So, yesterday, I had a MRCP to look at why the CT said that I had an atrophied pancreas. Based on the results of the test, it’s not my pancreas, but my kidneys, that are atrophied. It’s highly unlikely that it is diabetes because I have been under good control A1C-wise since I was first diagnosed.
So an MRCP is an MRI where they put this plastic blanket on your chest (feels like the weight of an xray vest) and plug it into something on the table. That blanket tells the MRI to take an image every time you breathe out. It does this so it takes an image in the exact same situation every time, so apparently taking an image while breathing in may be different than when breathing out. Then, they have you hold your breath a bunch of times while they do 10-15 second images.
This MRI sucked. It really sucked big time. Here’s why, I’m a large person and MRI machines are rather small. But I am always able to breathe normally and get full, big breaths that leave me feeling like I got enough. This was not the case for this MRI. With the plastic blanket, I was not able to get a full breath. Not only that, but the MRI was apparently about an hour long (according to my parents, I was trying to just focus on one barely breathing breath at a time). An hour long with no breaks while laying down unable to get a very good breath while stuck in a small tube.
I was a hair’s breath away from squeezing that, “Get me the hell out of here” button they give you for MRIs. However, I knew that this could give my doctors some information, enough to rule some things out, and possible figure out some new things. But apparently, it was all just ruling things out. It doesn’t look like I have autoimmune or regular pancreatitis or hepatitis, so that’s probably good.
I am the proud owner of a fatty liver and atrophied kidneys.
On the energy front this week
This week has not been good for energy. I’ve been walking around having a hard time processing things and understanding what I’m looking at or reading with my eyeballs. Sometimes, I can’t even understand what I’m listening to.
Days where I have something else to do, like a doctors appointment or a procedure, generally exhaust me for the rest of the day. In the past four years, I have only come home from an appointment and cooked once and that was a week or so ago.
I’ve tried to think up some recipes to make, but my brain just isn’t there, so I’m thinking that I might have to switch my posting each week until I can get back to creating some recipes. So, I am going to share recipes that others have created and I have made at some point on one or both recipe days. I’m going to share a link to their site and maybe discuss if I can how I found the recipe, how it was, and ways that I plan on expanding on it.
What I cooked this week.
This week, I made fish balls and that’s it. That’s all I was able to make because it has been a really hard week for energy. Chronically ill living sucks sometimes. Here are the pictures I took of the fishballs.
The Chronically Ill Chef 