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Current Mood: Sickly

Lately, I’ve been a bit blue because all my spam is in Russian. At first I dismissed it, thinking, who cares what language the spam on my blog is in. Then I realized I do! I missed having something to go to for a laugh when I logged in. All the stupid keywords and the ridiculous emails. Like 1jk2hsfnk@hotmail.com. I could translate the Russian ones I suppose but I want my spam in my language. Is that too much to ask? Although today I did get one that was in English but it wasn’t a good one. Also there’s another one in English that I’ve gotten two copies of from the same source and its for Sonic the Hedgehog DVDs. Its quite amusing. I assume that’s from my talking about my lovely Henry (the hedgehog) on here.

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From Skullgrl & Henry the Grumblehog

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Current Mood: Sickly & Thinking

I was diagnosed last month with a condition called RND. It has a lot of other names and many different forms. One of the other names I am familiar with is Pain Amplification Syndrome. When I’m talking to people I usually use both. Mostly because when I say Pain Amplification Syndrome, I feel like I just made up a name for my condition! PAS doesn’t sound very . . . real. I’ll be taking something of a break from blogging while I’m getting better. Although I may update here and there.

What is RND?

Pain is usually a response to tissue damage. This damage uses the pain nerve to send a signal to ones spinal cord, which in turn sends a signal to your brain which recognizes the signal of pain.

With my condition there is a short circuit in my spinal cord. The pain signal is not only sent to my brain, it’s also sent to some other nerves, the neurovascular ones to be exact. Those bad boys control blood flow but they’re a bit wimpy when it comes to these signals. They get all scared and decide to make the blood vessels to constrict. Think of it as a chain of bullying. Now, constricted blood vessels equals decreased blood flow. This means less oxygen everywhere and it leads to a build up of acids, both of these things cause more pain. At which point the whole process starts all over again.

I got the information I used to write this little blurb from this very helpful handout. It has a nice diagram too!
http://www.rsds.org/4/youth/pdf/AMP_RNDparentHandout.pdf

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Current Mood: Sad & Sickly

Thankfully, my pain killers have kicked in so I am able to type a bit but I’m still not really capable of getting a decent post out. This will have to do.

I was supposed to go back to Sick Kids emergency today but a boy died of H1N1 there recently (my parents told me about it and I didn’t ask when exactly). When they told me that my thoughts immediately turned to a friend who is sick and a day ago said that if her fever didn’t go down she would have to go to the hospital. I texted her to make sure she was OK and it turns out she knows the family of the boy who died. I’m very sorry for his family.

I’m not going to the hospital today or anytime soon for that matter, don’t need to be sick on top of all of this. I have almost no immune system as it is and it doesn’t help that I’m taking prednisone for the nasty joint inflamation that I’ve been dealing with for the past 3 and a half weeks. It hasn’t been much help but I don’t know if I can assess that properly until I’m off of it. I hate the way it makes me feel. Our dog takes it for his arthritis and now I understand why he gets so thirsty and crazy. The side effects are really poopy. I’m so glad that I only have to take it for a week! I didn’t realize it caused acne until just now, when I looked up the side effects. That sure does explain a lot. I feel like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, I’m so bloated. Its really bad.

I tried… I tried so hard yesterday to work on a new theme for my blog and I got absolutely no where. I can’t do anything right now and its driving me insane. There’s only so much TV one can watch before going batty. I can barely hold open books (I just want to read!), I can barely play on my PSP/DS. When I do it’s for a very limited time and only after my pain killers have kicked in. Yesterday, I forced myself to draw, and just grit my teeth through it and am paying for that today. I’m so bored! Even if I can do something physically, chances are that, because of the pain killers, I won’t be able to focus on it anyways. Also, right before all this started I was restringing Analiese and I can’t put her back together now! I just don’t have enough arm strength. I feel sorry for her, or maybe it’s just her disembodied face plate staring up at me that’s making me feel guilty.

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Current Mood: BLUHHH & Sickly

Another thing, besides blogging that cheers me up when I’m ill and feeling down is my lovely dollies. I’ve been slowly working on my first Blythe customization. Missy (ADG Love N’ Lace) is having her face edited, matted, completely repainted and having 2 sets of her chips changed. I switched out these chips from Asisi (who got a couple of Missy’s). 1 or 2 were cracked when I was removing them but its not too noticeable. I plan on one day buying them all new chips anyway. I’m asking for a bunch of Blythe stuff for Christmas. My Mom is actually bugging me to ask for some because she’s, “sick of seeing naked dolls all over the place.” My dolls keep me happy and sane in times like this. Analiese got some clothes from Luts recently! I haven’t been up to taking photos but she finally has a wig! (I’ll admit its kind of weird seeing her with hair now. Haha) Its a cute “fun” fur one! I’m not a big fan of real fur wigs. Although they are stunning in almost all cases. I’m OK with them when the whole animal is being used (killing something for just its fur, is stupid), but I still don’t really know if I want real fur. OHOH! I forgot to mention I got Hakon a new body! Squee! Its also by Luts but I got it from the DoA for a good price, especially considering how new it was! Its coming from the UK and should be here soon-ish. I’m planning on getting some optional hands for Hakon from Luts too, and some new clothes. Analiese got a set with jeans and I touched the jeans to her resin (I’m scared of staining after the bad experiences I’ve had with Hakon’s clothes. Silly Volks! Learn how to color fast!), nothing happened. I put them on, nothing happened. I left them on for awhile… Nothing happened! It was a magical moment! :D Although her black PJ’s left little purple circles on her butt-cheeks, it was cute in a quickly-scrub-with-a-no-name-brand-magic-eraser sort of way! (Mr. Clean is owned by P&G, they are bad people.)

(I had written more but I lost it when stupid Internet Explorer froze because it doesn’t like to have 20 tabs open split between 3 windows. I re-added what I can remember.)

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