Saturday, February 7
Overdue update
The_Rose
Tuesday was quite the day. We get to the doctor's office at the appointed time, and find out that we also have an appointment for pre-op. Hmmmmm.We talk to the doctor's assistant, and find out that they will be taking the hepatic adenoma out. The doctor comes in, and The_Rose is demanding that he use an
Invisible Man to show here where the issue is. My argument — A 12 inch tall model doesn't even begin to have the detail neccessary for what she wants. And I really don't think she needs to know the details to that degree either. That is simply obsessing, just like she did with the cancer issue. Especially given her family history, her sister having an appendix totally out of place, the details are liable to be quite different once she gets cut open. It might help her feel a little better, but it might be better to be thinking of other things. So we find that she is now scheduled for pre-op, so we go off on the shuttle form the clinic to the hospital, where she gets to give the same medical information that we've been giving, and then an even more specific information giving episode, and she gets a brief examination. She needs to drastically cut down on smoking, as her lung capacity is not good right now (a problem more with allergies than anything else I'm thinking). Then she gives 4 tubes of blood, and she's given a bracelet to wear (for blood type matching), and then she gets an EKG (normal), and then it's off to Radiology where she gets a chest X-ray.
That day was totally shot. And we really weren't expecting that.
Her date for the operation is now the 11th. I know she's not looking forward to it. I'm not either.
I got the size of this thing wrong as well I found out. It's about a lime-sized tumor. Which doesn't match any of the sizes I've heard previously. They will be taking her gall bladder and between one eighth to one quarter of her liver out. She'll be in intensive care afterward because of the possibility of it bleeding.
We need to discuss what is going to happen Wednesday night. I suspect that I'll be spending the night there in Gainesville.
Me
As for me, I'm feeling sick. I seem to have gas trapped in my small intestine, which is causing problems with my diaphram, so I'm not breathing like I want to be, I feel overly stuffed even when I haven't eaten anything. I'm getting some very small burps out, and those seem to really be helping things out. Trouble is, they are small so they're not getting all the gas out. And I can't force them. I'm also venting gas out the other end as well. I suspect that some apple cider I drank Thursday has introduced a bug that isn't giving me fits with diarrhea, just producing a bunch of gas that's making my life uncomfortable. It's not going to be good if I have to see the doctor this coming week for my gut issues.Computers
I hate computers. The family computer is down. XP is caught in a reboot loop. Same thing happened a few months ago, and I ended up replacing the video card and reinstalling XP. Now, I can't even reinstall XP because the CD-ROM drive decided to implode on me, and the CD burner refuses to read just about every CD I have stuck in it. It goes so far, then pfffft! can't read the CD. I guess I'll be buying a new CD-ROM drive this weekend. Check out what CompUSSR, Best Buy and Circuit City have on sale. Permanent link posted by bytehead @ 2/07/2004 04:23:00 AM
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