola family. Her name is Fiona and her paws are too big for her to handle so she trips over them.
I was initially very annoyed this morning cuz I got a text as I was leaving the house that I needed to cover OBGYN today. Only because this week has been a shit show for pediatrics and having to rely on my coworker to handle it just gives me heart palpitations. Cris wasn’t happy either but I ended up only staying there like 10 minutes and then Ashley came in. But Cris (and I) feel like, yeah I’m a strong receptionist so I get WHY they’d want to pick me to cover but if all I’m doing is checking people in and not actually doing work for the department, keep me where I am so I can… do work for the department??? Like if there’s a hole somewhere, why fill it by making a hole in another department? Like not to be rude but, moving my coworker is not making a hole, moving ME is. My absence in pedi means a lot more than hers.
BUT whatever, like I said it was a fine day and I got to go home to a brand new furry baby so!
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This is actually a feline named Alanis Morisscat at the Mewsic Cafe in Nashville but I don't actually really love Alanis Morissette's music so I'll just say, after going to the Women's March today in Chicago, it continues to surprise me that, with women making up the slight majority of the population and some men being on board, why do we still have the mess we're in when Evelyn Yang and a bunch of other women are getting sexually abused by their OBGYN and the Manhattan DA isn't holding the man accountable or when Christine Blasey Ford takes on Brett Kavanaugh and is treated like a joke instead of a human being so that her molester ends up on the Supreme Court possibly stripping women of their right to a choice about their bodies in the upcoming months and overturning Roe V. Wade.
How did we get to this point where women are under-represented in every major branch of government and where our fascist president not only insisted he could grab us by our pussies but also ran around with known rapist pedophiles like Jeffrey Epstein for years and also loved to drop in on Miss Universe and Miss Teen America girls in their locker rooms. Have we forgotten the women who have come forward? Not just the sex workers but the under age girls whose allegations have not been heard....
We all ought to know a lot better.
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There's surprisingly little on the internets about minimal change disease and nephrotic syndrome in adults, from a patient perspective. Less still about what happens to your body. I'm writing this to explain, practically, realistically and hopefully with a sense of perspective, what happened to me - for anyone else diagnosed with it.
Apologies friends, who may know all of the below, and Tom, who's heard it all twice, thrice and more :) I rarely use my blog, and this is the next best place.
The photos above are from 20 May and 12 June.
What a difference a shitload of steroids makes.
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GP visit - 8 May, to discuss my slightly swollen feet and ankles, which I put down to a new Power Plate exercise at the gym. He thought I seemed very confident that's what the problem was, and gave me some very low dose diuretics, and off I went, clutching my prescription.
Symptoms - 8 May - 14 May, the swelling in my feet (actually first noticed 25 April), worsened, from my feet, up my ankles, then up my legs, tummy, lower back and finally, face and around my eyes, especially in the mornings.
What kind of swelling? So bad it was impossible to bend at the knees, I had to roll sideways out of bed, couldn't bend backwards, had numb toes, pins and needles. Old scars bulged and re-appeared - I guess due to the swollen cell changes. Kind of amusingly, if I slept on my side, one side would be bigger, and I had to wait for gravity to pull all the fluid downwards.
In total, I put on 15kg of water in about three/four weeks. It's called 'pitting edema', and feels and looks like memory foam, when you press the skin in.
Nausea and bloating (no room for things to move around). Couldn't eat (because of the big bloat). Breathlessness (all that new weight). Foamy wee, if it happened at all. Kind of a tinnitus / spacey feeling. Feeling 'not right'.
GP again, hospital, diagnostic tests - 14 May, initially with the same GP for an emergency appointment after waking up just knowing something was really quite wrong. He ran a urine test on seeing my alarming weight change, then packed me off to the truly wonderful Royal London Hospital for blood tests, consultation, medical history and so on. Within an hour or two of me being there, they pretty confidently said that they believed it to be minimal change disease, which is one of the most common causes of nephrotic syndrome (when large amounts of protein leak into the urine). Update: oh, I also had an ultrasound to rule out changes identifiable by eye, eg, lumps, and to check that both kidneys were present and correct.
