Keep a personal wellness journal on DailyStrength to track your health and communicate with friends. http://dailystrength.org/people/19806/journal Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:24:38 +0100 DailyStrength RSS 0.11.3.0.6833 (FeedCreator 1.7.2) http://dailystrength.org/images/comprofiler/male.gif http://dailystrength.org/people/19806 http://dailystrength.org/people/19806/journal/191015 This has been a long long mad spell ... 100+ hour work weeks and never enough time to do the things that need to be done at home. It was just this Wednesday that the yard was finally mowed ... if it had been left much longer it probably would have just reverted to prairie! I go see the doctor a... Fri, 25 May 2007 15:11:36 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/19806/journal/114889 The exercising isn't going as well as I'd hoped. My left foot is acting up ... I think I started too fast after surgery and it REALLY kept tweeking me yesterday as my son and I walked a half mile to The Ballpark to watch the Rangers play. This too shall pass. I just wish it would pass faster! On ... Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:39:02 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/19806/journal/103980 Have been working to finish out the quarter and get to work on some new opportunities. Plus my daughter is here for part of this week ... and I start a second job that will have me working weekends for the next few months. It's been and is going to keep being busy. My daughter gets another serie... Fri, 06 Apr 2007 09:58:04 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/19806/journal/91779 There's an interesting article at http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20070316/hl_hsn/hivshoudinipowersexamined ... about HIV's ability to mutate rapidly. It turns out though that there are a couple things about HIV that don't change nearly so quickly as the rest of it and some scientists are working to see... Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:11:44 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/19806/journal/82783 Got the results from the abbreviated set of labs back today ... and all the numbers are much better than in the end of January. Viral load down from 238,000 to 1,740. CD4 count went from 208 to 320 and CD4% is up to 20% from 13%. Everything is going in the right direction so the meds, vitamins an... Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:27:39 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/19806/journal/76804 Better news about my daughter ... The doctors did another sort of CT scan yesterday in which they watched the actual flow of a thin barium solution through her intestinal tract and were able to determine that there were a few "folds" of the ileum that are highly inflamed but not permanently damag... Sun, 18 Mar 2007 12:08:57 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/19806/journal/75328 "How are you feeling today, Dad?" was how my daughter greeted me today as she was being wheeled down the hallway at the hospital. We talked about us, about her, about school, classes, boyfriends, girlfriends and played games while sitting on the hospital bed. I let her trounce me and she didn't noti... Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:10:58 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/19806/journal/75276 My daughter was home on spring break this week and feeling a bit the worse for wear but fearing some problem with crohn's she found a good doctor here and was able to see him. After some extensive checking and testing they found a huge abscess in her small bowel. Initially the doctor thought they we... Fri, 16 Mar 2007 23:21:07 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/19806/journal/73059 After 5 weeks on meds and a growing set of vitamins, minerals and herbs the doctor decided to take a short course on the lab work to see if there had been any change at all. Results in a week or two. The next test will be three months from now. The reason I decided to take the doctor's recommenda... Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:22:54 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/19806/journal/70400 There are a lot of sick people in this world. I mean the kind of sick where there is something physically wrong, not the weird shit that exists in people's heads though there're plenty of those folk too. After talking to a lot of different people over the past two months there appears to be some... Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:58:59 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/19806/journal/70136 It's past midnight, I'm wide awake and shelling peanuts. Anybody want a peanut? Tue, 13 Mar 2007 01:21:45 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/19806/journal/68793 I drank too much tea late in the evening ... the caffeine is keeping me awake. *ack!* It was a great weekend with a birthday dinner with friends Saturday night at the best Chinese place in town. My partner got me an MP3 player to use at the gym and my kids called today -- and I'll see them this w... Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:50:58 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/19806/journal/68192 I mentioned in my prior journal entry that I'm taking responsibility for my treatment and not just relying on the doctor to know what is best ... The following is my attempt to put as much information as possible into a short space because there is just too much to remember. The document is for me .... Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:43:29 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/19806/journal/66299 I've been reading and researching everything I can lay hands on in regard to improving my immune system ... or at least to help improve my immune system. So far am drinking lots of water and green teas each day, eating less and less processed sugar of any kind, starting to eat more raw or steamed... Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:46:33 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/19806/journal/62613 I'm going to be 50 this next week. Where did the time fly? Sometimes, still, I feel so much like a wet behind the ears teenager and other times the sage when considering all that has happened or that I've done in the last 50 years. In some ways it's been very full. In other ways there is so very muc... Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:24:25 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/19806/journal/60740 I'm feeling a bit depressed today ... am trying to get out of it but at the same time I keep thinking about the future. It was less than 2 months ago that I found out about being positive and am still aghast at how it could have happened. It blew away my belief that one has to have multiple partners... Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:48:54 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/19806/journal/60677 I've been struggling a bit because of a cold that just would not go away. As you might imagine, at this stage the imagination is alive and very active so all sorts of things were going through my mind. A friend suggested that it might really be sinusitis and that the antibiotics weren't handling it.... Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:46:50 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/19806/journal/52823 Well ... too a total of about 8,000mg's of vitamin c yesterday and found my limit! lol Will back off today ... Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:28:19 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/19806/journal/52124 I've had a lousy cold for the better part of a week now. It seemed to hit a high point this weekend and, keeping my fingers crossed, seems to be getting a bit better now. Am taking lots of vitamin C (about 4-5 grams a day) and have had no bowel intolerance so will up that amount starting tomorrow by... Sun, 25 Feb 2007 18:55:14 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/19806/journal/50502 It turns out the rash was mostly the bactrim with maybe a bit of the sustiva thrown in. The red and itching are slowly going down... at least I look human again. But it seems I've caught a cold and it's hanging in there. *sigh* Day by day right now. That's the word and the strength. I'm so ti... Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:35:30 +0100