Waking up early...

There was a time when I sprung out of bed with the knowledge that the day was going to be a great one! Now, more times than not when I spring out of bed, or that should be roll cautiously out of bed, testing my legs to see if they will hold me, since one never knows if they will or not…it is sadly due to one of my ailments causing me to depart the comfort that had gotten uncomfortable and threw me from the cocoon that most relish and resist moving from due to the womb-like console into the rude awakening of another busy-needy driven day. This morning, at just shortly after four A.M., my head and neck screamed to be secured with my soft brace and my tummy burned as if hot coals had felt the need to warm me unnecessarily from the inside out! Later on they moved into my throat, after one cup of Java with a glass chaser too, oh poo! Not a happy beginning to my day, no sir, no m’am! So being the industrious soul that I have become once stabilized somewhat with my cervical collar and a Pepcid, I searched the net to try to find some home brews to help myself. The head and neck pain was easy to find the article. The one I found told me what I already knew that my cervical stenosis and spondylosis were causing the top of the head headache and using the brace was the correct measure and a warm shower also would be helpful, which I did take earlier than usual. But my broken glass sensation on my tongue and throat with chest burning would not stop and so by eight twenty I dialed my old gastroenterologist's phone number and got his home and his wife, not his office. After I apologized she explained that he had retired as of July! I said that’s wonderful and I that I had liked him very much and could she recommend anyone as good as him? And right away she had the name and number of the one who had taken over his practice. And she added that he would not have chosen him if he did not have confidence in him. Good sales pitch. The newer to me doctor of tummy’s will be seeing me early next week, since he does procedures on Thursdays and Fridays… if my symptoms hadn’t slowed I would have been more concerned and gone to a walk in clinic. But I have a long history of stomach ills too, starting in my early twenties with gastritis, later ulcers, and IBS, polyps, GERD etc. why right now I am on two different stomach meds. One will need renewal and that’s another reason to establish a relationship with this doctor. Oh joy. I do know that I am due for a few procedures that most in the over fifty crowd have every five years or so, colonoscopy, since mine was eleven years ago, and I am pretty sure due to the GERD I will be having an endoscopy; I had one of those years ago too. But with taking statins for cholesterol I doubt that a colonoscopy is necessary, I hope not! The endoscopy goes down the throat, oh dear more confirmation of throat problems, a small blockage in the artery this summer confirmed, not bad, than my cervical stenosis becoming moderate from mild and most recently, two miniscule cysts on my thyroid…no wonder it hurts so much, hmm? Separately, not so bad, but together YUCK! In closing that was my day, besides sticking to a bland diet, no second cup of coffee, and I thought that was my answer to still not being a diabetic! On that note of who knows what, please allow me to be the first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to all kindly to count your blessings and to share all those overages and we will too! And next time please be here or be square. Ya hear!