Shake My Booties

The lovely MRI lady called me today, in class actually, during a presentation. I felt bad for interrupting the presentation, twice, to leave and take my call, but this was important. I have new MRI appointments, sooner than 6 months from now.

They had to split the appointments because together they would have taken an hour and the nice lady on the phone said there was no way I would be able to get an hour long appointment before April.

The first one, of my carotid arteries of my neck, is on Friday, March 12th at noon.

And the second one is Saturday, March 20th at 3. This one is kind of a bummer since my birthday is a day after but I can deal with that as long as it means that they are done and over with.

This has cheered me up immensely, I felt like crap before this and now I am content. So I’m off to finish watching the current presentation in my Living with the Undead course on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Yee-haw lol.

Later days!

So I got the call today about my MRI appointment, want to take a guess as to when it is?? I’ll give you a moment to think about it…

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Okay, I’ll tell you when the actual date is now. They have me scheduled for half a year from now on July 28th, 2010.

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Yes, you read that right, it’s for 6 months from now!!! WTF?!?!?! I am not lying when I say this pretty much ruined my day for me for a while. It sounds dramatic but it’s not. I thought I might get in sooner, but just like last time, it’s a 6 month wait. The only reason I got it done last time was because I had been admitted to the hospital.

SO. I have called the MRI booking office and left a message and am waiting for them to get back to me. I’m only here until April when school is done, and then I have no idea what’s going to be going on.

U.G.H.

Okay, so I’ve been a teensy bit cranky today. I have no idea why I’m emotionally unstable right now I just am folks. Don’t hate me for having a bad day.

I’m goig to go and snuggle under my zebra-print fleece blanket, feel fat and disgusting, and just sulk.

Yes, it’s been a bad day, haha.

Later days!

So instead of writing out the entire story again, I am going to post my response to my grandparents email about my doctors appointment yesterday. It’s just easier this way haha.

Hey guys,

Basically he told me everything I already knew from when I got released. He didn’t seem to want to hear about anything else I wanted to ask about. I’m still not allowed on any kind of birth control, I will be continuing to take an aspirin every day to ward off another stroke, and I am on the migraine preventative again since it has worked really well so far. I am seriously considering it could be Lupus, check more info here, even though the one major test they did came back negative. This test is called an ANA test where they check if I have any autoimmune diseases like Lupus, and with this test if you test positive you are MORE likely to have Lupus, if you tests negative you are more likely to NOT have Lupus, but you can still have the disease even with a negative result from the ANA test.

Ever since my friend Missy suggested this it has been high on my list of possibilities, especially since she has Lupus herself and keeps telling me that all of the symptoms I have she has, or had when she was first diagnosed. So I will be getting a referral to a rheumatologist from my regular doctor. A rheumatologist will be able to do other tests and confirm once and for all if I have this disease or not.

Other than that, the neurologist has ordered another MRI of my neck and shoulders just to make sure there is no blockage of the arteries since I am still having numbness and tingling on my right side, and also since occasionally my left hand goes numb as well. I don’t have those scheduled yet but am waiting for a call about them.

I think that is all that went down with that appointment yesterday. I will be seeing my regular doctor, Dr. Isaac, next Tuesday (Feb,2) to ask him about everything that is going on and to get a referral. I’m hoping that soon I will find out what exactly is wrong with me because I just want to be able to have some sort of control over this instead of just leaving it to run at it’s own pace.

So that’s basically all I can tell you right now since I don’t really have an new information. I will let you guys know what happens next Monday at that doctors appointment.

Later days!

Amy

So tomorrow is a semi-big day for me, I’m going to see my neurologist for the first time since the second stroke/episode. Which is nerve wracking for me because I am still having ongoing symptoms from the strokes so my only fear is that he may want to admit me again. And I know this is the hypochondriac in me, always thinking the possible worst of the situation, but I have a serious fear he might keep me again. And thinking about that just makes me more nervous about going in to see him, since I only have 11 weeks of classes and I need to go to every class, I can’t afford to take time off. I know it would be in my best interest and I would most likely do it but I am still not sure I am ready to go to this appointment haha.Although I do have a crapload of questions I need to ask him about . First and foremost on that list is getting a new prescription of my migraine preventatives since they seem to be doing their job properly, and also seeing if he is going to put me back on the blood thinners, which could be a problem. Not a physical or medical problem, but something that I will have to remember to inform doctors of when I go in and see them. Another big thing is to get a referral to a neurologist back home since when school is done that’s where I will be, and I would like to be able to do follow-ups close to home.

Also in a weird news note, the doctor who did my colonoscopy (for the life of me I can’t remember what kind of specialist he is) got his office to call me and I now have an appointment with him on March 4th, which is when I am on March break and back home. the secretary wouldn’t tell me what the appointment was for and I don’t remember him needing a follow-up so I will just have to go in and see what’s going on. There can’t be any test results since I got the last of them when I saw him last time just before school started. So who knows? It’s probably just a follow-up since I had been having problems after the procedure was done, which has since all cleared up.

Other than all of my medical trails, I have been doing pretty good. School is going great so far, I am not enjoying this Living with the Undead elective as much as I had hoped I would. I don’t like my teacher all that much and the class is rather dry and boring to me. Oh well, only five weeks left in her class, I mean it’s still 10 classes since I see her twice a week but still, I can grin and bear it haha.

I’m going to go and get to bed since my appointment is pretty early tomorrow morning which means I have to catch the bus early, so I will blog when I know more of what’s going on! Hopefully he will figure me out and get everything sorted out and completed.

Later days all!