I’m home after two days in the hospital!  I’ve had frequent headaches and vomiting accompanied by occasional burps since college. I thought  my eyes were the problem. I’m near-sighted, and I have astigmatism. But I think it’s not. Last Friday at work, I’ve had it. Still with headache, I went to my gastro specialist and this time she told me I have reflux. She thinks it could be from the extra weight I’ve gained since my last consultation with her. With extra weight, there’s added pressure on your stomach and there’s backflow of bile/stomach acids into your esophagus. She suggested me to lose weight, to take small frequent meals with no fatty foods, and to stay upright after eating. I went back upstairs to where I work (doctor’s clinic is on 2nd floor), and went on with my paperworks. After half an hour, I just couldn’t take it anymore. I vomited twice. Ugh. A friend told me to get myself admitted to get lab works done. And that’s what I did.

Two nights in the hospital and I finished Michael Crichton’s Disclosure. Yaaayy… Labs are within normal except for crea which is low. I work usually with patients on dialysis with crea 10x more than the normal limits. So yay coz my kidneys are functioning well. Apparently low crea isn’t really that bothersome. My doc did an endoscopy to rule out ulcerations or inflammations in my stomach or esophagus. They’re perfectly normal except she’d seen something on the monitor which helped her conclude that I have bile reflux and not ulcer. Ultrasound of whole abdomen comes next. All are normal except for… my uterus. I have a dermoid cyst. It’s benign but needs surgical removal. *sigh* Probably sometime in July or August. ;(   I’m so glad to be home. I miss my bed.