Because I had been in pain for a couple of weeks when the pain started to get worse, I started making more phone calls in an effort to find a pain clinic that was closer than rochester's Mayo. I went to the Rehabilitative Institute of Chicago, that Mayo had recommended. I talked with the doctors who then poked at me and watched me walk and so forth and wiggle my toes. There was time spent sitting in the waiting rooms. I had a psychological evaluation. The doctors had decided that wha...

I want to be healthy. Most people would like to be healthy. I try to be healthy- I excercise regularily, I am on a diet, and I have way too many doctor's apointments. In the spirit of staying healthy I went to see my old allergist because I think it would be lovely to breath well again. So my allergist is looking up my old allergy test results (I can't afford to get retested). I also had a CAT Scan of my sinuses because of this chronic sinusitus stuff. It didn't reveal much, just a smal...

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is, by the very name, exhausting. It is not the being ill that offends me so much, the frequency and variation of the illness. Last week I had the flu-- this week the cold that never went away two weeks ago has become a sinus infection. And I do not get used to the variety and I will miss work when these things hit and sleep through class and feel miserable. I think that I beleive that one day I will wake up and be better- that while I might not be strong or p...