So my Next Chapter has yet a sidebar.....
I went to the Stroke Clinic last Thursday to have my follow up appointment from the TIA I had in July. Since then, I've been feeling pretty good, getting out for walks, taking my daily aspirin. Nothing like a good kick in the pants to bring you right back to reality!
I have been diagnosed with FMD or Fibro Muscular Dysplasia....big word for misshapen arteries. Hello? When did this happen. It's genetic, so nothing that I've done wrong, and it's never, ever going away. Now starts the long testing process to see just how much damage there is (if any), monitoring ultrasounds, medications, and on and on.
Since Thursday, I have been an absolute mess and that's my own doing. When I left the Stroke Clinic, both doctors sent me on my way, wishing me bon voyage for our Japan/China trip and said they'd be in touch re more specialist appointments. They weren't the harbingers of doom and gloom. I did that very nicely on my own, thanks to Dr. Google. To say I became catatonic would be putting it mildly.
I woke up this morning and said "enough". Crying, wallowing time is over. I am getting my clothes together for our amazing trip tomorrow and I've decided to put my little FMD in a box and make it stay on my shelf until we get home and the I am going to tackle this bugger like nobodies business. I may have surgeries, stents, renal issues in my future, but for now, I'm trying to focus on the present. I feel good, I have the best family in the world and dammit, I'm going to be around for a long time.
FMD?? LOL to YOU!!
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