So excited to have seen the neurologist Thursday, because I heard Evusheld and Plaxovid are finally available to the general immunocompromised public, and I knew one of them could act as an effective vaccine, and if so I would like some, please.
I have already forgotten which one is pre-infection and which is post-infection, but it doesn’t matter: I can’t take it because it causes heart problems. You say, “But what if your heart test Monday is fine?” Won’t matter then either, because my high cholesterol disqualifies me. “But what if the statins lower your cholesterol?” Well, maybe, I guess, but opera season will be over by then. And really, I’m around other people more vulnerable than I am, when it comes right down to it, so I have to stay vigilant anyway.
So nothing like a vaccine for me. My white blood cells are high, but the infection-fighting part of the equation is still low.
But, I was relieved to find that the potential cardiac problem will not disqualify me from taking the Mayzent pills, because any potential cardiac problem would have got me early on.
The final bit of news was very germane: the best diet for MS has proven to be the Mediterranean diet, which I switched to two weeks ago when my left chest began to hurt. Supposedly the key factor is the olive oil. The last person I heard sing the praises of olive oil is dead now, of course.
Also, last time I saw the doctor none of his other MS patients had died, this time seven have died, all but one unvaccinated. (And the one had other health issues.).
That’s the update, folks, stuck inside for the summer: second verse, same as the first.
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UPDATE: I had a stress test and my heart looks “excellent,” so that’s part of the battle won. Now just a good cholesterol test and I can get what passes for a vaccine.
11 responses to “UPDATED: Neurologist visit”
Bugger. I’m so sorry. And people are bitching about not wanting to wear masks – it’s infuriating.
Alison McCaskill – well, I’ve got a plan now. It is contingent on having them not find a thing wrong with my heart at the stress test Tuesday, and on my body tolerating the statin well, and if all goes well maybe I’ll be out next year.
I hope that all works out! Sorry about the opera this year, but… yeah.
KC- passed my stress test, anyway.
KC- passed my stress test, anyway.
Congratulations! (out of entirely idle curiosity since I’ve had three things that can be described as a stress test and there are probably more, which kind of stress test was it?)
KC -“STRESS ECHO WITH DOPPLER” – I had an ultrasound of my heart with 90 photos, then I walked in a treadmill with a blood pressure cuff, then after 6 minutes they hustled me off the treadmill and I had another very fast ultrasound.
Ooooh, fancy! That is one I have not had (and, frankly, hope to not have, because if I had it then that would indicate they were thinking something differently-weird was going on with my heart and they want to figure things out and I don’t want my heart to do anything suspicious, let alone bad).
I am so glad you passed the test. Are they still flailing around about what might be wrong, or are you down to “huh, well, that was weird, we don’t know what went wrong but you seem to be fine aside from the previously-known stuff”?
KC – I think the ball’s in my court. I can go back to my premise that it’s a pulled muscle, only, it doesn’t feel like a pulled muscle anymore. It feels like my interior elasticity is going away. I’m think9ng I can give it a month to either go away or get worse.
Did they check for dislocated ribs?
KC – if I’d had a dislocated rib I would have died during the ultrasound.