It's common in children, less common in adults. They don't know what causes it, it's often idiopathic. Four theories are: use of ibuprofen (in the past I've taken maybe 800mg a month), or a cold / sore throat (strep) virus, that doesn't go and instead, moves to the kidneys, or an allergy or an insect bite / sting. No family history in my case.
I learn it's not life-threatening and I'm not likely to get whipped in for a transplant, and nor is this likely to happen in the long-term.
Most people should have less than 20mg of protein in their urine. I had 1,345mg. It's no wonder I went pear-shaped.
Kidney (renal) biopsy - 19 May, back to the hospital at 7.30am as a day in-patient for a pretty yukky kidney biopsy.
This is done under local anaesthetic because you need to do things when asked, and they'll generally pick the left kidney (if you've got two normal-sized ones), to avoid the one by your liver.
It was done right there on the small ward, with a portable ultrasound, some anaesthetic and a loooong needle. You lie on your front, they go in from the back. Your kidneys move from side-to-side when you breathe, so you hold your breath, then breathe in and hold, when told, to take the sample (at least, that's how I understood it). They took two cores, about half as long and wide as a matchstick - here's mine - to make sure they got a broad selection of glomeruli for the electron microscopy. No need for stitches.
Then, you lie flat on your back for six hours, to kind of seal things up. It just feels odd afterwards - you can feel where the kidney has 'popped'. I was told that I'd feel like I'd been kicked in the back, but barely any pain at all - more general nervousness at popping myself open and dying in a pool of blood in a corner of an old Victorian hospital.
You have to wee whilst at the hospital, to make sure there's no serious bleeding. I doubt they'd let you home without this check, so drink the tea, even if you are horizontal most of the day. Went home around 10pm, with a big bag o' drugs and an order to not lift anything heavy for two weeks, being particularly careful for the first 48 hours.
20 May - started treatment. Per day:
-- 60mg prednisolone (to stop the protein leak from my kidneys)
-- 80mg furosemide (or frusemide, a diuretic, to make me wee like a racehorse. I took 160mg some days, as it didn't really work to start with - previously okayed with the consultant).
-- Calcichew D3 Forte (calcium, the steroids thin your bones)
-- 20mg omeprazole, a kind of stomach liner, as the steroids can irritate your stomach lining.
-- 10mg atorvastatin, for my temporarily sky-high cholesterol levels, as a result of the changes in my blood / the protein leak / steroids - I don't know which.
I chose to stop the furosemide as soon as my weight was back to normal.
24 May - consultant. More weeing in pots, and a good chance to chat to the consultant. There's a possibility he thinks, that I may have FSGS, which is a similar condition. I'll hear later. Either way, it doesn't matter now, as the initial treatment is the same. His wise words: be patient. He says the prednisolone is generally 100% effective, then quickly revises this down a bit :)
25 May - 1 June. Holiday! To France! To the middle of France! The land that fashion forgot! I could be huge and wear maxi-dresses to my heart's content. Of the litany of steroid side-effects, I had some weird flappy whites-of-eye thing going on (could've been cholesterol, I'm not sure), chronic sleeplessness (curiously not irritating, I just lay there thinking, oh well, here I am awake again), very buzzy in the day, never tired, ever. Extraordinarily lucid. I can see how they can be addictive.
I scratched myself on a thistle or something, and the wound watered, gently and consistently, for about 3 days. Better than a tap on the knee - ba-dum tish. (There's a photo of this in this set.)
Pretty hard to walk very far, just too breathless and uncomfortable. Hard to eat much too, no room, with all that bloating.
I had some wine - maybe up to 175ml a day. The consultant said it would be OK to have one or two glasses, and I omitted to ask if this was per day, or per week... As I understand it, it's best not to mix steroids and alcohol as it can irritate your stomach lining. I imagine that will be very different in different people, particularly if you have more mental / physical side-effects from the drug, than I had / have. (So don't drink alcohol just because I chose to.)
Round about 30/31 May - whilst trying to walk around Paris - terrible, and I mean really horrible, leg pains - behind my knees, in my calves and ankles. I guess all the water was starting to shift around. My legs felt very 'brittle', ready to snap.
1 June - 4 June - the week of weeing. A lot. About two weeks into the steroid treatment, and everything suddenly started moving. I guess the protein leak was stopping, and I was losing up to 2.5kg of fluid a day. That's a bit too much really, and 1kg a day is what you're supposed to aim for. Back to more or less normal size in about a week.
