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pjthompsonThanks to everyone who sent well wishes. I appreciate them a great deal.
Well, I feel better then I have since my mother told me last week that the doctor wanted to see me along with her. Talking to him, not getting things filtered through my mom's own sense of worry and anticipation of doom, eased some of the alarm. Things are not completely rosy—mom's got fluid around the heart. But that's probably due to the aggressive med (Menoxydyl) they had her on to bring down the blood pressure and other chems. Once they yanked her off that med last week, their theory was that the fluid would start to go away. Indications are that's happening, but we won't know for sure until her next ecocardiogram next week. In the meantime, they've given her a patch that should help with the skyrocketing bp. Still no indication when they can do the kidney procedure. Not until the fluid's gone, at any rate.
I think the doctor mostly wanted to see me today to cross all the t's and dot all the i's and cover his a--. Perhaps I'm too skeptical of the medical profession, but having had my thyroid disease badly mishandled by an arrogant chump some years back, I have reason to be mistrustful. Even so, I feel better than I did this morning.
Until the next time of alarm, this blog will now return to its regularly scheduled piffle. But maybe tomorrow. I'm rather exhausted tonight.
Well, I feel better then I have since my mother told me last week that the doctor wanted to see me along with her. Talking to him, not getting things filtered through my mom's own sense of worry and anticipation of doom, eased some of the alarm. Things are not completely rosy—mom's got fluid around the heart. But that's probably due to the aggressive med (Menoxydyl) they had her on to bring down the blood pressure and other chems. Once they yanked her off that med last week, their theory was that the fluid would start to go away. Indications are that's happening, but we won't know for sure until her next ecocardiogram next week. In the meantime, they've given her a patch that should help with the skyrocketing bp. Still no indication when they can do the kidney procedure. Not until the fluid's gone, at any rate.
I think the doctor mostly wanted to see me today to cross all the t's and dot all the i's and cover his a--. Perhaps I'm too skeptical of the medical profession, but having had my thyroid disease badly mishandled by an arrogant chump some years back, I have reason to be mistrustful. Even so, I feel better than I did this morning.
Until the next time of alarm, this blog will now return to its regularly scheduled piffle. But maybe tomorrow. I'm rather exhausted tonight.
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Date: 2005-07-02 03:14 am (UTC)