Exquisite Turmoil

Well, MRI is scheduled — March 5th. And a root canal on the 11th >.< Blah. Not really looking forward to that, but I suppose it needs to be done. As I’ve already said, I’ll update here once I get the results back from the MRI. Hoping that it’s just migraines and low blood pressure, but we shall see.

As to WoW — after much drama with our old guild (and I will not talk too much about that here, since I have no desire to foment drama), I am now somehow a guild leader in my own right. It’s a small guild made up of those of us who managed to get booted from our old guild (all I shall do is assure you that we were definitely in the right), and some people who left RwD before. We have our first Karazhan raid this Sunday! We’ll need to bring along some friends and maybe a PUG or two, but we’re hoping to prevail through sheer force of our awesomeness.

In any case, we have the awesomest name ever, and I’m sure that it will help to ensure our success. It reminds me of the names of some of the old top end EQ guilds. A large part of why I liked the name, I suppose.

Anyway, check out our uber guild site that has like.. no front page :p

Link of the day: Afterlife!

In case I haven’t mentioned it before we are (obviously) on the Rexxar server.

I am so, so awful at posting — truly. I’ll remember to blog for like a week straight, and then not blog at all for a month :p Anyway, lets get caught up here. Health issues, or MMOs first? Lets go for MMOs first, those are more fun.

Dan and I have been playing WoW again. It’s kind of a hard game to get away from, because it’s the only game where you can actually play with people. Playing with people is nice. We’ve been playing for.. a month now? I don’t recall exactly. In any case, we’ve been 70 for two weeks now (after 9ish /played to hit 70) and are enjoying the game immensely. Raiding is quite fun and we’re hoping to get in some real Kara progression with our guild (Running with Daggers). We’ve met some really great people through the guild and are also hoping for tons more heroic runs with them (for badges, of course) before Sunwell!

On to health issues (and I’m sure there will be more WoW updates at some point). If you’ve known me for some time, you probably know that I faint / black out / get dizzy practically every day and that I suffer from near constant headaches. Now that I *finally* have medical insurance other than crappy military care, I went in for a visit to the doctor to see if he can tell me anything other than “well it’s not a thyroid problem”. On a side note, I really really liked this doctor. Dr. Rubbelke for anyone in the Scottsdale area — I swear he spent nearly forty minutes talking to me today and finding out everything he could, and I’m sure anyone who has been to a doctor recently knows that you’re lucky if they spend five minutes with you.

In any case, he gave me a sample of some various migraine medicine to see if any of them clear up my headaches (when I get a really nasty one, not just my normal constant ones), but he doesn’t really know that I’m having migraines right now, since I lack light / noise sensitivity, any tenderness to the touch, and I am not incapacitated by my headaches (although I attribute a lot of that to my high tolerance for pain and my refusal to let a headache get in the way of my life), etc, etc, etc.. Basically I am lacking all of the symptoms of a migraine except for the nasty headache that is unresponsive to medicine :p

So anyway, he’s trying to get me set up (through my insurance company, of course, since they have to approve these things) for an MRI since the combination of headaches and seemingly unconnected black out spells seems strange to him. Anyway, I’ll keep everyone (that being, Ryan and Dan since no one else reads this :p) posted as to when my MRI is and what any results are. I’m sure they’ll discover that my brain has turned into some kind of computer chip to allow me to play MMOs more uberly, and then I’ll become a national wonder.