7 June - consultant. More weeing in pots. Protein now trace. Which means the steroids have stopped the leak - hurrah! Now, we start to taper the steroids - very slowly, about 10mg each time. I need to see the consultant less during this time, and more later - as the chance of relapse is higher as the prednisolone drops. I should never get so big again, as all the bio-chemistry should clock a relapse well before it becomes symptomatic.
Today. You'd never know to look at me. The biopsy 'scar' looks like a little red dot. The thistle scratch has healed, but in an unusual way, and very slowly. My face has changed shape (hamster-cheeks, from the steroids). And the skin on my feet looks wrinkled and old from being so stretched. Otherwise. Fine. Somewhat ironically, my legs have never looked better, after that extended work-out.
I think I've been lucky, so far.
The lesson: if your feet and legs swell and you're not weeing, get thee to a doctor.
Update - April 2011 - gave birth to a daughter! I remained on 10mg of pred during my pregnancy, and tapered it until I finally came off them in August 2011. I was under the excellent care of an obgyn and renal consultant for the duration, too - they shared the same office, as both had an interest in the other's speciality. A very lucky bounce for me, and others like me with kidney problems and a bump to worry about.
At the beginning of December, I was diagonised with a sinus infection, after a few days on the antibiotic, I was so sick, I couldnt hold anything down, and I stopped taking it, I started experience severe pain and blotting in my abdomen. That led me to my obgyn, which started me on another kind of antibiotic, and another diagonis. I took a turn for the worse Sunday after starting that, and ended up in the ER. They gave me a different antibiotic, and sent me home. Then I ended back up in the ER a few days later, with more severe pain, dizziness. I was put on an IV, treated with an antibiotic, pain meds, had tests done, and was discovered to have a kidney infection. They sent me home after a few hours, with more medicine with the warning that if I didnt get better or if I got worse to come back to be admitted into the ER. Here it is, days later, and I am still not doing all that great, it is incredibly painful to sit up, and since I cant get to my computer, I havent been able to blog. I have logged in to grab packages, and start to try to put a post together, then the pain will end up winning. I dont know what is going to happen in the next few days, but I could end up being admitted into the ER, if this doesnt stop. I am letting everyone know, I kept putting it off, thinking I would be fine, and at times I do feel fine. But I dont like people pissed off at me, for not blogging, kicking me from groups, or thinking I just dont care.
October 22nd, 2021
My backyard looked so pretty this morning!
Today was a half dayyyy. I had my first OBGYN appt and decided to just take the rest of the day. I really like my doctor! Technically shes an APRN. Her name is Holly and she’s so nice and funny. She said she’d write me a note for the parking office!!! 10/10 great appointment.
After work I went to Target to get a couple things, most important - tampons. Walmart didn’t have the brand I wanted when I went yesterday. I recently switched to organic and I haven’t really noticed a difference but it makes me feel better mentally and emotionally. I also got a mug and a candle and re-upped on Dr. Bronners almond soap.
Then I went to Verizon to have them put my screen protector on for me. I fucked up my last one lol
THEN to Stop & Shop for some fresh flowers. And FINALLY Wentworth’s for pumpkin ice cream! Ugh so glad I found some.
I felt kind of lightheaded when I got home so I laid down for a bit then just watched Degrassi the rest of the night.
Outside the OBGYN office. Part of The Big Quitt album . Every day I don't smoke cigarettes I take a photo. Check out what I've been up to!
Tonight, will be my first OBGYN appointment. according to my hud, I am on day 53, week 8 and in my 2nd month! This is an amazing process! I also told by my doctor, which happens to be my daughter, Jade Quinn, tells me that the hud has already chosen the sex of our baby. I told her I didn't want to know the sex until the baby is born, and we will all find out what he or she is!!! I will let you know tomorrow when the due date is! Hugsss ♥ ♥ ♥
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This photo was taken in a large hospital in San Pedro Sula, Honduras in April 2009. MSMI, written on the surgeon's cap, stands for Medical Students Making Impacts. The trip was a surgical volunteer trip from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. This photo shows a surgeon performing a procedure in the hospital.
