Snarfle

It's my new word. I'm using it to describe breathing in and out simultaneously; also the sound made when one does so.

It's been happening a lot.

When I twitch, it feels like as my upper chest contracts, pushing the air out of my lungs, my diaphragm is sucking air into my lungs. It feels kind of like drowning. And choking.

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I made my mom a sweater. It's blue.

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I have received notification of my EEG appointment for 2 weeks away, and my follow-up neurology appointment for 2 weeks after that. I am once again cautiously optimistic about this whole thing. At this point any diagnosis would do. Or even a firm "it's not such-and-such" would suffice. The more things we know it isn't, the closer we get to figuring out what it is.