On 15/09/2011 22:26, NightMist wrote:
...or do you just beat the doctor?
I don't know about you, but hearing a doctor say, "Oh my, you are in
trouble." while palpitating your abdomen, is definitely on my top 10 list
of things I do not want to hear.
I've heard 'H'm... I'm not happy with this, so I'm sending you for
further investigation. It's probably nothing to worry about, but we'd
better make sure' when I found the breast lump. It wasn't, but I had an
anxious Christmas! If my doc says that sort of thing, you sit up and
pay attention, because he's lovely really.
I walked in to the newly expanded clinic because menopause is kicking my
butt, DH is freaking out about it, and I have developed a hard swelling
where my internal girly parts are.
I walked out with three pages of lab orders, 4 procedure orders (two
ultrasounds, a mammogram and a chest x-ray), a follow-up visit in a week
(the labs and stuff have to be done before then), and being informed that
they are scheduling me an appointment at Roswell Park
(http://www.roswellpark.org/ No space aliens are involved) and will call
when they have it.
Apparently the hard swelling is a big old abdominal mass.
Well, good that they are investigation.
The appointment at Roswell is not anything to get up about. It is just
that they tried to make me an appointment with every gynecologist in
three counties but nobody would touch me. Either because there were
insurance conflicts, or because they would not take a brand new patient
that has an abdominal mass. So they said the heck with it, and are
sending me straight to the big guns.
Here it can be a bit of a postcode lottery where they send you, but when
they thought the breast lump might be serious, the doc said that
wherever was best would be where he'd send me, even as far as Birmingham!
In all likelihood it is either another ovarian cyst run amok because of
the hormonal changes, or possibly the small fibroids they found last time
I had such a cyst that have gone gargantuan for the same reason.
Besides as I told DH to calm him, 80 percent of the time an oncologist is
the person you see who tells you that there is no big problem.
I found mine very reassuring and very kind.
Dang, I bet I have to buy new jewelry for my "lower" piercing. It is
really really hard to take a capture bead ring out of such a place
without wrecking the ring. *grump*
I only have ears pierced, and that was bad enough. Not doing anything else.
Good luck with it all: we will all be thinking of you.
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