Sick, sick...sick

So, I stayed home from work today due to the fact I was running a 102 fever. I went to the doctor and I have some sort of bacterial infection (it just sounds bad). Thus ends my winter free of illness...I knew I wouldn't make it much longer.

To top it all off, my doctor has ordered me to get mutliple blood tests run because my lovely anemia is rearing its ugly head, as well as to test my thyroid for hyperthyroidism. I looked it up on Web MD and basically, it means your thyroid is producing too much hormone and causes your metabolism to work negatively against you. From what I understand, it can cause your body to metabolise everything including helpful nutrients you need causing you to lack essential nutrients and cause a whole host of problems...yuck. I am hoping that it is just my anemia, and not the other one at this point. However, I have noticed lately that I have been wanting to eat everything in sight (and I have been) and yet still am losing weight. Of course, yes, that is a good curse, but it is also causing me to feel sick because I am so hungry all the time. I absolutely have a fear of needles ever since my brief hospital stay in 2003. I think I had every medical student in the city poking me with a needle and by the time I left, I was black and blue...not a fun experience:-(

On a positive note, my blood pressure was down to 128 over 82, which is really, really good for me. When I was in college, I was actually on a water pill because my blood pressure was in the 170s.