Just me and the cat
Aug. 31st, 2004 05:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dr_trannySo I'm home alone tonight...or is it this morning? Anyway, I don't remember if I've posted about it or not, and right now I'm too tired to go searching through my past entries to find out, but Mary's been having some pretty serious abdominal pain over the last month. To go along with it she also has nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and hot flashes. We've been to the ER several times, including one 15 hour marathon visit, and they still don't have a clue. She's had 2 CT scans of her abdomen, 2 pelvic ultrasounds, at least a half dozen pelvic exams (just imagine the amount of KY involved!), assloads of blood drawn, and enough whiz quizzes to clog a toilet. All they can tell is that her white blood cell count is high, and she appears to have what they're calling hemmorhagic cysts on her ovaries.
Unfortunately none of this explains the "rebound pain" she's having. (i.e. it hurts when you press in on her belly, but it hurts more when you let go) After our last visit to the ER on Friday, when we got some asshole doctor whose primary concern wasn't her pain but her nausea (he gave her some pills and sent her home), I told her just to call her doctor on Monday and see what she had to say. Apparently she called about 8 in the morning, and went in to see her not long after. Mind you, this part of the story I got in a dead sleep. Anyway, she had more blood drawn (her white cell count is still waaaaay up) and did another UA. I guess her doctor was concerned enough to send her up to the VA in Seattle, where they have a much better equipped facility.
So, I get this call at 2:30 from Mary. She's in Seattle at the VA, they've just drawn 45 cc's of blood (YIKES!), and are spinning it to separate the white cells from the red cells. I guess the plan was to inject the white cells, some dye, and saline back into her, wait till the morning, and give her some sort of scan to see where the white cells congregate to see where they need to focus their attention. So she's staying at her mom's tonight (last night?), and will be going back to the VA around 9 to get scanned and see what they find out.
Needless to say, I'm not too thrilled that I'm here and she's there and I have no clue what's going on. But she's supposed to come home tomorrow, so we'll see. If they decide to keep her for any reason though, you better believe I'll be in Seattle so fast even the State Patrol won't be able to keep up.
More later when I know something.
Unfortunately none of this explains the "rebound pain" she's having. (i.e. it hurts when you press in on her belly, but it hurts more when you let go) After our last visit to the ER on Friday, when we got some asshole doctor whose primary concern wasn't her pain but her nausea (he gave her some pills and sent her home), I told her just to call her doctor on Monday and see what she had to say. Apparently she called about 8 in the morning, and went in to see her not long after. Mind you, this part of the story I got in a dead sleep. Anyway, she had more blood drawn (her white cell count is still waaaaay up) and did another UA. I guess her doctor was concerned enough to send her up to the VA in Seattle, where they have a much better equipped facility.
So, I get this call at 2:30 from Mary. She's in Seattle at the VA, they've just drawn 45 cc's of blood (YIKES!), and are spinning it to separate the white cells from the red cells. I guess the plan was to inject the white cells, some dye, and saline back into her, wait till the morning, and give her some sort of scan to see where the white cells congregate to see where they need to focus their attention. So she's staying at her mom's tonight (last night?), and will be going back to the VA around 9 to get scanned and see what they find out.
Needless to say, I'm not too thrilled that I'm here and she's there and I have no clue what's going on. But she's supposed to come home tomorrow, so we'll see. If they decide to keep her for any reason though, you better believe I'll be in Seattle so fast even the State Patrol won't be able to keep up.
More later when I know something.
