More Tests...
Today started slower than I had hoped. Getting to bed at 11:30 didn't help any, but at least the konk on the noggin has faded, as far as I can tell. First thing, during my shower, my IV popped somehow, and I had to get a new one higher in my arm. Well, lower, I guess. On my wrist. More painful than the other, if I flex. :-(
At 8:30 I had a Brain/Pituitary MRI. It went pretty quickly, and my technician again said nothing. I've started getting antsy, wondering what/if they have seen gone wrong or right. The first time I was here, I chattered with everybody because it was an active study and they were curious. They usually would say something like "I shouldn't say anything, but..." and let me know it looked good. This time... nothing. I'm deliberately assuming this means they're just sticking to protocol and not sharing what they shouldn't, since it's the doctor's who are supposed to tell me ANYTHING, apparently. But... I almost wish they would. It makes me afraid there's something wrong, and they don't want to say anything about it, because my doctors will definitely be talking to me about it. :-(
"Paranoia, paranoia..." Grumph...
Then at 1:00 I had an echocardiogram. It went pretty quickly, too, but I could see the screen, and all I can say is, it's great to have a government budget, because the images were much cleaner, bigger and better defined than with my doctor at home. What the various images meant, I haven't the foggiest, because, again, the technician said nothing.
Last, I had an ultrasound of my thyroid, because, just before I left home, I was reading my paperwork from the last two visits, and realized that I had not followed up an a nodule on the thyroid that they had seen back then. I'd completely forgotten about it. So, I mentioned it to my fellow on Monday, and he said he could feel something small and "probably insignificant" on the right of my thyroid. Lying down, looking straight up, I couldn see something off to the left, I think, and then he had me turn my head away to see the right, so I don't know what he saw. Turning my head back to the right, so he could look at the left, I could see several little pips sliding in and out of view and he moved the emitter back and forth on my throat. When he was done, he told me to stay there while he talked to a doctor (not good!) and then came back to tel me I could go.
*sigh*
I've been informed that the few tests scheduled so far are "premilinary tests" and that if nothing shows up, they'll let me go shortly after my cardiac MRI tomorrow. It something does... well, they'll shedule some more scans, probably. But nobody is telling me anything for now except that my fellow will tell me eventually.
At 8:30 I had a Brain/Pituitary MRI. It went pretty quickly, and my technician again said nothing. I've started getting antsy, wondering what/if they have seen gone wrong or right. The first time I was here, I chattered with everybody because it was an active study and they were curious. They usually would say something like "I shouldn't say anything, but..." and let me know it looked good. This time... nothing. I'm deliberately assuming this means they're just sticking to protocol and not sharing what they shouldn't, since it's the doctor's who are supposed to tell me ANYTHING, apparently. But... I almost wish they would. It makes me afraid there's something wrong, and they don't want to say anything about it, because my doctors will definitely be talking to me about it. :-(
"Paranoia, paranoia..." Grumph...
Then at 1:00 I had an echocardiogram. It went pretty quickly, too, but I could see the screen, and all I can say is, it's great to have a government budget, because the images were much cleaner, bigger and better defined than with my doctor at home. What the various images meant, I haven't the foggiest, because, again, the technician said nothing.
Last, I had an ultrasound of my thyroid, because, just before I left home, I was reading my paperwork from the last two visits, and realized that I had not followed up an a nodule on the thyroid that they had seen back then. I'd completely forgotten about it. So, I mentioned it to my fellow on Monday, and he said he could feel something small and "probably insignificant" on the right of my thyroid. Lying down, looking straight up, I couldn see something off to the left, I think, and then he had me turn my head away to see the right, so I don't know what he saw. Turning my head back to the right, so he could look at the left, I could see several little pips sliding in and out of view and he moved the emitter back and forth on my throat. When he was done, he told me to stay there while he talked to a doctor (not good!) and then came back to tel me I could go.
*sigh*
I've been informed that the few tests scheduled so far are "premilinary tests" and that if nothing shows up, they'll let me go shortly after my cardiac MRI tomorrow. It something does... well, they'll shedule some more scans, probably. But nobody is telling me anything for now except that my fellow will tell me eventually.