Category: The Doctor’s Office
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Coming Down the Pipeline
Just sharing a brief update… or let’s hope it’s brief, because otherwise y’all might just get a wee bit bored, or a lot bored. *sigh* In the saga that is the medical establishment, my doctor has been unable to procure a PET scan approval from my insurance company in order to begin pursuing why my…
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A Sort of Quietness
“I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been – if you’ve been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you – you will know that there comes in the end a sort…
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Long Story but It Ends Well
It has been weeks since I’ve written and weeks of waiting and waiting and waiting to determine just what exactly is going on with my thyroid. Since April, my cancer markers have been elevated, and I have ultrasounds that show possible evidence of cancer but with no growth. It could just be calcification from previous…
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Hurry Up… and Wait
This morning I saw an Ear, Nose and Throat specialist. After I thoroughly embarrassed myself and fell apart in his office, I cried pretty much for the rest of the day. Overwhelmed is an understatement. Confused. Fearful. Frustrated. These all come into play. Basically I learned that it takes new doctors a very, very long…
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Undone
On Thursday I wrote about where we are, about how I am doing okay even when I sit with the uncertainties of life. Honestly, the past few days have been the other side of being okay… what I wrote of how some days it seems the faith is sucked right out of me. And today,…
A Spring of Joy 