Sometime during the summer of 2010, I started feeling lightheaded when I would stand up. I told my doctor that when I stood up, I felt like all the blood in my body rushed to my head and I heard a "whooshing" in my ears and felt like I was going to pass out. I was getting migraines for the first time in my life and had extreme fatigue. My doctor gave me a prescription for an MRI along with a referral to a neurologist. I scheduled my MRI for an evening so that I wouldn't miss work. I was working full-time as an attorney and my three children were all under the age of 5 years old. When I checked in for the MRI, the technician told me that because of the late hour she couldn't give me a CD of the results. But when the test was done she did give me a CD, which should have been my first clue that something was wrong. By the time I got home, my phone was ringing. It was the physician on-call for my primary care practice, whom I did not know. I r...
Every once in a while I check out what's going on at LinkedIn. I usually end up regretting it. Not because of the content; I always find a few interesting articles. I regret it because I see a few job postings that sound interesting. I start thinking "I could be a good fit for that job". Then I remember that I can't work. I haven't been able to work for five years now. I suffer from a few disabling conditions. I have Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS). I have chronic migraine. I have a "benign" (meaning non-cancerous, not harmless) brain tumor. These conditions may all be related. Or I might just be unlucky. I have spent hours thinking about what kind of job I could do. I always end up with the same conclusion: there is no job that I can do with my limitations. I endure 2-3 migraines a week, each stealing hours of my day. I can't work at all on migraine days. I don't know when the mi...
I can't believe that I'm doing this. I'm blogging. I'm a pretty private person. For instance, when I worked at Blockbuster Video in 1995 I was 18 years old and refused to pick my favorite movies for a row of "Jean's Picks". I simply didn't want people knowing my favorite movies. At that time, as is true with most teenagers, I was more self-conscious than I am now. Now I'm going to air out all of my dirty laundry.
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