Thursday, June 5, 2008

What's wrong with dark green soba?



I went to the doctor today. For the past 5 days or so, I felt this 'pressure' or 'blockage' in my chest. The discomfort would occur at different periods of the day, for 15 minutes to an hour, and at varying intensities. I couldn't tell if it was respiratory or digestive. It felt similar to when I sometimes smoked a cigar and felt a tightness in my chest. But it also felt like I wanted to ralph. Last night the pain stopped. And it didn't really come back until now (a full 24 hours later).

So the doctor did the usual tests and couldn't really find a problem. If anything, it may have been triggered by general stress and anxiety. Then she decided to poke my abdomen a bit. When she poked the lower right side, I felt a sharp pain. But no pain upon release of the pressure.

The overall diagnosis (according to my insurance claim form) was the possibility of Pneumothorx. Google didn't really help in this one, but it's basically air escaping from my lung? Sure whatevs. In the extreme case, I have a slightly inflamed appendix, which can lead to appendicitis. It wasn't severe because I didn't feel pain after the poking pressure was released. If I felt worse, she told me to go back for blood work and so forth. Today's highlight though was the clubhouse bagel for lunch. It's been a while since bagels. Wait, who am I kidding? Highlight of the day was finally hooking up that interview with Bart Language School for that English Narrator position. Imagine MY voice on ESL CD's!