Hippy Hoppy Hypo

Tonight I absolutely went CRAZY!! I taught our Japanese student how to do the chicken dance, the Macarena, the Nutbush and the Hoedown. Then we had a little dance party in the lounge!!

It was heaps of fun and a great way to take my mind of my stomach pains!! I think our student had a great time too!!

I'm of to bed now, my cat Honney (not a spelling error, that's how we spell his name) is lying beside me and making it hard for me to type!!

I hope everyone is having a good week and I hope everyone has had a good night like me!!

Charlotte;)

Neutral

I had my doctors appointment with a doctor who treats Blasto. today. He was nice and went over my illness thus far. He said he has treated a few people for Blasto. before and has had a few successes with his regime of medications.

I believe he was a bit wishy washy and I don't want to get too hopeful that he can get rid of my pains.

He has just treated his daughter for this and said she felt immediate relief. My mum thinks this is the problem and that he will fix me but I'm not to sure.

I don't feel negative about this appointment but I don't feel very positive either. I have some hope but only time will tell.

I don't start the actual medication until late next week as I have to start some special probiotics before taking the actual medication. After a 10 day course of the actual medication I have to wait another 4 weeks before they can re-test me for Blasto.

I'm hoping this is what is causing my pain and I am on the road to recovery but I'm not sure!!

Have a great week!!

Charlotte;)

Markets, Strawberries and Koalas

Yesterday (Saturday) we took our Japanese student to the Eumundi Markets. We didn't buy anything but still had a good time. After the markets we went strawberry picking. I had some of the strawberries today and they were delicious.

Today we went to some different markets for breakfast. These are our regular markets where we often go for breakfast. After this we went to a Koala Sanctuary where they had all different types of Australian animals. We watched a bird show and a sheep dog show and saw koalas, kangaroos, platypus', wombats, sheep, goats, many types of birds and dingos.

Two great days, which hopefully showed our student a little bit of Australia.

Something unrelated, tomorrow I have a doctors appointment with a new doctor who treats Blastocysts. Hopefully this will be a good appointment and this may be what is causing all of my pain!! This past week my pain levels haven't been to bad apart from Wednesday but I've been really fatigued. That's really annoying and I have also had a lot of nausea which is also annoying. Nausea sucks, especially because it makes my stomach pains worse. Hopefully this week will be better.

Have a great week and I hope you weekend was as good as mine!!

Charlotte;)

Home...sick

Today I was home, sick from school. I woke up after a very disturbed sleep and I had worser (not really sure if that's a word) stomach pains than normal. Every time I moved or sat up my stomach pains got worse so I stayed home.

Tonight I'm feeling a bit better, almost back to my normal stomach pains, which is what I call my 'normal sick' not 'sick sick' just 'normal sick'.

Tomorrow I should be back at school hopefully, I hate missing days of school!!

On another unrelated note I smacked my head yesterday at school on the locker above mine and now have a big lump on my head and a bruise!! It hurt really bad and the lump came up in like 5 seconds!!

Oh and on the weekend our next door neighbours horse was diagnosed (if that is what you call it) with Hendra Virus. This horse was with their other 2 horses that live on their property last week and the owner noticed that it was sick and reported it. It was euthanised on Friday and taken away on Sunday. Their property is now in quarantine and will be for a bit longer (I can't remember exactly how long). A bit scary but everyone seems to be safe!!

Oh and last thing, we have a Japanese student coming on Friday. She is 15 and from Tokyo. She is staying for 2 weeks and goes to school with me everyday!! I don't study Japanese but love hosting the students.

Charlotte;)

Results

My stool sample that was taken last Friday to see if I still had Blastocysts after my fourth dose of flagyl came back today.

And I still have it!! Yep 4 doses later and I still have Blasto. some of my doctors think it's what is causing my pains and other believe it's totally not related.

