Leaving on a jet plane...
...Don't know when I'll be back again. Leaving...*continues singing off-key*
It's funny, I always begin sub-consciously singing that song when I'm about to go away. Which, yes, I'm doing.
As has probably been fairly obvious; the last couple of months with my ME have been especially hard. I've deteriorated rapidly to the point now where I'm allergic to many foods and nearly all mediations. I can't go out shopping for a day without ending up in bed for a week; and little things like taking a shower sap a lot of my strength and I often have to lay down for a few hours afterwards.
As my body continues to weaken, my immune system has begun to confuse more everyday substances as "enemies". In the last two months I've become badly allergic to chocolate, yoghurt, refried beans, tomatos and eggs (I could eat all three at Christmas). It was a real shock when a few weeks ago I ate four little squares of chocolate and fainted a few hours later. Wham. Was not expecting that. I was a write-off for the next two days.
The key, my doctor says, to me getting better will be in getting my body to accept the substances that it needs to help it recover. If my body continued on the way that it's going, I'd eventually become allergic to almost everything (apparently one lady got so bad that all she could eat was rice and broccoli).
Which is where me going away comes in. In a couple of days we leave for the capital, so I can go through some intensive treatment in an attempt to try and gain control of my allergies. It's going to be a whole month. Pretty intense...in a lot of ways I'm kind of dreading it, but it should work. At least a bit anyway--and another to help relieve the stomach cramps, and stomach related migraines and backache would be such a relief.
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