How are you feeling sumi?

I think the alternate title of this site should be Vents R Us. We're very ventilated.

sumi, I hope the scope proves to be an effective diagnostic.

Sean, hit me up on email if that would help.

Smoked too many cigarettes yesterday, gave myself a headache and the gift of being awake now. Yes, I need to quit.

I'm minorly annoyed at StW right now. I know it's hard for him to make advance plans, but I already made plans for tomorrow morning and I'm not changing them for him. But then when I ask him what's he's up to for the rest of the day, I get no response. Whatevs.

eta I can't rule out him falling asleep between sending his text and receiving mine.

eta also turns out it might be a low blood sugar headache? Have applied trail mix and am waiting to see what happens.

Insent to your profile addy, smonster.

I'm feeling pretty well consideri g. It turns out I didn't drink enough if th e bowel cleansing stuff so they gave me an enema& that didn't do the trick so I'm getti g another at 7.

I did sleep some. Still hooked up to blood & fluids & this bood pressure machine. All the bits of tape and other plasticy stuff is irritating my skin. Joy. Scopes in about two hours.

All good thoughts your way, sumi,

Thanks for checking in sumi. Good thoughts sent your way.

Thank you.

My primary care physician dropped by. He us a good one. When they did labs on me yesterday at the hospital he read them (they have the results electronically) and saw that my blood count had dropped from 10 point something Friday morning to 8 point something in the afternoon. He made sure I got transfused.

He also dropped by to let me know about the spot the ct scan showed on my kidney and to say that we're goning to mri it. The surgeon had actually mentioned that. Also , I have acust on one of my ovaries that they will ultrasound.

{{{sumi}}} So much ~ma headed your way. It sounds like your doctor and the surgeon are on top of things.

Sean, my e-mail is always available for venting as well.

RAGE. My dad called to tell me that the hospital wants to "figure out" why he's having chest pains...but not until Monday, since doctoring is apparently like banking and is only a M-F, 9-5 thing. So they're keeping him all weekend, even though they WON'T DO ANYTHING to find out what's going on.

I told him, gee, if they really think your heart needs checked out, wouldn't they do it right away? But if it can wait for 2 days, then it's probably not that critical, and you can go home and come back Monday.

Seriously. He's going to just sit in a hospital bed for 2 whole days waiting for a doctor to show up and check it out. This is insane. It's his HEART. It's either important enough to check out now, or it's not important.

I am so full of rage right now it's not even funny. I mean REALLY. I got off the phone with Dad (who is pissing me off with his complacency ABOUT HIS HEART ["They say I have to wait, so I guess I'll wait." "Dad, you have a say in this! You aren't a prisoner there!" "Well, they say I have to wait until Monday."]) and just screamed at the walls for about 30 seconds. Screamed. RAAAAAAAAAGE.