Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Chapter 11



Good Morning !!!

Goodness, is it just me or has this summer just flown by?  I just noticed that this is the last of July!  

The medical madness has started again.  I have a new G.I. doctor here in Springfield, and it is exhausting trying to get this new (to me) doctor trained.  I go to St. Louis every 6 months, and the docs there want a MRI and sometimes an ultrasound.  It is so much easier on me and my poor sister, who drives me there and back, to have those tests  done here and take  the radiologist’s reading and the actual films on a disk  to my liver specialist.  If, for some reason, I can’t get them done here, I would need to get to St. Louis at around 6 a.m. to have the tests done there, which would mean having to leave here around 2 a.m. to get there on time.  That is just too early for any of us to be in a good mood.   I had the ultrasound last Friday, and I am scheduled to have the MRI tomorrow morning.  

Yes, I have a new doctor.  My old doctor packed everything up and moved back to Columbia, MO.  Just when I got him trained right!  Tee hee.  I met him once, just minutes before he did an upper GI on me.  Several days later, I called and talked with his nurse about scheduling the ultrasound and MRI.  She kindly pointed out that my new doctor does things a little different.  It took over a week before he finally ordered the tests.  Guess I’ll have to really start his training in November, with my first appointment with him.   

After yesterday’s ultrasound, Mama and I went shopping.  We went to some stores I hadn’t been to in years.  We bought a few things, and we had to go to Golden Corral.  We have all our dinners out there.   That’s the only place to eat according to mom.  Once in a while, she’ll eat at an Asian buffet, but that’s rare.  Birthdays, good news, bad news, if there’s an occasion, that’s where you’ll find us.  With my body retaining fluid it makes it awful to try to walk the length of the food bar without problems.   I just don’t seem to be able to get through to her how so very hard this is on me.   

I rarely say no to her demands.  She was born during the Great Depression, and has worked so very hard all her life.  So, I figure that if she has the money and wants something, she should get it.   Although, I do argue with her if she wants to buy anything that will need any “fixin.”  If it’s a garment that needs hemming up, for example, my talented sister will take it home with good intentions, but then it disappears and we never see it again.  Come to think of it, that is actually a GOOD thing!  Her favorite is to buy, buy, buy.  If one is good, 10 are better.  Gotta love her!!!  Guess I’d better  get back in my chair.

Have a great weekend!

CYA,
Arlynda

8 comments:

  1. Summer has flown by far too fast. I find doctors to be quite annoying in most cases. I've been procrastinating making an appointment because whenever I go I leave feeling like it was a big huge waste of my time

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, Ann! Yeah, the joke may be on me because I still want to believe that they are actually trying to help.

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  2. Hope your new Doctor will be able to help. It's difficult when they ones you need are so far from where you live. Before we know Summer will be over.

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, Angel Abbygrace! To be perfectly honest about it, I sometimes hope for my life in this world to be over much sooner than later, but I know that our Heavenly Father will not make me stay any longer than He wants me to.

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  3. If she is good at buying things I will send an order for free stuff........

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, Adullamite! Sorry, she never departs with what she has bought--regardless of whether she actually wants it or not after she gets it home.

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  4. Winter is flying by all to fast down this way...too soon summer will be upon us.

    I think we should be allowed our pleasures as we grow older...so you're mother is enjoying hers. :)

    Long exhausting days for you when having to visit your doctor out of town..so much better when close to home.

    It's a shame you can't have someone plate up for you at the Golden Corral...under your instructions. Perhaps if you get your Mom to do it...she will hear your pleas from then on! ;)

    Take care.

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, Lee! There was actually a very nice lady the other day, who saw how much trouble I was having and got up from her own meal to help me get my plate back to our table. I wholeheartedly agree with you about my mother being allowed to enjoy her little pleasures, but when it is long past the point of being able to easily move about the house, more "stuff" makes it even harder.

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