Treadmill test and ECHO on Wednesday afternoon, Hematologist Wednesday morning. Woohoo!!
The cardiologist didn’t exactly yawn, but wasn’t overly concerned either. He told me he’d send Wednesday’s test results directly to my RE to avoid the lag time of sending it to my GP first, yadayada. I told him I hadn’t told my RE anything yet and he said kindly but directly, “Looks like you need to call them, huh?”. Which I did. Left my message and my nurse had called me back almost before I’d finished speaking. No kidding, it was that fast. So, they’ll be watching for my results. Oh, yes…..
And honestly one of the first questions the cardiologist had (after “how did you get here, again?”) was “who’s your hematologist?” So I’m feeling pretty good about that appointment. That should be interesting. But it shouldn’t hold anything up, as I’m already on the heparin shots anyway. That doc’s for post management. So I’m over halfway to being in the clear medically, I believe.
My clinic also called to holler about payment (the more concrete half of being cleared), and I finally got to yell back at them. Not really yell, but fuss. It’d been so long since I made my last payment for the first donor who fell through that they couldn’t find it on their books, they had to go digging for it. It was, after all, September of last year…. they found it, credited it, adjusted the amount they were yelling about to something substantially less, and I agreed to show up tomorrow (in between doctor’s appointments) and cough it up. Cue feeling of accomplishment…..
Thank you all for the well-wishes and support – it’s been rough. I can’t convey how much it means… 🙂
Stay tuned! More drama to come, I’m sure – this is me we’re talking about, after all!
06/24/2009 at 4:53 pm
Geez.. although this is not bad news. All bases covered, and sounds like this hopefully is the routine stuff that is necessary for your baseline history to be out there so you can be monitored on a go forward basis. I’m rooting for a very inconsequential ECHO and Hematology visit.
Time for margaritas yet, or almost? I’d be slugging one or two back at this point.
And what a lovely addition to the whole mix to have your clinic asshats calling you…
I’ll be awaiting the next step and hoping that it is NO DRAMA!!!!! Seriously, you can’t make this shit up…
06/24/2009 at 6:27 pm
Glad t hear things are moving along. Here’s hoping to continued no drama.
06/27/2009 at 1:22 am
ok, worried…please let us know what happened.