12/10

i feel 100% back to "normal" today. no chills or aches. so i had the flu like symptoms for less than 24 hours. my right thigh muscle is sore today though giving me a little "pimp limp". there is no bruise and it's not sore to the touch - just the muscle is sore.

yesterday i got another "this is not a bill" from my insurance company. this one is the 2nd one from the day i spent at West Penn getting my blood drawn, my spine tapped, and 2 MRIs. that day cost $25000 of which i think i'll have to pay about $1000 but i haven't gotten any actually bills yet. i guess it was worth it.

i started tracking my "flare ups" today. i probably should have doing this all along. for those of you who don't know, the whole reason i went to my primary care physician in the first place was because i was having spells where it felt like my brain "wasn't communicating with my body parts properly". for no more than 10 seconds at a time but multiple times a day, my arms/legs would feel weak (most obvious thing was my fingers would forget how to type) and i would slur. i noticed that this would occur more frequently when i was stressed and it happened more often when i was at work. my left eye also twitched a hell of a lot which i think was stress related. it's a hard thing to explain to someone who has never experienced it. most recently i've been saying that, if my brain had eyes, it felt like they'd cross for a few seconds and then go back to normal.

so here's a list of today's flare ups as far as i can tell:

10:30 - felt "crossed" for 2 seconds
12:15 - same
3:12 - had issues typing and felt "crossed" for 5 seconds
4:12 - same
4:44 - same; lasted 3 seconds
7:27 (while i'm typing this) - same; lasted 3 seconds

since my first doctor's visit, i've been feeling better. initially i was having flare ups multiple times an hour and for what seemed like a longer period of time. today was my best day in months. there's not much going on at work now either so i bet that helps. writing this blog is helping tremendously too.