Wanted: One Nag
Okie…I feel like I’ve been through the ringer the last 36 hours, but I at least have a final-ish schedule for all of those tests and procedures that seemed jumbled up into one week or as my boss put it — “Looks like your taking a full sampling of all that [our hospital] has to offer…” (I’m going to be visiting all three of the big complexes.) 
Anyway, for those who are keeping track (and I hope someone is for me :P), the brain MRI is on Monday morning, the CT of the lung/chest is next Friday afternoon, and they have kindly scheduled the kidney biopsy/hospital stay for Oct 19th-20th so my mom can be here to spoil me and the grand-pets and she can still be home to celebrate my dad’s big 65th birthday next Tuesday.
Hopefully something will come out of this, even if it’s an elimination of possible diagnoses. I had a long session with my shrink last night and she reminded me that this is really about “data gathering”. It’s important to gather as much data about what’s going on in my malfunctioning body so we can determine what’s wrong and start either working on the cure or at least working on making life livable.
Really, I just want to get to the diagnosis part so I can get to a treatment part. If I just had a remote with a fast forward button for my life…
For someone who relies heavily on routines to cope with life, all of this erratic testing is stressing me out. :P It’s bad enough that people keep rearranging my weekly work meetings, but all of this sudden running over to the hospital for bloodwork and changes in my schedule due to doctors appointments are really throwing me off. Seriously, I need a personal assistant to keep track of everything. :P Writing everything down and keeping them in my Palm Pilot isn’t enough. I need a “Nag.”
Preferably one who vacuums and changes the litterbox.
Tags: wellness, kidney biopsy, CT Scan of the Lung w/ contrast, MRI of the brain, Nag, personal assistant, diagnosis
