A Million and One Things...

Jul 07, 2011

Oh. My. Gosh!!!! I have had a crazy two days! Yesterday I had an appt with the PA at my surgeon's office, a two hr appoinment with the RD, lab work, an EKG, a chest xray, and a gallbladder sonogram. Today I met with my surgeon for my pre-op visit (where he goes over all of the possible complication, blah), I got my post-op prescriptions (inluding 6 months of actigall, six months of prevacid, and 20 days of lovenox injections) and I made my 1st post-op appointment. Tomorrow afternoon I have my pre-op physical with my PCP and in the morning, the dreaded upper gi endoscopy.

WHEW!!! Just looking at that makes me tired. The only questionable thing was that my bloodwork indicated the prescence of H. pylori antibodies. My surgeon told me that means I have H.pylori and I have to take a Prev-Pac for two weeks after my surgery. However, I have since learned that a positive blood test only indicates that you have had H.pylori (which is very common) at some point, not that you have an active infection. I guess they will biopsy my stomach lining tomorrow during the endoscopy to test for sure. Either way, I am glad that it won't prevent my surgery from happening on Tuesday and that it will be getting treated after surgery.

I can't believe my surgery is only a few days away. My surgeon's office and the hospital have been really awesome about working with my schedule to get things done.=)

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