Melissa D.
Pre-Op Hell
Aug 01, 2009
Well hello everyone...I'm going to try this again I typed up a note a few days again filling in EVERYTHING that had been going on and it was pretty long ,then I lost connection and it was all erased!!! and I had been typing like 45 minute( I type with one finger).So anyway I drove up to Indianapolis(2 hours) on the 23rd of July to get my history and physical that I need before surgery. Well Fran from Dr.Huse's office called a day or two before and told me I needed to be at the hospital at 6:30 am to register and have some tests done. So I had to leave home by 4:15 am !!!!!
My friend Bonnie was driving up with me and I felt so bad for her and guilty cause she's a night owl not a morning person.well I had like 6 vials of blood taken,chest xray ray,urine test, pulmanary function test,gallbladder ultra sound and a upper GI which I thought would kill me!!!! after drinking that nasty chalk smoothy you have to roll a round to coat ur stomach and mine wouldnt move right or something probably because of that hiatal hernia we found out I had when I did that endoscopy for the other surgeon in December I started feeling REALLY sick and dizzy but I managed to hold it together but as soon as she said they we're going to check the films I had to bolt to the bathroom and well you know what happened next
Then she tells me if the pictures arent clear we will have to redo them....So I would have to drink another glass of the crap since I just lost it all in the toilet.I seriously considered " Do I really want to go through this again?" & "should I just say piss on it" luckely my logic kicked in and said "Hell ya I'll do it again" my Lord it been 15 months, I've just jumped through hoops and stood on my head to have this done, I guess it was just because I felt soooo sick and dizzy then burning up hot, my friend told my she had pretty much the same reaction and they told her she was allergic to the contrast they had her drink, so maybe I'm allergic ? that is the first time I've had a UGI done and drank that stuff. well after all morning of testing @ the hospital, I had to go to Dr Paige Huls office for my history and physical but my appointment wasn't until 1:30 pm so I had 3 hours to blow while feeling like I wanted to just curl up into a ball and sleep or die( forgot to mention people were over at the house the night before and it was after 1 am before I could get them to leave, even though I said more than once that I had to be up by 3 am to go to Indy.) we went ahead and went to Dr Huls office and she agreed to see me early so she saw me at 11:45 and I really liked her she was really nice and a "open" person if ya know what I mean you can talk to her and not be intimadated. If I lived in Indy I would absolutely have her as my primary care doctor in a second..anyway my next and last appointment is the nutrition class on Aug 11 then *~SURGERY~* on Aug. 14th!!! yeah Ive started the count down 15 DATES UNTIL SURGERY!!!!!!!!!!
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About Me
Jeffersonville, IN
Location
30.0
BMI
Surgery
08/14/2009
Surgery Date
Sep 21, 2008
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