Ah, it's time again. The one race I'll always do well in. ;p
I write tl;drs so easily that it's easier for me to write this than find the post I wrote last time (some ppl suggested I post also and after TIK's post how can I not deliver). I'll just make a non-exhaustive list; my medical situation changes a lot anyway.
- I'm half-blind (I have an assortment of eye conditions, the tl;dr is I have a bit of decreased vision in my right eye and can see virtually nothing out of my left eye; I have very bad depth perception and peripheral vision naturally)
- I'm half-deaf (total loss of hearing in right ear, lost it from a tumour and any tiny bit of hearing I would've had left would've been destroyed by the surgery I had)
- Two benign brain tumours (~4cm tumour near-totally resected in 2011, this is why I'm half-deaf and also can't balance correctly (labyrinthectomy as well), so I use a walking frame; small tumour growing adjacent to the brain stem, found in like 2012): the first tumour is stable and not growing back while the second tumour hasn't grown in a little while as of last examination. The second tumour gives me bad neurological pain which I negate with a prescription painkiller that I've been taking for awhile, and also some recurrent focal weakness in my hand for about a year now, as well as some kind of dysphagia. I have hyperreflexia as well but idk if that is related to the tumour
- Dyspraxia: my motor skills are horrendous and my motor sequencing so terrible that I took swimming lessons for three years and still failed to learn to swim
- Asthma (fairly bad as a child, went away as an adolescent and sorta came back after I got sick in 2011 and had pneumonia/whooping cough post-surgery)
- Anaemic with B12 and iron deficiencies (also vitamin D): I have to have regular B12 injections now as well as iron + D supplements
- Epilepsy (absence seizures, only started having them in the last few years, might be tumour-related but my neurosurgeon doesn't think so and my aunt's seizures appeared at the same age so ??)
- Raynaud's disease (it's fairly mild though, I just get a bit of discolouration + ice coldness + numbness/tingling pain)
- Obsessive compulsive disorder + social anxiety
- The ligaments (? I think) in my ankles are super duper fucked from repeated injury: I used to play netball, twisted both of my ankles quite badly, and kept playing anyway. Ruined my ankles, kept twisting them over the years due to this, etc. I saw a surgeon like two years ago but he didn't want to operate
My vitamin deficiencies aren't dietary, so my doctors are presently investigating possible malabsorption causes. Today I got the results of a test that made it look fairly unlikely to be pernicious anaemia (or lupus or lymphoma, wtf my doctor did a whole heap of blood tests and didn't even mention either LOL) Next week we should know if it's coeliac disease. I'm also waiting on the results of a genetic test for neurofibromatosis type 2 (an extremely rare disease that causes a malfunction with a specific tumour inhibitor protein, resulting in brain/spinal/skin tumours and a few other problems from an unusually early age); my neurologist and neurosurgeon and I are fairly sure I have it, but the test is not that sensitive so unless it shows up positive it will be inconclusive until I have a second tumour sample available for pathology (hopefully not for many years will I have to have surgery on my second tumour). NF2 has a pretty broad manifestation and it would explain a lot of things about me that are weird but seemingly unrelated.
Today I also got a sinus infection and have to take antibiotics >.> I get 'em every year this time or so.
