Well, I am losing weight VERY slowly, but at least it is coming off! I am very glad to be quite a bit below 300! Although I’d really like to lose weight faster so that my health can get even better, I am happy that I am already feeling much healthier. My pseudotumor has really stopped acting up. I’m getting far fewer headaches and the worst trouble with my eyes has greatly decreased. I still get wavy vision and cloudiness in my eyes, but not nearly as often. I saw the doctor about two months back and they said that the most recent scans showed that the inflammation in my eyes is WAY down. That’s fantastic! I still sometimes get a lot of pressure in my head and spine (and once in a while have been getting weird nerve flares down my body), but overall the frequency has decreased. For a while I literally had a headache like 95% of the time. Now I am really trying to allow myself to stop worrying about my health and focus on my classes.

I suppose it seems that coming back after being sick and getting better should be easy. However, I’ve found that it is REALLY hard. After losing study habits and getting behind in so many classes over the long period of my illness, I developed a kind of anxiety and mental block to studying properly. Seriously, I am amazed at how my great study habits and other student skills got swept away. However, I am really trying hard to come back even while my health still has a ways to improve. Last term, I broke a 3.0 GPA for the first time since I’ve been sick (with the exception of my summer Biochem classes  that I took one at a time). So, that’s something. Hopefully, this term I can get myself up to at least a 3.4.

So, almost 60 pounds down and another 110 to go! Hopefully, it will come a little faster from here on out. However, even if it takes a year or two to reach truly great and lasting health, then I am OK with that too. Bye for now!