A mystery, wrapped in an enigma

[drwex]

...and baked with a fluffy crust of WTF.

Short form: I'm home at the moment, from the ER. Again. Essentially a rerun of last Sunday. Without which I really could have done. Same song and dance, with some amusing variations like big blotchy hives that didn't go away even after 100mg of Benadryl. I went into the ER with the express intention of getting an answer as to what's causing this, as well as symptoms treated. One out of two.

Once again Winchester gets pretty high marks. They were overloaded bu still managed most of what I needed and everyone treated me well.

The doc spent a good amount of time listening to the story and overtly holding his own judgment back. He felt it wasn't worth subjecting me to another CT after he reviewed the first one. So he did a bunch of blood work, a couple of x-rays of my intestines and determined... that we have no clue what's causing this. Last time they did blood work (a week ago Sunday) my white cell count was off the chart - double the high end of normal. This time: normal.

Which could be interpreted to mean that I am not cultivating some kind of infection. That'd be GOOD, since it meant I didn't pass anything on to people I was in contact with lately. That would also be BAD because it would mean we have no idea why this is happening, what triggers it, or when it might happen again. Can you imagine how un-thrilled this makes me?

I got all my records from Winchester sent over to my PCP. Next step is probably to see him and get a referral to a GI specialist.

Comments

[wolfkitn.livejournal.com]

my goodness. i (clearly) missed the last round of all of this through being preoccupied with other matters at the time. i hope they figure out what is going on and what to do about it, quickly, and that it doesn't turn out to be unexplainable by any of the usual susp... er, specialists, because if it does then you sometimes end up edging closer to rhematology (that being my biggest fear after cancer on behalf of anyone i know. on the other hand, if you do, i know the rheumatologist i'd send you to...).

and beyond all that, i hope that you physically feel better, soon, and can get some rest.

[drwex]

If you skim back in my journal, I wrote up the previous two bouts with this thing. I understand your being preoccupied, obviously.