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redfirecrackerFor all that I'm trying so hard to think positive about my health, and to look on the bright side of things, the constant dull pain and enforced helplessness are really wearing on my nerves. I fell again on Monday and banged myself up pretty badly. I feel stupid and incompetent and generally rotten. Plus, you know . . . OW! My leg is bruised from just above the knee to midway up my thigh.
I saw my doctor yesterday; she's not happy about how slowly I'm progressing, so she sent me for another ultrasound to make sure that things are looking as well as can be expected. Frustratingly enough, the hospital hasn't yet released my medical records and test results from my stay -- despite the fact that I signed the release form THREE WEEKS AGO!! So, that means that the doctors can't compare today's ultrasound with the initial test. Which means that I'm still pretty much in limbo.
If that stupid blood clot isn't dissolving on its own, they're going to put me back into the hospital and probably stick me full of needles again.
I really, really, REALLY don't want to go back into the hospital.
The on-duty doc at the office assured me that they should be able to have more answers for me by tomorrow, late afternoon -- presumably after they have beaten West Jersey Hospital's Medical Records department into submission and gotten copies of my films. In the meantime, he told me that the Coumadin is certainly preventing the clot from worsening, even if it's not improving quickly enough.
Basically, all I can do is sit and wait to hear from my doctor's office.
I hate waiting.
Still, at least I'm not sitting around anymore, wringing my hands and saying, "I dunno," whenever anyone asks me a question.
My doc also started me on antidepressants. Anyone have any experience with Lexapro? I'm just wondering what other people have thought of it.
And because I'm writing this with one eye on the Smallville screen . . . ooh, pretty.
Later, gators.
I saw my doctor yesterday; she's not happy about how slowly I'm progressing, so she sent me for another ultrasound to make sure that things are looking as well as can be expected. Frustratingly enough, the hospital hasn't yet released my medical records and test results from my stay -- despite the fact that I signed the release form THREE WEEKS AGO!! So, that means that the doctors can't compare today's ultrasound with the initial test. Which means that I'm still pretty much in limbo.
If that stupid blood clot isn't dissolving on its own, they're going to put me back into the hospital and probably stick me full of needles again.
I really, really, REALLY don't want to go back into the hospital.
The on-duty doc at the office assured me that they should be able to have more answers for me by tomorrow, late afternoon -- presumably after they have beaten West Jersey Hospital's Medical Records department into submission and gotten copies of my films. In the meantime, he told me that the Coumadin is certainly preventing the clot from worsening, even if it's not improving quickly enough.
Basically, all I can do is sit and wait to hear from my doctor's office.
I hate waiting.
Still, at least I'm not sitting around anymore, wringing my hands and saying, "I dunno," whenever anyone asks me a question.
My doc also started me on antidepressants. Anyone have any experience with Lexapro? I'm just wondering what other people have thought of it.
And because I'm writing this with one eye on the Smallville screen . . . ooh, pretty.
Later, gators.
