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For those of you who weren't aware, I spent a solid year and a half being sick.
The Symptoms: Heart beating too hard and/or too fast literally CONSTANTLY. Tingling in my feet, dizziness, shortness of breath, fainting spells, and major nausea. Whenever I laid down, the nausea became worse.
I was so behind on sleep that I would begin to dream while I was awake.
I went to the Emergency Room a handful of times, a cardiologist, and of course, the doctor countless times. Nothing was conclusive. Doctors kept focusing on stress. I kept pleading with them to look beyond stress.
Think of it like this. Someone is choking you and you can't breathe which is stressing you out. The doctors say, "Oh! It must be stress! Let's treat that!" all the while SOMEONES HANDS ARE AROUND YOUR THROAT. PLEASE TREAT THAT.
At one time I even thought the problem may have been my wisdom teeth. They were broken and had been for years. Maybe I was swallowing some sort of infection? I tried so many things to fix this mysterious sickness. I had my wisdom teeth yanked out, changed my diet, quit caffeine, started running ... I had EKGs done, had a holter moniter, an Ultrasound.. nothing. I was even tested for an ulcer.
I even resorted to talking to a psychic. Yes, I'm serious.
The psychic said it was something I was eating. Possibly gluten. Went to the doctor: It's not gluten. (Or Lupus, lol)
One day, my husband made the most interesting connection between my sickness.. and my pet rabbit, Chiyo. I had gotten him about a week before I had gotten sick. I thought about it, and he was right. I had exhausted all my other options, so my only choice was to get rid of my fluffy friend and see if I would recover.
He went to a totally awesome lady that brings animals to old-folks homes and schools for educational purposes and to make people happy. She even has a website where I can see photos of him if I want, so I know he's in an awesome home.
After Chiyo left, I. Cleaned. EVERYTHING. Everything with pet dander and dust, the vents, the walls, EVERYTHING...
It has been two months since we got rid of him and I have never felt better. My sickness.. that I had suffered for nearly two years, vanished within a week. It was incredible.
Does anybody know what it is about rodents that can affect people this way? It wasn't his bedding, it was him specifically. The sickness would get worse the messier his cage got. I used to use sawdust, but then switched to cedar. The cedar even seemed to help. I miss my little bean bun, but I'm glad he's in an awesome home and I'm so thrilled to be feeling better.
I would love to understand why this happened.
Thoughts anyone?
The Symptoms: Heart beating too hard and/or too fast literally CONSTANTLY. Tingling in my feet, dizziness, shortness of breath, fainting spells, and major nausea. Whenever I laid down, the nausea became worse.
I was so behind on sleep that I would begin to dream while I was awake.
I went to the Emergency Room a handful of times, a cardiologist, and of course, the doctor countless times. Nothing was conclusive. Doctors kept focusing on stress. I kept pleading with them to look beyond stress.
Think of it like this. Someone is choking you and you can't breathe which is stressing you out. The doctors say, "Oh! It must be stress! Let's treat that!" all the while SOMEONES HANDS ARE AROUND YOUR THROAT. PLEASE TREAT THAT.
At one time I even thought the problem may have been my wisdom teeth. They were broken and had been for years. Maybe I was swallowing some sort of infection? I tried so many things to fix this mysterious sickness. I had my wisdom teeth yanked out, changed my diet, quit caffeine, started running ... I had EKGs done, had a holter moniter, an Ultrasound.. nothing. I was even tested for an ulcer.
I even resorted to talking to a psychic. Yes, I'm serious.
The psychic said it was something I was eating. Possibly gluten. Went to the doctor: It's not gluten. (Or Lupus, lol)
One day, my husband made the most interesting connection between my sickness.. and my pet rabbit, Chiyo. I had gotten him about a week before I had gotten sick. I thought about it, and he was right. I had exhausted all my other options, so my only choice was to get rid of my fluffy friend and see if I would recover.
He went to a totally awesome lady that brings animals to old-folks homes and schools for educational purposes and to make people happy. She even has a website where I can see photos of him if I want, so I know he's in an awesome home.
After Chiyo left, I. Cleaned. EVERYTHING. Everything with pet dander and dust, the vents, the walls, EVERYTHING...
It has been two months since we got rid of him and I have never felt better. My sickness.. that I had suffered for nearly two years, vanished within a week. It was incredible.
Does anybody know what it is about rodents that can affect people this way? It wasn't his bedding, it was him specifically. The sickness would get worse the messier his cage got. I used to use sawdust, but then switched to cedar. The cedar even seemed to help. I miss my little bean bun, but I'm glad he's in an awesome home and I'm so thrilled to be feeling better.
I would love to understand why this happened.
Thoughts anyone?
Back into the swing of things
I'm trying to get back into posting on DeviantArt as well as my Twitter page. I've set aside sculpting for a long time and am more focused on drawing. None of my drawings are done digitally, mostly because I've never learned how to and my knowledge of computers is.. well.. almost nonexistent.
Copic Nightmare.
Lately I have been up to my eyeballs in Copic Sketch marker practice and it's either very successful or very horrible.
Tutorial after tutorial.. after tutor..i..al.. hnnnnggg...
The most difficulty I've been having with these markers is coloring large, detailed areas. I wind up having one of two problems. Either A. I get lots of lines from coloring too fast/too slow or B. I get the blotchy effect from lying down too much ink. Dark skin tones is proving to be such a challenge for me, and there are SO many pieces I want to color with dark skin tones. Deep reds and blues even for specific characters, I just can't accomplish it.
I'm not giving
Wandering the World
I never forget about DeviantArt and I check it all the time, but posting is another story.
I've stepped away from sculpting ponies for a while and really started drawing and experimenting with Copic Sketch Markers, which I am now addicted to. I've also started customizing Littlest Pet Shop figures into Pokemon.
I've been a little lost this past year. I returned to Minnesota recently after spending two and a half months in France. My original plan was to teach English in Russia - so I studied Russian for a couple years, but that fell through and my life sent me to France. I don't even speak the language.
Actually, I lived with someone in F
Oh yeah, I have a Journal.
I am on DA nearly every day, yet I have somehow managed to forget I have a journal.
I've started drawing again. Coloring even. For the longest time I just couldn't stand it because I have too much noise in my head constantly. I have finally gotten my mind to quiet down and I am drawing all the time now. It's really enjoyable.
I haven't been sculpting as much, but I am currently finishing up a Derpy Hooves and I have plans to attempt a human sculpt.
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That is hard. Even to read. And interesting at the same time. Especially because you have a house cat as well.
I'm not a medic or have any education of that sort.
And still, i believe in some sort of allergic reaction because of your symptoms. Rabbit hair has several layers and the fine ones can trigger a reaction on sensitive human. For the same reason are some people allergic on cats, but not on dogs.
However, if you want certainty there's a way now. Because you know the cause of your illness, a doctor can now encircle the possible threats and maybe he finds the real reason. If that was really only a allergy of something, there's a high possibility of a treatment and preventative medicaments. If not, then at last you now what was wrong with you.
The only downside: I don't know if you have to pay for that by yourself.
Sometimes, it's unfortunate but medical science can only search for one thing at a time. Without any clues, a patient can die just because there's not enough time to make every test that's possible.