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sereneYesterday, mostly for my benefit.
I was at work when I discovered the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
stonebender needed some help so that loracs could go see dbubley at the hospital (see below), so I had this brilliant flash of efficiency -- instead of taking the bus to the doctor, then going home and getting the car and heading to stonebender's, I'd stop home for the car first, because that would save me time. Hah! Took me 45 minutes to park. I was late for the appointment, and then got stuck in traffic. If I'd done the entire trip on the bus, I'd've been at stonebender's at least an hour sooner. *sigh*
Anyway, the doctor ended up being the one I'd wanted. He looked at my records and my vocal cords -- did you know they can stick a scope up your nose and down your throat to do that? Did you know it's very uncomfortable?
Well, everything looks good, and the doctor addressed all my questions, and was very earnest and helpful (and, of course, he's like fourteen years old). His name is Dr. Gurushanthaiah, but his staff calls him Dr. G., wonder why?
I'll be getting the surgery next month some time, and won't need to miss any significant amount of work. I'll probably not even have to spend the night in the hospital. Oh, and he says he'll try to clean up my scar and make it "prettier". What. EVer. :-)
He agreed with the endo -- if they take out the thyroid and a few lymph nodes, and there's no cancer at all, he doesn't see a need for the radioactive iodine, but if there's any cancer at all, he thinks I should do it. I'm fine with that.
dbubley has to have surgery to find out if she has renal cancer. Between that and everything else (even the DOG had to go to the doctor today), we're wondering when the twenty-seventh shoe will drop around here. When we're not crying, we're cracking up about it. (And while I was at stonebender's, at 1:30 in the morning, I got a text from someotherguy saying he was in the ER with sogwife for a probable UTI. I guess it's the kid's turn to get sick next. Hope she skips her turn.)
But I'm doing fine, maybe too fine (meaning maybe later I'll crash, but for now I feel genuinely fine), and I plan to spend some time today doing what I do when I'm stressed, which is cook for people. Missdbubley likes my cooking, so she's getting some real, non-hospital food this evening.
And then tomorrow, radio silence, as I pilesomeotherguy and some food in the car, and head off for wherever, just the two of us, no cellphones, no nothin'.
(Oh, and we'll be picking up at least one guinea pig today. Oy.)
I was at work when I discovered the
stonebender needed some help so that loracs could go see dbubley at the hospital (see below), so I had this brilliant flash of efficiency -- instead of taking the bus to the doctor, then going home and getting the car and heading to stonebender's, I'd stop home for the car first, because that would save me time. Hah! Took me 45 minutes to park. I was late for the appointment, and then got stuck in traffic. If I'd done the entire trip on the bus, I'd've been at stonebender's at least an hour sooner. *sigh*Anyway, the doctor ended up being the one I'd wanted. He looked at my records and my vocal cords -- did you know they can stick a scope up your nose and down your throat to do that? Did you know it's very uncomfortable?
Well, everything looks good, and the doctor addressed all my questions, and was very earnest and helpful (and, of course, he's like fourteen years old). His name is Dr. Gurushanthaiah, but his staff calls him Dr. G., wonder why?
I'll be getting the surgery next month some time, and won't need to miss any significant amount of work. I'll probably not even have to spend the night in the hospital. Oh, and he says he'll try to clean up my scar and make it "prettier". What. EVer. :-)
He agreed with the endo -- if they take out the thyroid and a few lymph nodes, and there's no cancer at all, he doesn't see a need for the radioactive iodine, but if there's any cancer at all, he thinks I should do it. I'm fine with that.
dbubley has to have surgery to find out if she has renal cancer. Between that and everything else (even the DOG had to go to the doctor today), we're wondering when the twenty-seventh shoe will drop around here. When we're not crying, we're cracking up about it. (And while I was at stonebender's, at 1:30 in the morning, I got a text from someotherguy saying he was in the ER with sogwife for a probable UTI. I guess it's the kid's turn to get sick next. Hope she skips her turn.)But I'm doing fine, maybe too fine (meaning maybe later I'll crash, but for now I feel genuinely fine), and I plan to spend some time today doing what I do when I'm stressed, which is cook for people. Miss
dbubley likes my cooking, so she's getting some real, non-hospital food this evening.And then tomorrow, radio silence, as I pile
someotherguy and some food in the car, and head off for wherever, just the two of us, no cellphones, no nothin'.(Oh, and we'll be picking up at least one guinea pig today. Oy.)
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Date: 2009-01-10 10:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-10 11:03 pm (UTC)Geez. Fuck cancer A LOT.
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Date: 2009-01-11 01:03 am (UTC)b) fuck cancer in the ear.
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Date: 2009-01-10 11:07 pm (UTC)You want soup? I can make soup. And cookies. And probably do other useful things, if I knew what they were. ::hugs::
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Date: 2009-01-10 11:25 pm (UTC)OK, my car is fixed, so I can be a lot more use to my friends. What can I do to be of service to everyone? My one concern is that I can't spend time in a house with a dog, but I can drive people around, visit people in hospitals, make mix CDs or food, or do other practical things. PLEASE let me know. You are such a wonderful person, and I'd like to be able to help out.
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Date: 2009-01-12 06:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-11 12:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-11 01:21 am (UTC)I am so sad about
I am familiar with the scope, though I only have had it up my nose and into my sinus cavities. Fun. I am however thrilled they have such a thing as it allowed the doctor to see things not visible on the CT scan (the scane didn't show anything awful in my sinuses--the scope showed otherwise).
I really, really hope you are all clear after your surgery.
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Date: 2009-01-11 01:27 am (UTC)fuck cancer with prettier scars. that'll show it!
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Date: 2009-01-11 01:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-11 01:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-11 02:30 am (UTC)holding a good thought for y'all, and wishing you all good health and happiness.
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Date: 2009-01-11 08:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-11 09:57 am (UTC)I wish that none of you did.
[healing thoughts]
[fuck cancer thoughts]
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Date: 2009-01-11 10:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-11 10:15 am (UTC)