Well, after a fairly sleepless night (aided by a 10 month old and 3 year old,) it appears my hospital visit has been delayed for the testing. There were no openings to get me in for the test(s) today that need to be run. So now I'll be juggling my first day back to work with potentially a several hour visit back to the hospital tomorrow.
Well, all in God's time. Tomorrow will be another day and I'll deal with it when it comes.
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
A little bit nervous (maybe a lot)
Ok, so, maybe a lot nervous. I'm probably scared a little too. I actually wonder if I'll be able to sleep tonight. I'm still having more pain than the doctor or myself thought I would still at this point. I'm also scheduled to go back to work on Thursday. I probably should have called the doctor Friday or even Monday, but I didn't. I was just hoping that it would stop hurting.
The thing is, even short drives in the car, say to get Taco Bell or somewhere just a couple miles away hurts. I even had my wife drive me to Microcenter (another place that's cool to shop, because their sales people really work with you to meet your computer needs, whether you're a first time builder, buying a complete system or just picking up an odd part) in the car the other day, instead of going by myself, because just a short drive hurts so badly.
Sitting at my desk for long periods of time hurts. I feel like an Advil junkie. I practically take it right now for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I'm still not getting restful sleep because pain wakes me up throughout the night and every morning. Even with taking a pain pill at night before bedtime, I have to push myself to exhaustion to get to sleep at night to get past the ache.
So, ironically enough, that's not what has me bothered. I was writing all of that off to the side affects/after affects of the surgery. Just thinking if I grit my teeth it'll go away, get better like it's supposed too, so on and so forth.
Well, after the side affects of the surgery, like the secondary infection at the belly button incision and such are all gone, now I got a call from our family doctor's office today. As part of standard procedure, they received a copy of my CT scans. As Dr Craig was reviewing them, he noticed that I have an enlarged spleen. His office wanted me to get in right away, or notify the other doctor from Crittenton so someone could take a look at it.
After a number of phone calls and phone conversations, it appears I will now be spending most of my last day off of work at the hospital. Re-running a gamut of tests that I had before my surgery. The potential side affects of it being my spleen are definitely scary to me. It can mean the rest of my life on antibiotics. The part that's scarier still is what could be causing it.
Dr Audet, from Crittenton hospital, is saying that it doesn't have to be the spleen causing the pain. So that's what I'm holding on to. I'm praying it's just some fluid buildup or drainage. Or maybe an extra tube that was coming from the liver that might still need to be sealed up. I really appreciate the doctor's over there at Crittenton, they have excellent bedside manner and really work to make you feel at ease while trying to figure out why your body is misbehaving.
Anywho, it's not good to borrow trouble and I don't want to until we find out what's really going on. So, I'm trying to distract my mind from it with some light exercise, reading, blogging, setting my son up on the Lord of the Rings Online beta (comes free in this month's issue of PC Gamer Magazine.) And trying to get my mind to settle down enough to get some sleep. (I also like Games for Windows magazine, it's my monthly "have to have" so I subscribe to it via Zinio.)
I'll probably try to drink a hot cup of Peppermint herb tea with a little honey to get myself to relax. That and a good movie will hopefully do it.
Anywho, I thank God for my health. I've actually been fairly healthy most of my life and hope that others are too. I know that nothing I've gone through even compares to some of what I've seen my sister and her husband go through in their battle against him having cancer.
Well, pray for me, that all of this is unfounded worry and we find that it's just a hiccup to get fixed. If not, we'll deal with that too, when it comes.
The thing is, even short drives in the car, say to get Taco Bell or somewhere just a couple miles away hurts. I even had my wife drive me to Microcenter (another place that's cool to shop, because their sales people really work with you to meet your computer needs, whether you're a first time builder, buying a complete system or just picking up an odd part) in the car the other day, instead of going by myself, because just a short drive hurts so badly.
Sitting at my desk for long periods of time hurts. I feel like an Advil junkie. I practically take it right now for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I'm still not getting restful sleep because pain wakes me up throughout the night and every morning. Even with taking a pain pill at night before bedtime, I have to push myself to exhaustion to get to sleep at night to get past the ache.
So, ironically enough, that's not what has me bothered. I was writing all of that off to the side affects/after affects of the surgery. Just thinking if I grit my teeth it'll go away, get better like it's supposed too, so on and so forth.
Well, after the side affects of the surgery, like the secondary infection at the belly button incision and such are all gone, now I got a call from our family doctor's office today. As part of standard procedure, they received a copy of my CT scans. As Dr Craig was reviewing them, he noticed that I have an enlarged spleen. His office wanted me to get in right away, or notify the other doctor from Crittenton so someone could take a look at it.
After a number of phone calls and phone conversations, it appears I will now be spending most of my last day off of work at the hospital. Re-running a gamut of tests that I had before my surgery. The potential side affects of it being my spleen are definitely scary to me. It can mean the rest of my life on antibiotics. The part that's scarier still is what could be causing it.
Dr Audet, from Crittenton hospital, is saying that it doesn't have to be the spleen causing the pain. So that's what I'm holding on to. I'm praying it's just some fluid buildup or drainage. Or maybe an extra tube that was coming from the liver that might still need to be sealed up. I really appreciate the doctor's over there at Crittenton, they have excellent bedside manner and really work to make you feel at ease while trying to figure out why your body is misbehaving.
Anywho, it's not good to borrow trouble and I don't want to until we find out what's really going on. So, I'm trying to distract my mind from it with some light exercise, reading, blogging, setting my son up on the Lord of the Rings Online beta (comes free in this month's issue of PC Gamer Magazine.) And trying to get my mind to settle down enough to get some sleep. (I also like Games for Windows magazine, it's my monthly "have to have" so I subscribe to it via Zinio.)
I'll probably try to drink a hot cup of Peppermint herb tea with a little honey to get myself to relax. That and a good movie will hopefully do it.
Anywho, I thank God for my health. I've actually been fairly healthy most of my life and hope that others are too. I know that nothing I've gone through even compares to some of what I've seen my sister and her husband go through in their battle against him having cancer.
Well, pray for me, that all of this is unfounded worry and we find that it's just a hiccup to get fixed. If not, we'll deal with that too, when it comes.
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