h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Oh bugger...
Here's my day yesterday:

*wakes up in a nervous state and gets ready for work*

*ends up running really late due to lack of concentration on any sane thing*

*gets into car and swerves out driveway*



*decides I'm in no state to drive...*

MOM!!!

*finally arrives at work...still in nervous state*

*day passes v-e-r-y slowly*

16:00 PANIC!!!!
*frantically makes a phonecall that WILL cheer up...and it does...*
*immediately afterward feels like an idiot for waking someone else up just so I can babble nervously...*

16:30 In even less of a state to drive...but that's what mom's are for...

17:00 Arrives at Doctor Doom...

*panic...panic...panic...fear of doc's kicks in even more...BLOODY F*CKIN' PANIC!!!*

*passes out*

*hits floor hard *

*is woken up by Doctor Doom himself...AAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHH!!!!!!!*

*just over an hour and a half later, after having been made to run on treadmills, up and down stairs, pick up heavy objects from various angles, all while having electrodes strapped all over me...(they call it doing various kinds of ECG's - I'm not convinced)...having to strip for the doc (perverts that they are)... having m-o-r-e ultrasounds of my heart and lungs...other tests that freaked me out coz I didn't know what they were being done for....They let me out...*




So what is wrong then?

Well, from the initial tests done a couple of months ago, it was established that I have an abnormally slow heart beat that does not speed up. I have been told that this will stay with me for the rest of my life.
Oh well...

Now I have been told, that although my heart is abnormally slow, etc, it is otherwise fine. I do, however, have something known as "Muscular Skeletal some+other+long+scary+word+that+I+still+can't+remember Disorder". I called the doc today to try find out more about it, and he told me it is commonly known as "Straight Back Syndrome".
Bloody stupid name if I may say so.

It's kinda complicated to explain...and I don't exactly understand it myself...so if you're REALLY that interested in me you can follow this link and read about it: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=7267961&dopt=Abstract

It's only a short paragraph anyway - won't take you THAT long to read...

And this problem will be with me for the rest of my life too...

And I have to go for regular check-ups several times a year to make sure that it hasn't suddenly become a heart problem too...

Which is a good chance of happening...



And they are sending me in to the X-ray doc again coz they need x-rays of my cervical ribs and vertabrae...



Oh hell.

Aww Honey ...
...You okay?

Seriously, you alright?

Holding up.

!!

Not much consolation, but at least they are cefinite what is is and how to go about cotrolling it to a degree. so that has to be a parial plus?

sounds like a truely horrible day.... I feel sorry for you

mmm your link actually sounds like they d0n't really know what it is, just that they reclassified it

but hey look at the...... hey I'm not going to look at the bright side, not my style ... well if I where to look at the bright side at least your heart seems to work, so you are still around so the rest of us can try to help you get happy (or happier)....... hey why are you looking at me like that, I said I wasn't good at looking at the bright side of things.

mmm ok I'm lousy at this, here's a instead ...... noone of you people saw that

AT least they have some idea of what they are dealing with....

I hope so...

*s all of you*

*secretly s Mutant when no one is looking*

I saw that you Sneaky er

mmm .... guess someone has to bribe you now

nopE...Laudy check Stephs homepage....Worried!

its k shes back!
<ermDont do that again!!!!!

Its..been put back...

At least you know about it before it got too late. And at least today is over!

I'm also nervous about steph...

You neednt be

Honest, im okay now...

Are you taking your tabs Steph?

Laudy, now you know... start enjoying yourself.. it could have been far worse!

Aye..my medication has been upped twice now..but to no effect....

It takes time to get into your system.. and the new stuff is pretty quick in dispersing.. so if you miss one or two doses, it can fudge everything up..