Not that I dislike dogs and wish to use their name in a negative way, but I am a big cat lover.
That aside, I am sick.
Not sick so as I am coughing in bed with a fever, but there is something fishy going on with my body. These recent years I appear to have an outburst of odd illnesses which I have never really experienced in the past all at once, be fine for a while, then get a sudden outburst again.
This time, I'm not so lucky. It started out around my back, waist and tummy area, and then spread all over down my arms and around my ankles and calves. It is also incredibly itchy. I would suddenly notice my unstoppable twitching fingers scraping my skin when I was asleep or when I would be deep in thought. This has lead to horrible "scrape-y" skin which bleeds when I catch it on things or when I scratch without much thought. Luckily on my arms it's not too noticeable, and I can easily cover my arms, legs, back and chest. But it still leaves me feeling blue.
Illness number 2 is that my right toenail has gotten infected.
I originally lost my nail about 2 years ago because, being the graceful creature I am, I thwacked it against the pavement. Because of that I began going to a nail salon to have my toes shellac-ed, adding sculpture/acrylic nails to my sorry looking stub of keratin to make it look longer and like, well....a normal nail. It had worked fine all this time, especially as my natural nail had begun to grow. However, when I went to the salon to have them redone last week I was told by the lovely lady there who often sees to my BFG tootsies that it appeared to be infected, and that I should get it seen by a doctor and not have my nails done.
Back to the dermatologist I go, then...
The third is an odd one, as I am not entirely sure if it is an illness or not.
About a month ago, I noticed a squeezing, slightly painful sensation in the upper area of my left side, above my breast. I thought nothing of it at first, as I think I had had a similar experience before and it has always resulted to nothing by the time I'd forgotten about it. Yet this time, it happened once a day about every 2 days, and then at one point I had it once a day for 2 days, then twice a day. But then nothing again for about a week.
It suddenly attacked me again yesterday evening, so I decided on going to see a doctor who specialised in internal medicine ("naika" in Japanese). I had my both my heart and lungs checked, to a result of "nothing peculiar".
It is a relief to know my heart and lungs are of good health but still worrying as I still occasionally get a tingling sensation in my left chest and below my ribs. After discussing it with a number of people I was told that it could be something in my breast such as the mammary gland, or maybe something to do with my nerves system.
It's annoying as it isn't such a pain, both metaphorically and literally, that I can't do anything, yet by the time I forget I feel sudden jabs. I'm not really sure what doctor I should go to if I do need to go to one. I suppose I should get everything checked up on, even if it does end up to be nothing and a one-time thing.
On the other hand, the wheels have started turning on both my new jobs. It's quite exciting! Though I really don't need or can't be sick. I should probably overlook my general lifestyle in terms of health too.
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