Gremlins
Since a week can't go by without me shelling out hard earned dough as co-pays, I went back to the lady parts doctor this week. Ironically, it was the day that in class I shirked from a spider. As I protected myself with the podium and told my underclassmen to "kill that thing, don't hold back," several students laughed. Several weeks ago something similar occurred, and they got to learn that in my youth my brother put spiders in my sock drawer. Thirty-some years later that is almost funny. Well, my students said I should lead them and how would they not be afraid with me showing my fear. We chuckled, and I told them to "do what I say and not what I do." Ha!
None-the-less, in the thread of leading--and as I said on my Facebook status while at the gyno's office--ladies should go see their lady parts doctors.
So why was I back two weeks after my annual? My Pap was clear, no HPV . . . cysts, that's what. There's one sitting at 4.9 on my left ovary, and now we have to wait and see if the birth control shrinks it. If not . . . let's hope for shrinkage, not growage or rupturage. Really, no rupture. So, unless the pain gets worse or unbearable (sometimes it is pretty damned bad) I go back for another ultrasound in January. I realize I should be more afraid than what I am, but in 1999 I had cysts surgically removed (one the size of a chicken egg, the standard kind) and I've had several rupture. Let's hope for an easy path for once.
On other notes, Lupus guy called with the blood work. The gremlins continue to reproduce as I'm adding 2000mg of vitamin D to my daily power packs. My tally . . . birth control, plaguenil, iron, multi-vitamins, metoprolol, Advil (for the Franks, knee, and all around Lupus aches), and vitamin D. Oh, and don't forget cranberry tablets. Or that I had to give a second culture as I have a possible infection.
All these pills might make me Wonder Woman with drugs, but any more and they won't all fit in my hand. Gremlins, I tell ya. Gremlins.
None-the-less, in the thread of leading--and as I said on my Facebook status while at the gyno's office--ladies should go see their lady parts doctors.
So why was I back two weeks after my annual? My Pap was clear, no HPV . . . cysts, that's what. There's one sitting at 4.9 on my left ovary, and now we have to wait and see if the birth control shrinks it. If not . . . let's hope for shrinkage, not growage or rupturage. Really, no rupture. So, unless the pain gets worse or unbearable (sometimes it is pretty damned bad) I go back for another ultrasound in January. I realize I should be more afraid than what I am, but in 1999 I had cysts surgically removed (one the size of a chicken egg, the standard kind) and I've had several rupture. Let's hope for an easy path for once.
On other notes, Lupus guy called with the blood work. The gremlins continue to reproduce as I'm adding 2000mg of vitamin D to my daily power packs. My tally . . . birth control, plaguenil, iron, multi-vitamins, metoprolol, Advil (for the Franks, knee, and all around Lupus aches), and vitamin D. Oh, and don't forget cranberry tablets. Or that I had to give a second culture as I have a possible infection.
All these pills might make me Wonder Woman with drugs, but any more and they won't all fit in my hand. Gremlins, I tell ya. Gremlins.
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