Ok so, my pre-surgery physical didn't quite go off without a hitch.
She's my new primary care doc, so she wants to do all kinds of fun tests.
The nurse checked me in and weighed me, I'm down to 169.10lbs, then she took me to a room and took my blood pressure.
My blood pressure is really high because of the thing wrong with my neck, the spinal cord compression.
So she takes it and it's 137 over 98.
Then the doc comes in, asks me all kinds of questions about my history, natural childbirths, my surgical history etc, then takes my blood pressure.
It's now at 147 over 110, extremely high, she thinks I'm having a heart attack in her office, so she opens the door, hollers for the nurse to bring in the EKG machine, they strap me down, stick all those things on me, and the whole time I'm trying to explain it's not a heart attack, it's just my blood pressure due to my neck, but she's not listening.
The results of the EKG come back just fine, no heart attack.
Um, yeah, listen to me people!
But now she's super concerned, puts me on water pills every morning to help lower my blood pressure, and then orders a whole new battery of tests.
Tomorrow morning I have to go to the lab for a full work up and several other tests, she's gonna shit bricks when she sees my white cell count, I already know it, they all shit bricks when they see that number.
But come on people!
It's not normal for a body to have 26inches of titanium rods running the lentgh of your spine, nor is it normal to have 32 pedicule screws, of course my white cells, that little army of blood cells that fight off infections, are going to be in high numbers trying to fight off the foreign objects attached to my spine!
Then next week, the real doctor fun begins.
I have Monday September 1st off, (so far) then Tuesday, I go see my surgeon for my pre-surgery consultation.
On Wednesday, I go back to see the primary care doc to get the results of the lab work and the real full physical including the gyno pap and swabby joy joy.
Then Thursday, I go back to see my pain doc for my last visit with him before my surgery.
Then on Friday the 5th, I get to go have a mammogram. (Oh rapturous joy!)
Then on Monday the 8th, surgery.
It's all moving way, way too fast now.
Every new medical appointment just means it's getting closer to the actual day, and nope, still not ready yet.
But I did get in to see my pain doc today, I made it to his office before 11:45, and he gave me my script, so at least I don't have to worry about being in pain all next week when things start getting crazy busy for me.
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She's my new primary care doc, so she wants to do all kinds of fun tests.
The nurse checked me in and weighed me, I'm down to 169.10lbs, then she took me to a room and took my blood pressure.
My blood pressure is really high because of the thing wrong with my neck, the spinal cord compression.
So she takes it and it's 137 over 98.
Then the doc comes in, asks me all kinds of questions about my history, natural childbirths, my surgical history etc, then takes my blood pressure.
It's now at 147 over 110, extremely high, she thinks I'm having a heart attack in her office, so she opens the door, hollers for the nurse to bring in the EKG machine, they strap me down, stick all those things on me, and the whole time I'm trying to explain it's not a heart attack, it's just my blood pressure due to my neck, but she's not listening.
The results of the EKG come back just fine, no heart attack.
Um, yeah, listen to me people!
But now she's super concerned, puts me on water pills every morning to help lower my blood pressure, and then orders a whole new battery of tests.
Tomorrow morning I have to go to the lab for a full work up and several other tests, she's gonna shit bricks when she sees my white cell count, I already know it, they all shit bricks when they see that number.
But come on people!
It's not normal for a body to have 26inches of titanium rods running the lentgh of your spine, nor is it normal to have 32 pedicule screws, of course my white cells, that little army of blood cells that fight off infections, are going to be in high numbers trying to fight off the foreign objects attached to my spine!
Then next week, the real doctor fun begins.
I have Monday September 1st off, (so far) then Tuesday, I go see my surgeon for my pre-surgery consultation.
On Wednesday, I go back to see the primary care doc to get the results of the lab work and the real full physical including the gyno pap and swabby joy joy.
Then Thursday, I go back to see my pain doc for my last visit with him before my surgery.
Then on Friday the 5th, I get to go have a mammogram. (Oh rapturous joy!)
Then on Monday the 8th, surgery.
It's all moving way, way too fast now.
Every new medical appointment just means it's getting closer to the actual day, and nope, still not ready yet.
But I did get in to see my pain doc today, I made it to his office before 11:45, and he gave me my script, so at least I don't have to worry about being in pain all next week when things start getting crazy busy for me.
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