I find it funny how the very day I write to you all regarding the Cocktails of drugs that I take daily I start two new drugs that send me off to another planet, so to speak. I have been wondering, often amazed at times, when I consider how well I’ve been feeling with all of these foreign substances floating around my system. It makes me appreciate our medical advances as well as the body’s tolerance for punishment/ability to heal. That said, I started my two new drugs after clinic, Dilantin and Ursodiol to help combat my irregular liver functions and while I felt fine Friday evening I haven’t been myself since. Although this was expected, and predicted by the Doc it is a feeling quite unlike anything I have felt before, explaining it will be a challenge but I will give it a shot.
Purple Haze was the best term I could think of as I do feel like I’m in a haze. My thought processes are fine, as are my emotions but my physical condition, i.e. my head, my balance, are not right. I said to my Dad yesterday, it’s as if I have been “half buzzed” for the whole day, only a little different. I noticed my head when I first got up early yesterday morning, but I thought the fuzz was due to my quick spring from bed, of course when I had finished breakfast and realized that I had this pressure in my head I knew that it was something other than a blood pressure related headrush. Honestly at first I didn’t quite know what to think as yesterday was the first time I didn’t have the side affects of my drugs explained to me by the pharmacist, thus I wasn’t sure where to draw the line between calling the hospital or not. I waited as my condition didn’t get incredibly worse, it was just foreign. So the day progressed and I went with it, doing very little, which was a complete change from my walk in High Park a few days ago, my first real walk with a hill and everything, in 2 months.
So I awoke today to much the same sensations, light headed, dizzy with fleeting pressure between my ears, really more awkward than anything. No pain or profound discomfort associated with my new head feelings, with the exception that there appears to be a nagging headache coming in and out today, just for good measure I’m sure. I think foreign is perhaps the best single word to describe the situation, but in reality I have been in a foreign state much of the past 6 1/2 months. Or maybe the best way to say it is I have experienced many “different” foreign states, as there have certainly been a wide variety.
All other things are well, due back in the hospital for clinic in two days and I will be in touch with the news from there in the next few days.
Enjoy the rest of your day,
Geoff
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