My mother has found a clinic in Sydney which believes that Blasto. causes many symptoms I have including dizziness, severe fatigue, concentration issues, weight loss, nausea and of course pain. They have a mixture of drugs that has had many successes with Blasto. sufferers. She has let my GP know about this and he is looking into it but we are hoping to find a doctor in Brisbane who knows about this.

If anyone knows anything about Blasto. could you please let me know??

Thanks Charlotte;)

Term 3

I'm back in the swing of the school term after just one day!! In a way it's nice to be back to see all of my friends(those that aren't my besties who I all saw on the holidays) but it's not  nice to be waking up again at 7am when it's freezing cold. I know that may be late for some but to me it's early, very early, to early. I need my sleep or otherwise my stomach pains get bad and I just feel 'sick'.

So back to busy busy and in my spare time I'll try to blog as much as I can!!

How were your holidays??

Love Charlotte;)

Mish Mash

Disclosure: There is a lot of whining and winging in this post and while I know there is so many people out there that has it so much worse than me I still feel this way sometimes.

This week I haven't really done anything. I've been really sick since Wednesday but it started on Monday and jut got worse. Mum thought it was almost time to go to hospital on Wednesday night. But no hospital trips so far this week...thank goodness!!

But to tell you the truth I'm sick of this, really sick of this. Usually I am only really sick for about 4-5 days so hopefully I'll be back to 'normal sick' again soon but I'm feeling no relief at the moment and can see none coming in the future.

It really sucks being sick, I wanna be out with my friends shopping going to the movies, having sleepovers, going bowling and just having fun with them but instead I'm stuck in bed most of the time because as soon as I stand up my stomach pains get worse and I get really nauseous. I have a lot of different medications to have for these symptoms but none of them really work and most of them I'm not allowed to take that often as they are for temporary pain not chronic pain.

I have done a few little projects that I can do sitting down and hope to share a tutorial for one of them soon!! On Thursday I also went over to one of my friends for a few hours as she was having a sleepover but I was to sick to stay the night and my mum calls thus friend therapy!!

So I have today and tomorrow until school resumes for another 10 WEEKS!!!!! I don't know if I can do it!! I found last term sooo hard and long and it was only 8 weeks!! Oh well I'll try to push through the pain and just try and get on with a normal life!!

I hope everyone is having a good weekend!!

Charlotte;)

What a week

This is how my (busy) week went:

Monday-I spent the day with my uncle and cousins, babysitting.

Tuesday-Doctors appointment in the morning, the doctor gave me a double script of Metronidazole to treat my blastocystis (unfortunately not making a difference yet). Then in the afternoon I had a dentist appointment for my first 2 fillings!! Actually the fillings were not that bad although my body shook the whole time because I was so scared!!

Wednesday-I went shopping with my 6 besties for the day!! I bought nothing but had a good time.

Thursday-I went to Movie World for the day with 2 of my besties!! I had a great time and went on my second roller-coaster, the Looney Tunes Children's Coaster and my third roller-coaster, the Scooby-Doo Spooky Coaster.

Friday-I made the heart cake from I am Baker with one of my other friends. It went quite well and I am hoping to try it again this week!! I'll share a photo as soon as I load them off my phone. It was also my half birthday, so I turned 14 and-a-half.

Saturday-My stomach was very bad (I ended up have a Panadiene Forte) and that night I had 3 of my besties come for a sleepover!! We stayed up until 3am and we watched Burlesque and Mean Girls 2, both very good movies.

Today(Sunday)-2 of the friends from last night and I (as well as my parents) went to some markets for breakfast and a look around. We then went to Harbour Town to do some shopping!! I bought some PJ's from Peter Alexander and a pair of jeans and a belt from Jag. We also watched Easy A which was about nothing and was very bad in my opinion.

Tomorrow(Monday)-I am going back to my Uncle's to babysit little N who's 2 and adorable.

So yeh I've had a busy week for school holidays but I've loved every day (well except for the doctors and dentist)!!

I can't wait to see what this week brings!! I hope you all had a great week and this week is just as good or even better!!!

Charlotte;)