5/9/07

I had an abdominal ultrasound, which consisted of mostly being poked in the ribs, which hurt. Geez! I don’t think I have that much fat in that area but apparently he felt the need to dig for clams in my ribs! Ouch!

I will be having an echocardiogram 5/14/07 and an endoscopy consult on 5/15/07 and my second psych visit on 5/18. The part I don’t like is they say you have to have an endoscopy consultation and then the procedure will be scheduled at that visit, so that’s still not the end of the preop testing. Plus I still have a nagging cough from the flu for almost 3 weeks now. I’m hoping it stops by then. I doubt that they can stick a scope down my throat if I’m coughing my head off, but I’ll keep my fingers crossed. Or maybe he can give me antibiotics in case I have a bacterial infection. Well, we’ll find out.

I warned my boss again that surgery is probably about a month away. I had already told him in early March I probably would have surgery in 1-3 months, and I was right. If everything goes well, it should be early to mid-June.

I’ve been waiting for this surgery over 3 months now. The waiting kills you, but after reading someone else’s profile who had waited 4 years, I feel like I have nothing to complain about. I haven’t had to go through a forced 6-month diet or denial by insurance, or losing my insurance and having to start all over again, like some people do. I do feel like they don’t make it easy. I have had to call the care coordinator multiple times to get call-backs and get paperwork done. Maybe that is to weed out people who aren’t serious but it is definitely frustrating. I just need to make it through the rest of these tests and I will be on the losing side soon enough.