2022/10/15 Follow-up Appointments

When I called my doctor re the last UTI, I got a call back with a prescription. Within days, though, I also got notice of a CT scan, and a call for an appointment for a pelvic exam.
Blood from any orifice tends to get attention, and particularly if you have a history of cancer.

My CT scan and my appointment would be after my visit to my sister for US Thanksgiving One of the things that is always a toughie is when to share personal information, especially with those who you know will worry, when they don't need more worry, and worrying isn't going to do anything. I guess, in a way, I also did not want our time together to be about my health, or lack thereof. It was hard enough to share how much bladder incontinence that I had due to my persistent cough. Ugh. So, I didn't let her know, though I know that in doing so, my mind was on the awareness that I was holding something back from her.

For the pelvic exam, I could choose my family doctor or I could choose the Nurse Practioner.
I decided to go with the NP.

Although one can set these items aside, there is always the awareness of aches and just oddities with ones body. When going through the hoops of followup appointments, these add to the anxiety. Though most wouldn't find me anxious, I found myself cocooning. I am aware of a weight of awaiting the tests.


** I am writing these in Feb 2023, but have added the approx dates to the title to keep them in order.

 

[jimkenney12]

I hope those tests go well.

 

[JayneWonders]

Jim, I will write more but yes, this happened in the late fall. I will go back and edit dates. Tests are ongoing, one thing leads to another. Still some to come.

 

[jimkenney12]

That happens. A swelling in the muscle behind Bs left eye led to the removal of the middle lobe of her right lung six months later. Sinus issues a few years earlier led to the diagnosis of a benign meningioma which was eventually treated by surgical radiation the month after the swelling in the eye muscle was detected. It causes a bit of anxiety every time a scan or test is done.

 

[Luce NDs]

How many healers would catch such irreguilarity when in a dia Gnostic rush? Been there dealt with such irregularity ... a lot of complex folk tell me I lie about my health ... little do they know of what's innere!