Human Barometer - Ear Piercing - 111

Each of my princesses have to wait until they are 14 to get their ears pierced. I think it is a good time and have posted about that before when Princess Three and Four went to get their ears pierced. They don't have to get them pierced and actually, Princess Four is the first that ever got her ears pierced at age 14 as all the rest waited until they were older not wanting to deal with the whole earring thing. Here is the post where I explain it.

Princess Two went to the mall at college and got her ears pierced on her own about two years ago after her sisters did theirs. So, it was my baby Princesses turn. She is going to go to a church camp next week and wanted them done before she went. I was good with that so we went down before our game and had them done. I wanted to give her as close to a week with them as I could before she left for the week on her own in case there was any problem with them. 

She was cute as she thanked me over and over for paying and taking her to get her ears pierced. She has started collecting cute earrings and I had the girls all pick a few pair from my old stash when I first got my ears pierced. I had bags of potato chips, Vegemite from New Zealand, Carrots, and all sorts of novelty earrings from the 80's. They each took turns until they were all gone. I made sure that Princess Five got as many as her sisters so they could all enjoy them. 

She is so excited to be able to wear something other than the studs that she chose. Right now, as I type this, she is putting alcohol on her ears. She said they aren't hurting her at all so that is good. With her ears pierced, another new era has begun in our home. With each new thing Princess Five does, I am closer to the "empty nest" and that is a bitter sweet thing. I love to see them grow but when they are gone, it will be weird not having so much to do to keep up with them.

I also wanted to post about the 111's in my life the past few weeks and was excited that my blog has over 100,000 views. It has only taken three years to get to that mark but in the end, I am not doing it for views, I am doing it for my family. Just this week the girls were talking about how they like that they can just type in one of their favorite dishes and see the pictures and recipe online and make it. 

My youtube account also had 11,100 views this past month. I keep seeing 111 or 1111 everywhere. Just today, I saw it twice but will post about that next week perhaps. 

If I help someone in the process of journaling for my family, so the better. I have had to reference it a few times myself if I forget something I have done to change up a recipe, it is nice to be able to go back and see what I did to make it better. 

There have been lots of storms lately and my head has been letting me know. I had nose surgery after a boating accident and ever since then when there is a pressure change, I can tell. I always know 24 hours or so before it rains and there is a pressure storm. When I was working in the ER, the days I would have a headache, we would always have a few people come in for "Migraine" shots. I would often ask them if they had noticed a correlation between the weather and the headaches. Mine get so bad I "lose my cookies" and if I don't take something early enough, that is a for sure. For the most part now, I catch them and take some Tylenol, Psudaphed and drink a 20 oz Coke. For some reason, that combination drains them and I am ok. However, there are days like this day last week where I took all that and then took ibuprofen as well and ended up not feeling any better. It just depends on how high the pressure is in the storm. 

The other trigger for me is driving or flying through different altitudes where my sinus can't regulate the change. Peru was horrible for me going up thousands of feet and then back down in a few hours of time while on windy dirt roads on diesel smelling buses where the fumes get to you anyway. I had to actually have the bus pull over before while the entire bus got to watch me relieve myself of the three liters of coke I drank trying to calm it down when the medicine didn't work. 

Best bet for me, take the pills at the first sign of a pressure change. Now, I just drink Coke before driving up the mountains and that usually helps. It is hard if I wake up with a headache as I am trying to play "catch up" all day. 

At least I will always know when to take an umbrella! See, there is always a bright side to every situation! :-)

Human Barometer - Flu and Migraine

I tried for awhile now to upload some pictures. For some reason, my internet isn't working well and keeps freezing where I have to restart everything.

I had one of the worst headaches / migraines I have had in years. I knew I should have taken something for my head the night before but woke early with a headache and tried to sleep it on for a few more hours. I woke in so much pain I threw up immediately. I started feeling better after a few bouts of kneeling to the porcelain bowl. I got up and showered and played a few games with the girls.

After a nights sleep, I figured I had gotten over it and actually attended church today only to come home and start with the flu.

Not the best two days of my world but glad I got to spend time with my girls, at least most of them.

Hope your past few days have been better than mine.

Here is a post where I tell about my headaches. And another post here.

Parasite Update and Black Lines and White Dots on or Under My Figernails

 

I thought I had better stay away from my health issues as I concerned a few people with my "rant" on Friday.  I am just going to show some pictures of my nails and the white spots and dark lines which have just shown up for years now. I searched online for causes and couldn't find anything. After my last peroxide soak, about four of the lines showed up and then lots of "white" dots which I think are the nematodes and the lines are the actual worms. Gross information, but if I don't document it, others may have to try and figure it out for themselves and why remake the wheel. My niece also has these so I know I am not the only one with these but I just wanted to explain what you are seeing as you read. I'm using them as filler. Here is a post about them. Also, my hand rashes are back. I haven't been soaking them enough, I get busy and forget to do it and it hurts to do so I put it off.  

 

Of course, it has been a difficult week hearing that you have an illness no one else has but it doesn't change my daily life. I still feel how I feel. I guess I should have called my dad to tell him what was going on but as any father, he wants to fix the problem and since NO ONE knows how to fix this problem, I figured it would only frustrate him. However, not hearing it from me, I think made him more frustrated. I told him from now on I would call him with any news.

I then thought how I worry over my girls and want to fix all their problems and truly felt for my father. I would worry about me as well. I also got contacted by Princess One worried about my headaches. I thought I had figured them out but now I think they are related to the parasite getting worse. My left ear started hurting a week or so ago and has gotten worse.

I have had a migraine at some point of the day for four or five days in a row. Today, I didn't get up and attend church. You can ask my children how often that happens. I go no matter how I feel. I woke over and over in the night with dreams about water. 

