A few things I now know aren't plaguing me

As regular readers know, I got a late afternoon appointment with a new doc yesterday. He was great, definitely going to make him our regular family physician. Very thorough, listened to me without making me feel like a spaz or a hypochondriac. Ran a full battery of tests. EKG was normal. He took x-rays of my skull/sinuses to check and see if there are any sinusitus related reasons I'm feeling so bad. Took plenty of blood (I've got a sore and bruised inner elbow) and is going to run a battery of tests.

There are a lot of things that could explain the vertigo symptoms I'm having (dizziness, nausea, fatigue, occasional fever), including thyroid abnormalities (run in my family), severe sinusitis (not likely as I'm not having any sniffling/sneezing issues, anemia (not likely based on my good color), and MVP. Then there are all the scary things. MS, cancer, etc. I'm not even thinking of those things right now. No need. Why worry before you have to.

He asked me not to do the 12 hour event this weekend. Can't say I disagree. I'm allowed easy rides - short and low speed, walks (no running yet) and easy weight lifting. No swimming until we know what's wrong. I'm going to enjoy several days of exercise ease and get plenty of sleep.

I'm ready for Hashi or his alter-ego anonymous to make fun of my "perceived" illness, and I'll smile as I always do. But really, I'm just glad I found a doc who's willing to go the extra mile to ensure we find out what's wrong and fix it, finally and completely.

Hopefully the other girls will post over the next week, as I'm gonna be pretty boring blog/training-wise.