stories of a real life wonder woman

May have to say that again but for now that's all... Um first I guess I will say my appointments went well this week...the GI doctor I went to see talked  to us a little bit and seems to think that the mass thingy is going down...also he was proud of me that I took my gross stomach pictures to my appointment...he said those really are pictures that are worth a thousand words because write ups only tell you so much...he didn't seem to concerned but had me schedule a upper GI scope with ultra-sound and biopsy...which we had to reschedule...long story...the short of it was that someone canceled between the first time I talked to someone and the second time because then we got an appointment on Thursday...anywho Monday appointment with the GI went well then we went to the zoo again cause well I love the zoo and we got to spend a lot of time just chillin and watching the animals...ps I'm an animal whisperer...then we went and saw Dr. Sader and we joked around and stuff ...

But somewhere along the line I forgot it... Whelp as you all know if you read the post before this then you know that my appointments went well on Monday...and my perm cath spot look really great...it hurts a little still but mostly it feels fine and is healing great... My appointment on Wednesday was fine...I ate radio active scrambled egg even though I think eggs are gross...I made myself down them fast and try not to think about what I was doing because normally the taste of eggs makes me want to throw up...and even though they were radioactive they look normal and tasted normal...and sadly I didn't get any superpowers from it...which stinks...I had to eat the eggs so they could see how food was passing through my system...they had me eat the eggs and then took pictures with an x-ray type thing every 15 minutes for and hour...then I had an hour off and they took one more picture...they were looking forward they said was an "obstruction" meaning  the mass to see if ...

I am so an animal whisperer...but I'll get back to that... First thing of the day I went to Morton to get my perm cath out...I had the same doctor take my cath out that did my fistula gram...it didn't take like any time...we got there early so I got done early...what happened was I laid back in the chair and then after cleaning the area he numbed it up by injecting some stuff...and that hurt more than anything else...then after that he started to take it out...and there was a little part up under my skin that he had to cut that was around the tube...that was supposed to be there so don't worry...it didn't really hurt there was just a weird pulling feeling on it and around my neck...and then I saw what it looked like outside my body and it was longer than I thought it was...so that was a little weird...but then I got out at 11...I thought I would get out at 11:30 so that was nice to get out early... Then mom and I went and had some delish lunch at Quiznos...t...

I go in tomorrow and get it out...later in the afternoon I have an appointment with a surgeon in Peoria...the same one that did my fistula surgery...I see him tomorrow about the mass in my stomach...that I will have to have a surgery for...I talked to a surgeon in Dixon about it and he told me what he would do if he was doing it but he said he would be uncomfortable doing it because he thinks I should be around my kidney doctor and focus on that...finding a surgeon through him...so we did that and that's why I have the appointment tomorrow...I am so excited to get to my perm cath out but I am nervous too...I don't know how much it will hurt and I am hoping that I won't have a huge cut like Doctor Sader said could happen because that would take longer to heal and I probably wouldn't get to go swimming in Arizona if that happened...I don't think that I will have the whole huge cut but I am not sure...so who knows what will happen...I will say that although I hate this...

First this may end up being super long...just so you know...I actually wrote down stuff this week as it was happening...normally I forget it but this week there were too many things that I didn't want to forget... Second there will be some swearing in this...for those of you who think I would never even think of of those types of words well I bursting your bubble because sometimes nothing else really fits the situation...I know I know a lot of other words being a writer and all but sometimes you hit that mixture of pain/frustration/whatever else and no other words really work for that...so out comes a swear word...but I am getting ahead of myself a bit with that... To start this off and set the mood if you will I want to share two of my favorite verses with you...Psalm 27:13&14 "I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord."(NIV)...these verses are one ...

I sat down to write this and then saw that Star Wars Return of the Jedi was on TV...So I am having a hard time concentrating on this...needless to say I am a nerd about this kind of thing...I love me some Star Wars... I know this isn't the real C3P0 but when I saw him at Discovery Center in Rockford I did get excited...mom dad and I took the boys to the discovery center for a business anniversary thing for some friends' business and my nerdy side came out.... Not much has happened this week...been chillin around the house since I am so tired...I guess I should say that my hemoglobin on Monday was 7.4 so my doctor is holding off on a transfusion still trying really hard to get me to the 6 week point...I have an appointment with the GI doctor tomorrow and he will tell me more about the CAT scan...all I really know right now it that there is a mass on the outside of my stomach too and he wanted me to see a surgeon in town about it so that a surgeon can keep his eye on it...I se...