Sunday, March 29, 2009

My Journey-linlin March 29

I am finally supposed to be getting the blood test that I have been trying to get for almost a year.
It is for Chronic Pulmonary Histoplasmosis and/or Fibrosing Mediastinitis;
This is a lung disease caused by a fungus, most commonly with people who have a supressed immune system. This disease is usually a flu-like illness that last a few days and just goes away.
But in some people it becomes Chronic and can be life-threatening.
If my Diagnosis is correct, I'll be taking Itraconazole which is a anti-fungal antibiotic, This would be long term possibly for life.
This is a very hard med to take because it makes you very weak and ill. But it could cure this particular infection.
The reason it's taken me so long to have this is because of a stupid office worker who thought she knew more than the Dr and refused to tell the Dr that I had called.
It's amazing that someone like that can make such a differance in someones life.
I could have been already taking this for three months, but because of her, I had to wait nearly four months before I saw my Pulmonologist.
Today I am playing with a 12inch Dell computer that I am testing for 90 days. I don't like it, even with adjusting the size of the fonts, it's still too small for me to read comfortable.
Going to try the system again , but if I can't get used to it, I will be returning it to Dell, right away, and get a regular 17Inch laptop.