Upcoming Slice 'n' Dicing

It has been a while since I updated my blog. It just feels like nothing new has happened since my last post.

For a while there, everything was changing and transforming every day. Facial features, less pain, wait, energy. But then, all of a sudden everything seemed to go back to how it was before my surgery. Almost as if the surgery and everything that followed was just a dream, and never really happened. I gained 15 pounds back overnight, with no changes to my diet and with more exercise on my plate. The joint pain came back, and worst of all my period came back. Now, I am looking at scheduling a hysterectomy soon so that I do not have to deal with the pain, discomfort, and the debilitating side affects of my period.

With the acromegaly, one of the symptoms is fibroids. I currently have two fibroids that are growing and growing, and last check they were the size of baseballs if not a little bit larger. If it wasn't for those little suckers, I would be fine and and not looking at  a hysterectomy in a month or so. I am sure that many of you think that I am sharing too much information. But, after all, it is my blog. I get to say what I want to! :-)

Other then the hysterectomy, I am also having my Button Surgery on September 13. I get to get a button put on my kneecap (otherwise known as Patellar Resurfacing). This should eliminate the pain and excessive swelling in my knee. By putting a button on my kneecap, it will allow my kneecap to slide easily over my titanium knee so that I can move better. Right now, it sounds like a jiffy pop popcorn maker is in my knee me every time I move. This surgery should also help eliminate some of the other joint pain I am having for compensating for my knees. So, next month and the following I will be undergoing some more surgical procedures. Oh joy.

Going back to the acromegaly, my numbers at last check we're down, but not where they need to be for me not to suffer from side effects. So, until my number is it drop below 276, I will still have inflammation, joint pain, potentially moving parts (such as I swear my jaw is still moving!). So, if you hear me tripping over my words, or having a difficulty with annunciation, that is because I am still suffering from some of the effects of that acromegaly. I will not know if I need to be on medication to control my growth hormones until October. Until then it is just a waiting game, a very annoying waiting game! For now, that is all I have.