Monthly Archives: September 2005

So, the past few weeks I’ve been getting these really horrible stomach aches. I usually get them when I either drink too much alcohol, or when I get in a fight with Christopher (he gives me ulcers on top of everything else), but he and I haven’t had any knock-down drag-outs lately, and I haven’t had more than just a glass of wine here and there, so I couldn’t figure out what was causing them.
The stomach aches are pretty bad and when I have them, I can’t eat at all… even when I’m hungry…
I went to the doctor for my routine blood test (which I have to do every 6 weeks to check my thyroid levels because my piece of shit little thyroid decided at some point that it didn’t want to work very hard and preferred to go on welfare, and just expected my health insurance to pick up the tab on the thyroid pills that supplement the hormones that thyroid doesn’t produce any longer). So while I’m at the doctor, I mention my stomach aches and she tells me that maybe I should stop drinking alcohol altogether and stop eating spicy foods, blah, blah, blah.
When the blood tests come back, doctor calls me and says that they think they’ve found traces of a arsenic in my blood… Continue reading →