I have a framed quote on my wall “Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” I am tired of dancing.
Set a call yesterday with the GI doctor, my gastroparesis has worsened. He called at 9am. Discussion. Then he says “you not going to like what I’m going to say”. Yup, I already had an ideal what he would say. More testing, then surgery. He’s right I didn’t like it.
Then, yesterday was having a lot of chest pain, pressure. Sent a message to my doctor that if it kept up, I’d go to the instantcare and get an EKG. Docs not in but her PA sent back a message come in, we will do it here.
45 minute drive due to traffic. I get the EKG.
She says it’s fine, np. Alrighty then. I get a lot of irregular heart beats, some of the cause chest pain/pressure. I’m not worried until she says “but let’s have you do a two week ekg.” What? Ok so she saw something on the ekg, and she doesn’t want to say what. I say no. Then she says, well, you see your heart doc in December. I can call him and get that appointment set up sooner. Hmm, nope.
So now I will have more GI testing and then probably surgery. I’ve had a small bowel constriction since 2018 and if it’s still there “we’ll have to fix that”. Plus maybe surgery on my stomach as well. Then hip replacement, then the breast biopsy. Oh joy. Course heart doctor has to approve it all.
This is why my husband can never retire. I have had 23 surgeries. I need our medical coverage.
Set a call yesterday with the GI doctor, my gastroparesis has worsened. He called at 9am. Discussion. Then he says “you not going to like what I’m going to say”. Yup, I already had an ideal what he would say. More testing, then surgery. He’s right I didn’t like it.
Then, yesterday was having a lot of chest pain, pressure. Sent a message to my doctor that if it kept up, I’d go to the instantcare and get an EKG. Docs not in but her PA sent back a message come in, we will do it here.
45 minute drive due to traffic. I get the EKG.She says it’s fine, np. Alrighty then. I get a lot of irregular heart beats, some of the cause chest pain/pressure. I’m not worried until she says “but let’s have you do a two week ekg.”
What? Ok so she saw something on the ekg, and she doesn’t want to say what. I say no. Then she says, well, you see your heart doc in December. I can call him and get that appointment set up sooner. Hmm, nope.So now I will have more GI testing and then probably surgery. I’ve had a small bowel constriction since 2018 and if it’s still there “we’ll have to fix that”. Plus maybe surgery on my stomach as well. Then hip replacement, then the breast biopsy. Oh joy. Course heart doctor has to approve it all.
This is why my husband can never retire. I have had 23 surgeries. I need our medical coverage.
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. Torture.