This is who I am

Today, instead of working I stayed home, writhing in pain.

Ok, so it wasn’t so much writhing as much as it was attempting to sleep off the major fatigue that has plagued me of late. That fatigue, dear friends, has been caused by nothing other than a stomach ulcer.

Yay!

I get to go get an upper GI on Wednesday to confirm what my doctor is sure is an ulcer. Meanwhile, I’m on a proton pump inhibitor for the next two weeks and I can’t take any pain killers. My next menstrual cycle will kill me. And that nasty headache that I have right now, well, I may as well get to know it because I’m not going to be able to send it packing anytime soon.

The good thing is that I don’t have to modify my diet. I can still eat chips and salsa, in other words. This is good, because chips and salsa are my ultimate comfort food.

At some point, I’m supposed to get a blood test to check for the presence of a specific bacteria, but since my doctor nor his nurse mentioned nothing about how to set up such a test, I have to call them and find out what I’m supposed to do. You’d think they’d have handled this at the office. Oh well.