Tuesday, this will be short and sweet. Tuesday I met with the EP doctor after my EKG. He was on time, really nice but has weird teeth. I'm not judging him.
We sat and talked about my cardiac history, which as you know is quite extensive. He asked my about my current issues with my heart beating fast and then dropping low. Solo doe low... ha ha, that's a great song. Anyways, after lots of questions and me explaining my symptoms he lays it out on the line for me. It's either a medicine that's not FDA approved in the USA OR a pacemaker and cardiac ablation. I think when I heard that word my stomach just dropped to my butt. Ablation? No. Could this really be happening? No. I've had 5 cardiac ablations with only the final one doing any good and even then we have had issues resulting from it. No, not another ablation. I just sort of stared at him when he said that and was left speechless. He looked at me and smiled and told me they he wanted to do some more tests and that we would talk about it at my follow up appointment after all of these tests. I took a big deep breath and told myself I couldn't handle this and walked down stairs. I went outside to FaceTime my mom. Needless to say, I think it hit us all hard and definitely want to avoid that at all costs. Go Big Red.
IMPORTANT**
I want you to note that at this appointment I had my loop recorder (an internal cardiac monitor) interrogated today (this is important information that plays a roll in Fridays drama.) If you don't know that means, it means that I had my internal cardiac monitor read and downloaded onto a computer so they could read and see my heart activity. For more questions if you're that curious- call/text me.
So from that appointment I took the shuttle over to the other campus and went to have some labs drawn and then met with the Endocrinologist. I made my way up to the 3rd floor. I check in on the left and waited on the left as well. Shortly thereafter I was taken back to the exam room. Dr. A was a big unpredictable at first. He came in not knowing a thing about me, spend about 10 minutes reading my H and P then reading and wanting to hash it out. He laid it all out on the line. We were to talk about the following, my periods or lack there of, my weight, sex, and sweating. So one by one we knocked them down. He explained that from my blood tests I have what's called PCOS, Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome-google it if you want more information. As we moved on to talk about my weight he mentioned something about Cushing's Syndrome. He explained that often times PCOS can mimic the same symptoms and that he was going to have me take this medicine at 10pm SHARP and have a lab draw at 8am (note:that was going to be done from Thursday night and Friday morning). So now after that he's ordered this test and a 24 hour urine. The only thing left to talk about was sex. The first things out of his mouth is, "how's your sex drive?" I'm sure this brown girl turned bright red, but let's be real, not something I talk about everyday with the doctor or anyone for that matter. At this point I'm going to end that doctors appointment visit. If you are so inclined as to know how that ended it's quite humorous.
About 4 hours later I spiked a fever was on my puking spree again, called the doctor and Arizona momma and I were on our way back to the ER.
This time our experience was much better. 2 times a charm this time for an IV, however someone wasn't thinking and sent lab in after to stab me again. I got some fluids kept puking got some medicine and was sent home. What a waste of time. The ER doctor told me that for my upcoming appointments on Wednesday I should just cancel the Rheumatoid appointment and reschedule when I was feelings better and to keep my urologic test. Boy oh boy.
We got home about 8. Az momma and I discussed tomorrow plans and off to bed I went. She was going to call the doctors for me in the morning explain that I have a fever and am sickly and ask them what to do.
Off to bed I went. Man I didn't like this day.
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