Archive for May 10th, 2006

10
May

I’ve rented my blog!!!

I am shocked that “Stumbling Through Life With Grace” accepted the offer to rent my blog, but I’m thrilled that she did.

If you can’t see where, click over to the left:
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In reading her blog, I found that we have several things in common including the need to vent and swear, ADD and a nice balance of sarcasm, bitterness and the ability to spin a good story. Or at least I think we have that in common. We’ll see if she agrees.

Do some back-reading on “Grace” and let me know what you think.

10
May

Curiouser still

This morning I called the imaging place in East Jesus and asked if I could get the ultrasound done somewhere closer or sooner or both.

It turns out that they had a place 6 miles from my office with not one but SEVEN open slots this morning. Needless to say, I took the right now appointment and had the ultrasound done.

The first thing that happened was a total stranger (that wasn’t bad looking) rubbed that ultrasound goo all over my groin and thighs.

Wait. Maybe she was the janitor. I didn’t ask to see ID. Either way, that part was very nice.

She did several scans from the tops of my femoral arteries all the way down to my ankles testing pulse, blood pressure, etc. as she went. The conclusion in picture form is:


She seemed pretty sure of what “the thing” wasn’t, but she also spent 30 minutes making that ‘I think someone farted’ face and not being able to tell what it was.

Anyway, my scans were sent STAT to the radiologist who should be reviewing them now and calling my doctor so we can figure out what to do next, and next could be anything as far as I’m concerned, as long as IT in no way affects me leaving for the beach next Saturday and staying the full ten days.

Of course, if I was told that driving long distances was bad and that my wife should handle that job, THAT would hardly suck at all.

I’ll keep you posted when I hear more.

Shalom everybody!!

10
May

curious: the update, such that it is

I’m sorry to have kept everyone waiting, but when I got home from the doctor and getting an unrelated prescription filled, I had only a little time to spend with the wife and girls, change clothes, have my afternoon constitutional, help my nephew put together one of those pocket racer doo-hickeys, then pick my other nephew up from football, then eat dinner, then get the elder nephew to help me get a couple hundred pounds of charcoal in the car and get 20 pounds of pulled pork vacuum sealed and frozen.

But when all that was done, the first thing I did was sit down here to update you, my readers.

Well, it’s official. I went to the doctor and after finding out that I weighed 204.5, my pulse rate was 65 and my blood pressure was 120 over 80, we discussed my issue and the doctor looked at my leg from several angles. He even touched it twice.

Gingerly.

Anyway, I told you I’d let you know by the face I made. Well, here’s the face:

Well, if blogger was fucking working worth one warm shit today, you’d see a picture of me making the indifferent face, because the doctor said it’s one of three things:

a tumor (extremely extremely unlikely)
a blood clot
a some kind of cyst (I think he said Baker cyst, but I could be hallucinating that).

All together now, people:

COME ON, BAKER’S CYST!!!

Anyway, to see what the deal is for sure, he scheduled me for an MRI and an ultrasound on Thursday at 1pm.

Upside? I can’t work out today or tomorrow and I’m supposed to “take it easy.”

Well, I don’t want to “take it easy” for two days without knowing, so I’m calling my cardiologist in the morning to see if he can rush me an ultrasound / MRI thingy right next door to his office.

So there you have it. I’m in full on wait and see mode. Wait and see with me…won’t you?




 

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