Seamus’ Illness

As I’m sure most of you know, Seamus had a kidney stone a few weeks back and it has since passed. We were hopeful that after a few days he would be back to normal, but unfortunately that wasn’t the case and still isn’t.

Seamus is still feeling very under the weather and we’ve been in and out of the Doctors’ and the ER many times trying to figure out what’s wrong and why he’s feeling so terrible. Unfortunately most of the answers we got were the same and were along the lines of, “You’re probably just feeling a delayed sickness from the kidney stone, it happens. Just watch and wait and if things get worse come back.”

At first things did get better after being at home for a few days, but that didn’t last long. Since passing the stone he’s been struggling with bouts of nausea, loss of appetite, fatigue, muscle spasms, minor insomnia, general soreness and the like. The strangest thing that has us the most worried right now is a decent-sized swollen lump that appeared on his shoulder. We went back to the ER to get it checked out because it sprang up so quickly and was causing a dull pain and stiffness in his neck and shoulder. X-rays were done, nothing was found, we were told to ice it and go home. At least a week or two has gone by and it hasn’t gone down in size (luckily it hasn’t gotten any bigger or spread either which we were told to look for) and he’s still feeling the same symptoms. We don’t know what it could be and the doctors don’t seem to know either. They don’t believe it’s another stone or an infection from the stone which is what we thought it could be and even though we’re ruling things out they can’t seem to give a definitive answer of what may help other than some ibuprofen and rest.

As I’m sure you can imagine Seamus has been stressed out because of everything and he’s worried it could be something more serious so understand that’s why I’m giving you all updates and not him. I’ve been trying to keep him off the net so he can try to relax and not stress so much which could very well be causing him to feel this way. Some days are better than others and today has been the worst in awhile. I can only hope things get better as we see the doctor more and try to get a better diagnosis of what the hell is going on, but until then please be respectful and bear in mind that Seamus is feeling terrible right now so please take it easy on him and give him the support he needs. I try my best to keep his spirits lifted, but sometimes I don’t think it’s enough so please try to be kind and understanding.

I try to give updates through my Twitter, but I know a lot of you use Tumblr and check his tag so I figured I’d post something here, too. Thanks everyone for all of the kind words and support I’ve already gotten, I appreciate it all and I’m sure Seamus does too. Thanks for reading and I hope I cleared up some questions for those who have been out of the loop and want to know where their beloved Moose has been.

Lots of love,

Ash