NO LAP BAND SURGERY

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My name is Mindy and I am a wife and mother of 2 boys, Ages 20 and 12. I recently started on the path of becoming a nurse something i have wanted to do since i was 11 !

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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Another Brick Wall



SO after no return call for 2 weeks I call my docs office after getting the biopsy results in the mail that say " biopsy results are clear " follow up in 10 YEARS ! are you EFFING Kidding me !!! No " if your having problems come back " NOTHING ! I called the nurse answered and I RIPPED HER A NEW ONE ! I told her " REALLY... You send someone a result that says Come back in 10 YEARS " with nothing else , no please follow up , are you still in pain NOTHING ! She told me " WELL , if i were you i would do a follow up visit if im still in pain " I told her " IM NOT U I EXPECTED A LITTLE GUIDANCE FROM MY DOCTOR , Tell him TO CALL ME BY TODAY OR I WONT COME BACK , i spent $1400 out of pocket for NOTHING "
I am trying to figure out now what to do , here is my thought process at this point:

A. Go back to this doc .After explaining what a shithead i think he is to him
B. Go back to the primary care doc that sent me to him ( at the clinic i liked her well enough )
C. Find another GI doc
D. Go ba...ck to the rhemtologist I saw originally that got all this rolling ?
E. Wait until the new year when we hopefully get insurance ?
I Have no idea what to do ? either way I feel like im starting over and back to square one !

So as I type this the GI doc's office calls me back and says she's called the doc and asked him to call me so maybe we can avoid a office visit ( not gonna happen ) but I WILL let him know that I do not appreciate being left out on the wind like this w/ no direction or guidance as to what to do .

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Pullilng my hair out !


Well for the past few months I have not felt well.
Funny thing I had my lap band surgery 4 yrs ago to have a better quality of life.
I had it when I did so I would NOT have a stroke, have high BP , have this or that, I did it when I did before I had any serious health issues. Now , I almost feel worse than I did before my surgery . I will say this, I am thankful I am NOT 250 pounds dealing with what I am dealing with now .


You might remember the issues w/ my feet and all that. Well my husband finally told me to go see a GI doc and figure out what was going on , to get an official diagnoses so i could go from there. I knew he would want to do a colonoscopy and I knew we did not have the money for it since we still do not have insurance. I went to the doc he told me it does look like I could have crohns disease ( which I suspected and the other doc did as well ) and he wanted to do the colonoscopy . Well its $1200 ! My husband told me to just do it. So , I had that done last Friday . Well guess what ? It showed NOTHING ! I had one polyp removed and that was it , no active Crohns. A friend who has Crohns said that just means its not in my colon .
But I am back to square one ! It means more tests more doctors that I dont have the money for .
When I have my flare ups I am in bed for days sometimes a week on end, the fatigue is indescribable and it takes me weeks to recover. I cant eat much and its just exhausting , and it happens over and over again ! So I guess after the pathology result come back I'll go back to the GI and see what he says from there !