PLennon
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Jul 16, 2009
It's been quite a while since my last blog entry. When I last wrote, I said that I had an appointment with my primary physician on June 19th. I was planning to tell him that I was going forward with surgery and wanted to start my 6 month, doctor supervised diet. He said that was great that I was considering surgery. He thought in my case, that's the best way to go. What I didn't expect was for him to say NO when I told him about the 6 month diet! What do you mean, "NO"?! I've never had a doctor in my life that didn't put me on some sort of diet. He said that he doesn't have a weight-loss program, is not a nutritionist and refused to supervise any programs. He told me to go to Weight Watchers or Jenny Craig!!!!!!!!! I was floored...not to mention devastaed. I had waited all this time for him to turn me down?! I knew damn well that Weight Watchers doesn't have a physician on staff and was fairly certain it was the same with Jenny Craig. When I got home, I called Medicare to see if they would accept either of those programs. They practically laughed at me! Of course they don't. So, I decided to call Amanda, the insurance specialst for Dr. Kim to see if she had any suggestions. She gave me the name of a doctor in Oviedo that a lot of Dr. Kim's patients have used. She asked if I was diabetic and I said yes, so she also gave me the name of an endocrinologist that some of Dr. Kim's patients have used, who happened to work out of the same location as Dr. Kim (Celebration Health Hospital). I called the first doctor who couldn't take me until late July. I went ahead and made the appointment, but then I decided to call Dr. Tanton's office. He's the endocrinologist. I found out that he could see me on July 1st! I made that appointment and cancelled the one I had made with the other doctor. As luck would have it, Dr. Tanton has pre-contracted rates with Medicare which are dirt cheap! Bonus!So, on July 1, I went to my appointment with Dr. Tanton. He was a lovely man. He told me to do some research on a diet called "Volumetrics". He also sent me for some lab work to rule out Chrone's Disease. Well, I got the Volumetrics book and I've never been so confused in my life. One of the problems I've had with any diet is that I don't know how to cook. At all. I can boil water and use a microwave or a Foreman grill. That's about it. Before you shake your head and say "just learn how", let me tell you that I have tried so many times in my life and have never been able to pull it off. I've literally, and this is no exaggeration, burned down two kitchens! It's true. I'm not proud of it, but it's true. I have a form of dyslexia called dyscalculia. It causes me to see numbers and symbols wrong sometimes. I can think I'm setting a timer for 15 minutes and set it for 45 instead. It's weird. It's the same reason I can't read music. Anyway, every person so far that has tried to teach me to cook has given up. So, most of the time, I eat out or do frozen dinners I can microwave or eat things like sandwiches or anything else that doesn't require cooking. There are maybe 2 recipe's in this book that don't require cooking. And not even basic cooking, but REAL cooking. Plus, most of the food it's telling me is fine to eat are NOT fine if you're diabetic! What I'm going to have to do is wait until my next appointment with Dr. Tanton and talk to him about it. Maybe he can come up with a solution. I hope so because I do want to do the best I can, and right now, I'm failing miserably. My eating is way out of control, and I can't seem to stop it.
Besides that, the newest drama in my life is my hand. I developed a bad case of DeQuervain's Tendonitis in my right wrist. It hurts like hell! I went to an orthopaedic doctor for it in May and he gave me a shot of cortisone (bloody hell that hurts!!). He said the pain would never come back. He lied. It came back with a vengeance!! I went to see him again a few days ago. He said that because I'm diabetic, the cortisone injections will only last a short while. If I wasn't diabetic, one shot would take care of it for life. He said I had to have surgery. Joy. He also said that after the surgery, I wouldn't be able to play for 3-4 weeks afterward! We've got a gig scheduled already for August 9, so I have to be able to play for that. I also have to have an EKG and other tests done prior to make sure I can even have surgery. In the meantime, I just have to live with the pain. I've already got so much pain between the back pain and the fibro. I don't need more. This is getting ridiculous!! The co-pays are going to cost me a small fortune that I just don't have. I'm so depressed right now. I despise my body and everything that is happening to me because of it. I feel like I have no control over anything, like I'm just losing touch with the world. It's scary...
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Orlando, FL
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25.3
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Surgery
01/19/2010
Surgery Date
May 27, 2009
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