I can't say that it isn't my mind playing some subconscious trick on me since I have read how this parasite can make it's host commit suicide by jumping into water.  I started thinking about it today as I didn't do much of anything being very tired and "weird" feeling all day.

I woke early with a headache and took some pills and went back to bed. Princess came in a few minutes later as I had just gotten back to sleep. I told her I wasn't feeling well so she attended church meetings with a friend. I woke and fell asleep with dream after dream about being on a boat and huge waves overtaking the boat. Or another was about me diving off the bow of a ship into the ocean. For one, I can't dive. Two, I would NEVER go head first into the ocean as I would jump in with my nose plugged as water gets in my nose when I dive as it does with everyone in my family. 

 

Twice today, even while awake, I went to a story in my head about a book I listened to a few months ago about an ocean liner going down in the middle of the ocean. This just happened at odd times through the day when I was laying on the couch or getting dinner ready etc. 

When I thought about it, I realized that I have been chewing ice lately, and in the last two months, I have purchased more Popsicles, creamies, Italian ice and any other frozen / water type treat I can get my hands on. That is NOT like me. I don't know if it is my way of keeping the parasite down with the cold, or if it is something I am craving because of them. I will eat 1-5 a day. I have never done that in my life. 

I am sorry for my rant last week, It is not something I usually do but when you feel horrible, sometimes one just needs to let it out. I really can't wait until Wednesday's test are over as I can feel these things getting worse as I can feel them now moving through my sinus and still moving through my heart. Before, it was mostly just pain but the past few weeks it has been actual moving in the heart were as before I could only feel them in my lungs and gut. 

 

I contacted the CDC and got transferred over and over to people who told me that they would give me information on my diagnosis only to say they had "no information on file for this parasite". Finally, they said they needed medical personnel to call and when I told them I was an RN, they happily gave me the number to that phone line. I left a message including the lab that did the test to diagnose the parasite, my Dr. name and my information praying that something would be looked at finally. 

I have had a few people contact me that have read my post and claim to have similar symptoms. If you know anyone that does, please have them contact me so I can gather names of people to be tested if I can get someone to listen. One of them has a pet reptile and feeds them crickets so I could see how they could get this but I hate bugs and most pets, so for me, that wouldn't be the way that I would get this.   

I did have a weird dream the other night. You know if you read my blog, I have had many dreams come true and a dream started this whole thing. I had a dream that I had three parasites and one was affecting my head. 

So, in this dream, I am with my brother. In real life, he has similar health problems and has to watch what he eats being gluten and casein free. He also had a weird eye problem where his eye iris wouldn't expand or contract and his pupil would stay open all the time. 

The woman I was sharing about with the lizard, it seems her son had some similar issues with his eyes. Anyway, that was a tangent from my dream. In the most recent dream, my brother and I were eating. In the dream, an autistic boy kept trying to get at my food and water. He wouldn't stop and I kept telling him "I wasn't finished yet." he wouldn't stop until he got my water from the table and started drinking it fast and as much as he could. I freaked out thinking I didn't want him to get the parasite from me. Then, Dr.'s or scientists came and started studying my food. All the sudden, there was a worm on my plate. Then, there were more and more and more and they started to morph and I walked away from the table and there were more and more scientists looking at these worms that started to morph and take wings and jump to the ground. It freaked me out and I woke up. 

It took me a few days to really grasp what I believe is the meaning of the dream. I think that perhaps autistic children get it in the womb from the fluid. Before they are in the world. As in, "I wasn't finished yet." and he was drinking in the water. Not sure how else to take it as I have no sons and don't share my water with anyone. 

The food part, at first, not many people are looking into this but once it gets out that a new human parasite has been discovered, it got more and more scientists attention. Then, as they found more and more cases of it, they discovered that there are more than one type. Similar to how there are many types of thread worm, there are many types of this worm. We have just been missing it due to the lack of being able to diagnose it and how small it is in the lung, lymph etc. 

Once they found it had many types, each scientist followed the type that concerned them. Some were on the ground and some took wings so those would be the more common once or it could mean that in the first stage they are in the soil and a scientist of soil looks at that phase of the parasites life. then it morphs into the lung / human lymph / heart stage. Then the gut stage. So, different doctors would study it in the different stages and the different organs that it effect. That is the end of dream stuff.

I got a call to donate blood this week. I wondered how many people will donate blood this week in our area who have symptoms of this and not even know they could be infecting someone else with this horrible curse? It made me think that it will be a long time or, maybe never again, that I will donated unless they start screening for this parasite and others. 

 

I will keep you informed of what response I get from the CDC, my echo and my heart condition and my response to the new over the counter medication I am going to try. 

I have felt water logged all day and yet still am drinking water. I also have been extremely tired today even though I haven't done much. My teeth and head have hurt but there is a storm coming in but I don't think it explains four or five days of severe headaches.   

Thank you all for your prayers and concern. I have some fun blog posts I want to share but figured I should update you after that horrible post last Friday. I will try to be more upbeat and grateful as I have shared with many of my friends and family this week. I AM grateful that I have the strength to push through the red tape to find a diagnosis. I could have treated myself and my family up front but wanted to be able to help my neighbors and family (extended) get treated and I can't just tell everyone to purchase something and take it. Many wouldn't even know the symptoms if I hadn't gone through this hyper infection as I only had a few of the symptoms before. I KNOW that God has HIS hand in this so I could help not just my own children and family, but neighbors and friends that are having different symptoms.  

I talked with a few people this week with some horrible health problems, surgeries, loss of jobs and family members and it once again made me VERY grateful for my life. Crazy as it may seem at the moment, it is mine!