Barium
15 years ago
General
Ugh I had that xray today. Awful awful stuff. Not as bad as I thought it would be, but awful all the while. I went into one xray office, where the table moves, had to take these fizzy pills that are like pop rocks, immediately makes you feel like you just drank a bunch of pop way to fast and have to burp, but you arn't allowed. Then she hands me this stuff that is like the consistency of wall paper paste, which you gotta mouthful, stand still, mouthful stand still, then drink it all. And there is quite a bit let me tell you. Then you get to roll around on a moving table like a hyper kid to coat your stomach, more xray. Then they send you out to drink the barium, which isn't as thick, its kinda like melted ice cream in texture, but tastes like melted face paint. There is also some sort of sweetner in it as if that would make it taste any better. XD Then you have to wait..then a xray on your stomach where the techs feel up your hips, which is just weird to me, then another one a lil while later, then you get another one on your back where the doctor comes in and jams his hand into your crotch while he's using a paddle thing to move around your intestines while xraying. I couldn't of imagined having a penis at that point how many times that mans wrist hit my hoohoo, not to mention when he was at the tender spot of my stomach! GAH. Then it was all over, took about 3 hours or so, supposedly it can take longer, all depends on how fast your small-intestine moves things, my small intestine is fast yo. Anyways after all that doc says he sees no sign of inflammation or crohns. Which I guess is a good thing. Yes I want answers, but I know crohns is not an easy fix, and would add some difficulties to my life I don't want. So that's a good thing. Though he said nothing about seeing a fistula or anything, not that they ever tell you these things, he probably just thought telling me no crohns was a relieving thing, and it was, just with the journey I've been through I want answer. And I really didn't want to have forced myself to drink chalk paste for nothing! But I came home, took a nice long nap, and woke up to my docotos office calling to want to see me, which I already had an appointment cause I am smart. ;) Results or no I would have to see him, but him calling me means theirs results! I Hope....he actually once called me when there was no results from testing because he wanted to move on to the next step, but hopefully this is the CT scan..or something the doctor didn't tell me about with this barium scan. Oh well, CROSS YOUR FINGERS.
Anyways, Surprise commissions! These are actually quite a lot of fun. I got the three first ones sketched out and should be done tonight and I should be able to start the two outside ones I got tonight, if not tomorrow. Its kinda fun to just draw whatever comes out for the character. I might do more, but I may bump it up to 10 dollars cause I am actually putting more work into them thenI thought I would. So all yous that got the 5 dollar ones, you lucky ducks!
Though I may do a round of surprise chibi's to practice a style for that..I love playing with chibi styles
Anyways, Surprise commissions! These are actually quite a lot of fun. I got the three first ones sketched out and should be done tonight and I should be able to start the two outside ones I got tonight, if not tomorrow. Its kinda fun to just draw whatever comes out for the character. I might do more, but I may bump it up to 10 dollars cause I am actually putting more work into them thenI thought I would. So all yous that got the 5 dollar ones, you lucky ducks!
Though I may do a round of surprise chibi's to practice a style for that..I love playing with chibi styles
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Two times in one year they had me getting a spinal tap because they were "lyk sooo sure" that I had spinal meningitis but the tests came back negative! D'oh! They never found out what the issue was but I had the same problem four times in one year... Each time I had to spend anywhere from two nights to a week in the children's wing (I was a teenager).
Thank god since then my only mystery revolves around an organ I am determined to have cut out of me anyway. ;)
I am glad to hear it's not crohns, anyhow, but I hope that they have found something! And again am hoping it's tiny and totally easy and cheap to fix. <3
Really just want it to be something easy to fix that isn't long term, and hoping they just find something so I don't have to just live with it.
It does really suck to have an undiagnosed illness, really just makes the whole ordeal worse.
Thankyou for your reply though <3