an unexpected victory

[the_siobhan]

I've had the killer cold from hell since last weekend. I actually thought I was getting better on Thursday but no, it was just lulling me into a false sense of security so it could come back with renewed viciousness. My throat feels like I lost four rounds with a cheese-grater. I'm coughing so hard in my sleep that I'm waking up with a headache. And to add insult to injury I have the worst and ugliest case of conjunctivitis I've ever seen. Seriously my eye looks like I'm going to start weeping blood any second now.

So this is the condition I was in when I went for my follow-up gastroscopy yesterday. I didn't get the entertaining assistants this time but it's just as well, I really wasn't in the mood for joking around.

When they were done with me they woke me up and led me into a tiny room with an armchair where I could relax and gradually shake off the anaesthetic. My throat, already sore from the coughing, was rubbed completely raw by the scope. I'd also managed to drool enough to soak almost the entire left side of my tshirt.

Finally the doctor came in to see me and let me know that I could go. Oh, and the Barrett's I was diagnosed with last year? Gone.

...

Gone? What do you mean gone?

Yep, gone. Just like that. The mutant burned cells have been replaced with pink healthy new growth.

Oh, I'll have to keep an eye on it to make sure there are no future problems, but still. It just... grew back. I didn't even know it could do that.

Kind of makes the cold seem a whole lot more tolerable.

Now if I could just stop with the damn coughing already.

Comments

[okoshun.livejournal.com]

It seems that everyone who's catching this cold is ending up with pink eye at the end. I think you're the third or fourth person who's posted about it in the past couple of days.

[bellafiga.livejournal.com]

This cold, is one motherfucker. It's taken almost 3 months to get us ALL healthy!

That said, feel better soon!

[eveofdstruction.livejournal.com]

That is awesome. The cold, on the other hand, needs to fuck off and die.

[sweetfuckall.livejournal.com]

I Googled Barret's -- glad it's gone!! Did you send Jebus a Valentine this year? ;o)

I can sympathize with the coughing. I once took such a bad spell, I pulled a muscle in my groin and had to wear a weightlifting belt for a week.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I keep popping my damn ribs out of place!

[dark-phoenix54.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's great about the Barretts. They so frequently say that it never heals, but my FIls did, too. Of course, he had some really expensive drugs and 40 hyperbaric chamber treatments that might have helped heal it, but still.

If you've got the same damn virus I've had, the cough lasts FOREVER. You get better for a couple of days, then wake yourself up coughing up your liver.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I am positive that colds used to last me a week. Now they hang around for months like a teenager who won't move out of the house.

Barrett was smashed like a bowl of eggs

[http://users.livejournal.com/cincinnatus_c_/]

That's awesome. It's good to know that this reflux thing isn't a one-way street into worse and worse parts of town.

[eveofdstruction.livejournal.com]

I am firmly of the opinion that the bugs are nastier these days. You've got to love rapid viral evolution and the Red Queen dilemma,or, you know, not. Science is cool as long as it stays out of my lungs.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

Yep, gone. Just like that. The mutant burned cells have been replaced with pink healthy new growth.

OMG! You're a mutant.....!

[redheaded-pixie.livejournal.com]

Yep, gone. Just like that.
oh that's FANTASTIC news!

[dali-muse.livejournal.com]

Finally the doctor came in to see me and let me know that I could go. Oh, and the Barrett's I was diagnosed with last year? Gone.


Hooray! Now, out out damn spot!! Em, I mean cold be gone!