That's totally rageworthy, Tep. Seriously, they have not one single *someone* on call who can at least run a diagnostic test over the weekend? Keeping him in a bed over the weekend in order to do absolutely nothing just sounds like nine kinds of crazy.

And sumi, I'm glad you're checking in with us. All kinds of testing, diagnosis and treatment~ma to you, as well as some gorgeous equinity.

so this sounds like after you leave you might need some meds in the short term and a change of diet long term?

I'm glad the tests went "well" - as well as to be expected given your symptoms.

when might you be able to leave?

(btw, I cannot believe you are coherent, posting on the forum after all of your tests). I think I'd be posting accidentally in sanskrit.

Keeping him in a bed over the weekend in order to do absolutely nothing just sounds like nine kinds of crazy.

it's our healthcare system in a nutshell isn't it?

Wow, sumi, I hope that is something that medication can clear up for you.

Oh, sumi! That's no fun. But it's better to be able to get a diagnosis than have some mysterious ailment. I'm glad they've been so thorough and responsive.

There will be meds.

I don't know why my head is so clear. I was so knocked out that I have no memory of the upper scope and I didn't wake up 'til the end of the colonoscopy. They even turned my bed around and it all happened in lost time for me. You'd think I would be more sleepy.

See, this is what I don't get. sumi has something (potentially life threatening) that needs to get checked, it gets checked, right now. Steph's dad needs something (potentially life threatening) checked, it can wait until Monday? All I can say is sumi has a much better health provider network than Steph's dad, that's for sure.

All I can say is sumi has a much better health provider network than Steph's dad, that's for sure.

I know! I want to send him up to sumi's hospital!

He totally should be at my hospital!

Everyone here has been just lovely.

I am still on clear liquids so my breakfast is hot tea , one sugar, red jello and a lemon fruit ice. Fruit ice is, essentially, Italin ice. - so I had to have one.

Better to be awake now than then, sumi! And I'm glad they're getting to the bottom of what's going on in there. Fingers crossed it's easily managed from here on out.

Tep, I would be furious, too, but it seems like that's the deal with hospital weekends anymore -- limited staff and a holding pattern. I've been through this with my mom and my MiL and my FiL. It's infuriating and absurd.