Re: Checking In
- From: "L." <gentleboa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 30 Jun 2006 01:28:06 -0700
CatNipped wrote:
I know I'll never get caught up again just being able to read the group on
weekends (around doing my chores) - so purrs for everyone who needs them.
Can someone tell me if Smudge got home?
Unfortunately, I have more bad news here.
I think I posted about a migraine I had Monday - I had to take off Tuesday
to go to the doctor's office since it wouldn't go away (this is the first
migraine I've had in years, so I didn't have any medication for it at home).
At the doctor's office my blood pressure was 150 over 90 ("normal" for me is
90 over 70)!!! The doctor gave me Relpax, but told me it could raise my
blood pressure. While I was there I mentioned a pain in my stomach I've
been having (and a weird swelling just on one side of my stomach after I
eat - I just wrote it off as a weird side effect of my gastric bypass
surgery from two years ago).
The doctor sent me back to the surgeon who did the surgery (I figured, what
the heck, I better get all medical issues over with before I lose this job
and don't have any insurance). First off, on Wednesday when I saw the
surgeon my blood pressure was 160 over 101!!! Then the surgeon felt my
stomach and said something is definitely amiss. He said it either a hernia,
a tumor, or something that went wrong with the surgery (possibly adhesions).
Whatever it is it, is probable that I'll need surgery. I have to go have a
CT scan tomorrow and a "barium swallow" on Wednesday. My boss won't let me
take just a few hours off each day - he's making me use up my "Paid Time
Off" (PTO) hours which means that's that many fewer hours I'll be able to
take off for job hunting. Then I'll have to use up any time I may have left
if I have surgery done.
Sigh, I guess it never rains but it pours!
Yikes! Hope it all turns out to be something minor. FWIW, adhesions
usually cause a "pulling" sensation or pain when you move certain ways.
Good luck and chin up!
-L.
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