Continuing the medical visits

Sorry I didn't add a disclaimer to the last post. Please know that dispite anything you read on here, I am home safe and well.

Mike called me the day after the ER visit and said that he was on his way to Utah to go to my dr visits for the week. I think he thought that Trish and I were having too much fun or something and not taking things serious. And since Mike was there instead of Trish there are no pictures for this week. Sorry.

Monday afternoon I had a DEXA scan. Nothing thrilling there. Very uneventful.

Tues I got to visit my GI dr. He is getting to know me; maybe better than he wants to. He gives me a hard time. He is a nice guy. I told him about my elevated blood level and my trip to the ER. This blood level is not supposed to be over 125 and mine was well over 1,000. He said that 1,000 is high but they don't get too concerned until it is 10's of thousands or hundreds of thousands. I do have a muscle biopsy in a couple of weeks. We will see if anybody figures anything out from that.

Wed I met up with my GI dr again. He did my scope. This is how it went from my point of view. I walked into the exam room and laid on the table. They gave me some happy juice in my IV. My world started getting fuzzy and spinning. The next thing I knew, the nurse was making me wake up. I hate that. I am sleeping so restful and they start yelling that I have to wake up. Then the nurse tells me that my heart had raced for about 7-8 seconds during my procedure and cardiology would be coming to check me out. (FYI:  I did not walk out of the exam room). 

My app't was at 11:30 and I left the hospital about 5:30. My procedure only last a half hour. I think I might have beat Rachel with that recovery time. I learned that about 2 minutes into my procedure, my heart started racing. I think they called it afib. Cardiology did an echocardiogram and an EKG. Everything checked out fine. They think the epidode was caused by medication. My dr was able to complete my procedure. That was good news. I'll bet he will think twice before doing another scope on me. (I guess I'd do anything to get out of those yucky scopes).  I do have to wear a heart monitor for a month to double check that everything is ok. Those same meds have never had that effect on me before.

At first my nurse was really low key and matter of fact about my heart episode. After my heart checked out ok, I guess she decided I wouldn't have a heart attack so she told me that I had them pretty concerned for a couple of minutes. My nurse was exceptionally nice. When they came to do a blood draw, she came over and held my hand. It made me laugh (to myself). How many millions of blood draws have I had? But it was very thoughful and sweet of her. She also stuck around until I was released. Fortunately for her, that was just a few minutes beyond when she should have quit.


After all that excitement, Mike decided that he had had enough fun for one week and it was time for him to go home and back to work.

Meanwhile, I had one more app't. Thur I visited with my friends at nutrition support. It's a good thing they don't charge by the hour because I was there for a couple of hours. The 1st 15 minutes or so was social. These people have helped me through getting started on TPN and all my complications for over 19 yrs. It's nice to check in with them and they still give me ideas about TPN and other things.

I finally decided that I had had enough fun and it was time for me to go home. But don't worry I have several more app't scheduled in SLC in the next month.