Health Improving

This is just a short blog entry, mostly, to document my health.  

I skim through my blog entries before each of my medical appointments to remind me of things that should be discussed so I try to document these things here.  In this case, I'm slowly recovering from my latest bout of rather poor health so there isn't much to discuss about the recovery but discussing another unexplained illness with fever is notable.  

First, the title of this blog entry is "Health Improving" but this does not mean that my overall health is improving with few signs of my primary illness.  It simply is referring to my health improving after a couple of weeks of poor health.  My overall health still is what I would call "poor" so I didn't want to imply I'm miraculously getting better.  A "normal" day or "good" day still means a day that sees lousy health but not lousy enough to put me down on the couch.  

My fever was gone yesterday so that was some good news.  I'm definitely still recovering though.  I have no energy and I'm still sleeping a lot more than usual.  My nausea has lessened...  now I'm feeling more like my mast cell GI problem of feeling crampy and uncomfortable like I should not wander far from the bathroom.  My bone and joint pain has lessened a bit but is probably back down close to typical mast cell disease levels which is still worth mentioning.  

My breathing has improved.  In fact, last night was an extremely rare night when I was able to breathe effortlessly through the night as well as this morning, so far.  I wish I had more days and nights like that!  This effortless breathing thing is becoming increasingly rare since my first bout with COVID in 2020.

So, although my health is improving, my mast cells are still causing constant pain and associated symptoms...  and I'm still exhausted.  As an example, I just got up out of bed about a half hour ago, cleaned up and brushed my teeth, but now I just want to lay down on the couch because I'm out of energy.  Well...  I don't want to lay down...  I want to accomplish a few things this morning but my body is not cooperating though and is telling me I need more rest.  That being said, my health today is better than it was over the past couple of weeks so that is good.