Update: Finally Some Answers
Holy heck, body. What in the world?
I came home yesterday. Finally.
I spent an entire week in the hospital — first in my little town, then in Erie. Finally, though, I have a diagnoses, a couple of prescriptions, and I’m feeling remarkably better.
Which feels something like a miracle, because I really felt over the last week like I was dying. That’s not hyperbole. Everything in me, every system, just — wound down.
It was like my body was closing up shop. Everything was on half speed. And then my emotions went all wonky. For two days, I couldn’t stop crying. I knew it was ridiculous, but I couldn’t do anything to make it stop.
Even if I wasn’t dying, I was so sick. If this was how I was going to feel the rest of my life, then my life was going to have to change drastically.
So feeling good? That’s something I’m going to try not to take for granted ever again.
I had an MRI on my brain this week.
It verified that I have something called an ‘empty sella’ — which has to do with my pituitary gland. Sometimes fluid gets into the place where the pituitary gland lives, called the sella turcica, and flattens the pituitary gland. So it doesn’t show up well (or at all) on an MRI.
