Hello, What is up today? I am at work and someone in registration is sick, so they pulled me to work resistration today. I was supposed to float in endoscopy so I was kind of an extra person. I am ok with that because today we have the surveyors here doing our inspections and they tend to go around and ask arbitrary questions to people and now I wont have to deal with that.

I talked to my doctor last night. He called me at 9:15 in response to my fax that I sent both doctors. At first he was kind of nasty and said he was really put out by what I wrote. After I explained to him why I was feeling the way I was he kind of calmed down a little and we were able to talk about what the plan is. We were on the phone for about a half an hour.

He said that he did not feel that i needed the CT scan at this time because we had just done one. He said depending on what the EUS I have scheduled on Friday shows he will decide if we will do another CT scan.

He did say that doing the EUS is difficult on patients with bariatric surgery but he feels that if they can do it and see what they need to see it will give them some information.

I discussed with him my concerns about my hospital stay and he, of course, had an explanation for everything that they did or didn't do in a timely manner. Probably something I am not going to get any satisfaction on, so will probably just drop that issue.

He explained that the growth hormone blood test is not something that is urgent that something showed up in my blood work that was abnormal and my endocrinologist wants to double check it. I explained that the doctor never told me any of this and that is why I was so confused about the plan. I still have not gotten a call back from that doctors office to answer those questions.


they don't believe that I have an insulinoma but are still looking into the nisidiosblastosis thingy. I have consulted with a dietician at his request to see if she can help me plan my food with less carbs. Gosh to have to take something else out of what I am allowed to eat will be painful. I am already so limited now.

The medicine that they gave me to take to keep my blood sugar up may or may not be working. I haven't dropped really low for a couple of weeks, but still drift down after I eat and am having symptoms. so don't know what to make of that.

So, I am having this EUS done on Friday and we will see from there what the plan is.

The doctor does understand now that I am concerned about getting things done because my insurance will have to change soon and he understands that Darren is not working and I can't afford to do a bunch of expensive unnessecary medical tests.
I did make it clear to him that as a patient, I did not expect to be made to feel like I was being a pain just because I was asking a lot of questions, that if as a nurse, I still had a lot of questions and didn't understand than he was letting the ball down on his side because i was not an idiot.

I will keep you posted. I will call you on Sat. and let you know how the procedure goes. Starting next week, I will not have Wednesday off anymore. I am going to start working 5 8 hour days so that I can work a full 40 hour week and not just 36. They are going to allow me to do that until Darren is working agian. I hate to give up my day off, but it doesn't make sense for me to not be working 40 hours a week when he is off. It makes about a $200 difference in my paycheck