Post by almostthere on Jan 22, 2017 10:49:23 GMT -8
So there has been an interruption in visitation to the forum for me... A lot of it had to do with work. Some of it had to do with prioritization. The initial interruption took me off forums for quite some time...
In short, because the whole story would probably be a novel, and no one cares that much, I had a sudden pain in the lower right quadrant of the abdomen. Which if you have any medical training you know that could mean so many things that could be bad, so you can understand why I was in the ER just half an hour after awakening to find myself in a kind of pain I'd never felt before....
It was supposed to be one thing after the other, they kept guessing kidney stone or cyst or appendix or or or -- And then a CT scan resulted in something else being discovered in a different body part. And then when I was finally released there were many follow up appointments. Being self employed and inundated with doctors lodging opinions and repeatedly running tests takes up a lot of brain activity - things like online conversations about tents sort of take the backseat.
So now, months later, the original thing (whatever it was, no idea to this day whether the pain was related to the lung issue) is long gone and not repeated itself, the lung consolidation is resolving on its own per the fourth CT (one more and I will take a spider in with me and become Spiderman!) and doctors are also now treating things I had been tolerating because it was minimally bothersome (eczema runs in the family, but wow, it's nice that it's going into remission, or resolving, or whatever) and business is booming (because, well, medical bills plus student loans make AT a busy girl).
But normalization is happening, so I'm back.
With a new perspective on how the medical industry has changed. Not for the better.
In short, because the whole story would probably be a novel, and no one cares that much, I had a sudden pain in the lower right quadrant of the abdomen. Which if you have any medical training you know that could mean so many things that could be bad, so you can understand why I was in the ER just half an hour after awakening to find myself in a kind of pain I'd never felt before....
It was supposed to be one thing after the other, they kept guessing kidney stone or cyst or appendix or or or -- And then a CT scan resulted in something else being discovered in a different body part. And then when I was finally released there were many follow up appointments. Being self employed and inundated with doctors lodging opinions and repeatedly running tests takes up a lot of brain activity - things like online conversations about tents sort of take the backseat.
So now, months later, the original thing (whatever it was, no idea to this day whether the pain was related to the lung issue) is long gone and not repeated itself, the lung consolidation is resolving on its own per the fourth CT (one more and I will take a spider in with me and become Spiderman!) and doctors are also now treating things I had been tolerating because it was minimally bothersome (eczema runs in the family, but wow, it's nice that it's going into remission, or resolving, or whatever) and business is booming (because, well, medical bills plus student loans make AT a busy girl).
But normalization is happening, so I'm back.
With a new perspective on how the medical industry has changed. Not for the better.