On that trip, we saw over 80 patients, and paid for the trip with privately raised funds, along with our own money to cover the difference. This was the fifth year in a row that MSMI has returned to the same hospital to operate on patients that cannot afford treatment from their own health care system.
Abortion he says is an abomination before god, however he can't quote any bible verse that says so...Anti abortion protester in new orleans . we have all kinds of problems . needs, ect. and this Fool , thinks he is doing Gods work by protesting in front of An obgyn thats doesn't even practice abortions,,,,,,,,,,, Drunk on the spirt of the lord. he sadly follows the devil " blinded by the light"
Recording Month Nine
Vital stats
Mother's age: 32
Height: 5'3"
Weight: 172.5lbs
Body Fat: 37%
Circumference: 42 inches
Symptoms:
Positive HCG test
Not dizzy anymore
Tired, lethargic
Legs sore from hauling extra weight
Raised body tempurature
Appetite is good
The baby is now upside down.
Freakishly strong/hard nails
Memory loss
Leg cramps
Hips hurt
Feeling heavy
Sore back from not being able to get into my favorite yoga positions anymore
Stretch marks on hips
Hubby says I snore now
Baby kicks are very hard
Minor Braxton Hicks that could actually be kicks
Taking:
Throxine for underactive thyroid
Pre-natal vitamin
Omega-3 Fish Oil
Extra calcium, choline
Precautionary prometrium 200 mg was discontinued after week 12.
Baby's age 38 weeks
Could be considered full term at this point.
Birth date less than 2 weeks away.
Est. due date: June 15, 2008
As we were leaving my wife's check up at the ob/gyn in August I saw this young rabbit playing in the flower bed in front of her office. Needless to say I snapped a quick photo with my iPhone. It immediately brought to mind the old saying about "the rabbit died". In this case I was thinking someone just found out she wasn't pregnant. In our case all is going well with less than 1 month to go :-)
The title is in reference to an old pregnancy test/saying. If after the test the doctor said "the rabbit died" it meant the woman was pregnant. For more see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_Test.
Have a great weekend and thanks for all the fun!
ever since v was diagnosed... toby sensed things weren't right... and he has been at her side... a guardian...
the lamb is named faith... she was a gift from the diagnostic clinic... they give one to all the women who are diagnosed with breast cancer... they put the lamb in a canvas tote bag... as v was walking through the waiting room to leave that day... one of the women waiting for her appt said "oh... we get a nice canvas tote!" V looked back and deadpanned "believe me... you don't want a tote bag... trust me..."
so this morning, katie woke up sick sick sick... wheezing, hacking, and hoarse... we did find someone to watch her while we meet with the surgeon this afternoon... but with this added complication, v has decided to postpone the hand surgery until later next year... its just too much all at once...
Interior of an Obstetrics and Gynecology physician's office.
Seoul, South Korea
Nikon Coolpix P-5100
November 5, 2008
This is an Obgyn/delivery table in the hospital in Les Cayes Haiti. We were able to replace it with one that was donated to us last year. Can you imagine being a woman, 9 months pregnant, going in to a room with this and giving birth to your child! We joked that it would make a good movie prop in a horror movie.
ABQ
Two doctors are laying in bed after having sex. The guy says, "You must be an OBGYN because you really know how to use your equipment."
The woman says, "You must be an anesthesiologist because I didn't feel a thing."
Recording Month Eight
Vital stats
Mother's age: 32
Height: 5'3"
Weight: 165lbs
Body Fat: 38%
Symptoms:
Positive HCG test
Not dizzy anymore
Tired
Legs sore from hauling extra weight
Wheezy and winded
Raised body tempurature
Appetite is good.
The baby is now upside down.
Nasal congestion
Round ligament pains
Freakishly strong/hard nails
Memory loss
Leg cramps
Hips hurt
Feeling heavy
Sore back from not being able to get into my favorite yoga positions anymore
Stretch marks on hips
Hubby says I snore now
Taking:
Throxine for underactive thyroid
Pre-natal vitamin
Omega-3 Fish Oil
Extra calcium, choline
Precautionary prometrium 200 mg was discontinued after week 12.
Baby's age 35 weeks
Est. due date: June 15, 2008