Get an Uber your worth it...
Digitalwanderer
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I live in the exoburb going to a suburban hospital about 17 miles away and Uber is no where near as good here as it is in more heavily populated areas so I don't want to go through the hassle.
Besides, they're just drilling a little core sample out of my hip. How hard could it be?
Currently waiting for my wife to come back from heart stress testing and worrying about a thing I need to get done tomorrow isn't high on my priority list. Going to wait to see how she's doing and if she can come home today before I think anymore about tomorrow.
All I know for sure about tomorrow is that I'm getting it done. It's the only way I can get the results back and find them out by Friday so one way or another I'll get it done.
digitalwanderer
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Good news! My wife's heart is fine and healthy and I just brought her home. 
digitalwanderer
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The good news keeps rolling in! My wife took me to the hospital, I get anesthesia!
In a gown hooked up in a hospital bed now and looking forward to getting this done.
In a gown hooked up in a hospital bed now and looking forward to getting this done.
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It all went well, very little pain and we're already stopped for lunch on the way home.
Easy peasy lemon squeezy.
Easy peasy lemon squeezy.
Core samples (lol) are something you feel the next day, and multiple subsequent days thereafter hehe.
Glad you're out and good, and also glad Mrs Wanderer received her clean bill of health too!
Glad you're out and good, and also glad Mrs Wanderer received her clean bill of health too!
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Almost, they know what's wrong now. It has a really long and complex name I forget but there's basically a tiny flap in her esophagus that shouldn't be there and if food gets in it her system reacts with the violently being sick thing. Good news is she got it fixed last year with a botox injection to the flap but it has to be repeated every year and she's overdue. She has an appt next week to get it done and it's an easy in and out procedure.
You ain't kidding about the core sample! I just woke up from passing out after getting home and my left hip is sore! Not nasty painful but definitely unpleasant, worth it though.
Bill being the operative word....
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We maxed out our deductible back in August and our insurance doesn't roll over til June, no bills from this.
Slightly less pleasant is they found some things in my sample, "Abnormal immunological finding and serum, evaluate for MM,amyloidosis.". When I googled it I found I have between 9 months and 10 years left to live, I think I'll wait until I talk to the doc on Friday. This is why I don't google medical stuff.
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Saw the doctor, cancer free and they didn't find anything else scary.
HAPPY FRIDAY!
HAPPY FRIDAY!
Glad the bill of health is back to all green! We love having you here, and hope you continue to post with us for many more decades
Fabulous, and why no-one should ever Google health conditions (unless you've got a strong constitution)!
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Had an extensive and grueling second EMG test today but it was worth it, the doc thinks I might have CIDP. They're going to do another EMG on my right side, (they did my left today), to confirm but if it is CIDP they can not only treat it but they can cure it and there's a good chance I'll get some feeling and control back!
CIDP is basically my autoimmune system attacking my nervous system. If that's what I have they'll suppress my immune system to let my nerves heal is how I'm understanding it.
I'm exceedingly happy, closest we've been to an answer yet.
CIDP is basically my autoimmune system attacking my nervous system. If that's what I have they'll suppress my immune system to let my nerves heal is how I'm understanding it.
I'm exceedingly happy, closest we've been to an answer yet.
glad to know you are much closer to know what might be affecting you. Autoimmune system illnesses can be a pita, a brother of mine and his wife both have one of those. My brother is 44 years old and 3 years ago he suffered one of those autoimmune illnesses, the doctors didn't know what it was, but the initial diagnosis were really really scary, as they initially thought it was terminal cancer or multiple sclerosis... It turned out to be something different, fortunately, but it's his own autoimmune system causing that.Had an extensive and grueling second EMG test today but it was worth it, the doc thinks I might have CIDP. They're going to do another EMG on my right side, (they did my left today), to confirm but if it is CIDP they can not only treat it but they can cure it and there's a good chance I'll get some feeling and control back!
CIDP is basically my autoimmune system attacking my nervous system. If that's what I have they'll suppress my immune system to let my nerves heal is how I'm understanding it.
I'm exceedingly happy, closest we've been to an answer yet.
He has a normal life right now and does a lot of exercise, sports (strength and running stuff), and he is healthy, fortunately.
Wish you a full recovery and healthy life.
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And I finally got to see my neurologist about the results and it was the first tine they had looked at them, guess there was some miscommunication. Now my neuro wants my right side to have an EMG and for me to get a spinal tap for confirmation. She said she wanted me to see her colleague who is who gave me the EMG and she'd talk to them about getting me in soon.
Central scheduling called and scheduled my spinal tap in a few weeks and the EMG they said the earliest they had was late April so I took it. Got a call the next day from her colleague's NP who wanted me to cancel my EMG since they want to do it themselves again which is fine but said the soonest they could get me in was mid June.
I started this whole thing back in Jan 23. Mentioned to the nice NP that my neuro said they'd talk to them about getting me in sooner since my neuro had offered to hospitalize me to get it taken care of faster but I couldn't for at least a month since my wife had her knee replaced a couple of weeks ago.
She said she'd talk to the doc and get back to me. That was Thurs and I ain't heard nothing. Can't decide if I'm depressed or pissed but there's a lot of not happy going on in my head about it right now and I needed to whine somewhere. Thanks for letting me.
Central scheduling called and scheduled my spinal tap in a few weeks and the EMG they said the earliest they had was late April so I took it. Got a call the next day from her colleague's NP who wanted me to cancel my EMG since they want to do it themselves again which is fine but said the soonest they could get me in was mid June.
I started this whole thing back in Jan 23. Mentioned to the nice NP that my neuro said they'd talk to them about getting me in sooner since my neuro had offered to hospitalize me to get it taken care of faster but I couldn't for at least a month since my wife had her knee replaced a couple of weeks ago.
She said she'd talk to the doc and get back to me. That was Thurs and I ain't heard nothing. Can't decide if I'm depressed or pissed but there's a lot of not happy going on in my head about it right now and I needed to whine somewhere. Thanks for letting me.
digitalwanderer
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I prefer "Big Bottoms" or "Stonehedge".
Just got a call from the nurse practitioner of the neuro I'm being referred to and she spoke to the neurologist who told her it was important to get me in asap and they're talking to central scheduling to get my EMG moved up to next week and they put me on the high priority cancel list for any appts coming up. Basically everything I could have hoped for, depression is lessened!
Just got a call from the nurse practitioner of the neuro I'm being referred to and she spoke to the neurologist who told her it was important to get me in asap and they're talking to central scheduling to get my EMG moved up to next week and they put me on the high priority cancel list for any appts coming up. Basically everything I could have hoped for, depression is lessened!
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