Schrodinger's Ulcers
1. So happy to have Emma home. She just got her grades, and she made all As! She was so worried about chemistry, but she pulled it off (she suspects with the application of a curve LOL).
2. Sammy goes to the vet for a biopsy this week. He has these scabby places on his head, and I've been saying they're weird for weeks now. When Josh took him to the vet ages ago for his sneezing, the vet looked at them but didn't think anything of them, but a couple of weeks ago, they migrated to his ears and now everyone agrees with me that they're a problem. No duh, everyone. They are not ringworm because we'd all be covered in ringworm LOL and they don't light up on the fungal UV light at the vet's, but he thinks they might be fungal, so we're gonna do a little biopsy. He has to be sedated, bless him.
I swear we had cats for forever, and I have not done as much stressing over them my whole life as I have over this one kitten in the last three months. LOL
3. I got a card from![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
misbegotten: Don't worry; be purry! I'm trying, friend. :)
4. So much grading, OMG. But also so close to being done, thankfully. I decided to give audio feedback on final essays this semester, and I'm digging it.
5. Y'all, get this. I finally broke down and went to the dentist because I'm tired of my face hurting all the time, and he leans me back in the chair, and takes a peek, and then he looks at me really funny. Like really funny.
And he says, "I don't see any ulcers in your mouth."
And I'm all, "What do you mean you don't see any ulcers in my mouth?"
He says, very diplomatically as if speaking to his beloved aunt who now routinely sees pink elephants in tutus dancing across the room, "Well, I don't see any right now. Take a look," and hands me a mirror, and there aren't any ulcers in my mouth.
Now I know for a fact I have had ulcers in my mouth at least some of this time because I have felt them with my tongue and/or gotten out a flashlight and seen them in the mirror, but my mouth hurts pretty much all the time, so I've just assumed they've been there all the time. And they haven't.
"So why is my mouth hurting?"
"I think you have trigeminal neuralgia."
Oh, fuck my life. I'm going to see my neuro on Tuesday, and I'll float it by him. Maybe he'll want to do another MRI; he did suggest initially doing yearly MRIs. If I do have TN, it's presenting atypically, but I do think it's interesting that the dentist just offers this potential diagnosis that slots right into my autoimmune/neurological issues without knowing any of my medical history. He said the pain doesn't sound like TMJ to him because of where it is in my face, but I'm getting fitted for a mouthguard in a couple of weeks anyway because I do grind my teeth. OMG. Just whatever. LOL
2. Sammy goes to the vet for a biopsy this week. He has these scabby places on his head, and I've been saying they're weird for weeks now. When Josh took him to the vet ages ago for his sneezing, the vet looked at them but didn't think anything of them, but a couple of weeks ago, they migrated to his ears and now everyone agrees with me that they're a problem. No duh, everyone. They are not ringworm because we'd all be covered in ringworm LOL and they don't light up on the fungal UV light at the vet's, but he thinks they might be fungal, so we're gonna do a little biopsy. He has to be sedated, bless him.
I swear we had cats for forever, and I have not done as much stressing over them my whole life as I have over this one kitten in the last three months. LOL
3. I got a card from
misbegotten: Don't worry; be purry! I'm trying, friend. :)4. So much grading, OMG. But also so close to being done, thankfully. I decided to give audio feedback on final essays this semester, and I'm digging it.
5. Y'all, get this. I finally broke down and went to the dentist because I'm tired of my face hurting all the time, and he leans me back in the chair, and takes a peek, and then he looks at me really funny. Like really funny.
And he says, "I don't see any ulcers in your mouth."
And I'm all, "What do you mean you don't see any ulcers in my mouth?"
He says, very diplomatically as if speaking to his beloved aunt who now routinely sees pink elephants in tutus dancing across the room, "Well, I don't see any right now. Take a look," and hands me a mirror, and there aren't any ulcers in my mouth.
Now I know for a fact I have had ulcers in my mouth at least some of this time because I have felt them with my tongue and/or gotten out a flashlight and seen them in the mirror, but my mouth hurts pretty much all the time, so I've just assumed they've been there all the time. And they haven't.
"So why is my mouth hurting?"
"I think you have trigeminal neuralgia."
Oh, fuck my life. I'm going to see my neuro on Tuesday, and I'll float it by him. Maybe he'll want to do another MRI; he did suggest initially doing yearly MRIs. If I do have TN, it's presenting atypically, but I do think it's interesting that the dentist just offers this potential diagnosis that slots right into my autoimmune/neurological issues without knowing any of my medical history. He said the pain doesn't sound like TMJ to him because of where it is in my face, but I'm getting fitted for a mouthguard in a couple of weeks anyway because I do grind my teeth. OMG. Just whatever. LOL