We got there a almost twenty minutes early and good thing because I thought we were supposed to be at the outpatient building but turned out it was the building where I've got for the ECG and another doctor. Not too far away and easily walked.
I came prepared with knitting, a grocery bag for my shoes to put in the hospital bag for my clothes, so filled out the form the receptionist gave me and still had another fifteen minutes. Finally called for me, left my watch and phone and the bag all with Jon DOH!
Nurse weighed me and apparently I'd lost about seven or eight pounds since I was last at the doctor. Kind of to be expected given what I had just gone through. Dr. Keller is very nice, amiable and wouldn't mind having him as my gastro doctor. Nurse asked me all the questions, then said if I needed to go to the bathroom now would be the time. Well I tried. Nothing much came out if anything so went back to the prep room and changed out. IV insert was not a problem at all, hardly felt a thing despite the nurse apologizing. I told her I've had blood draws worse than that.
Procedure went without a hitch. The rolling bed I was on was where I was going to be. Got me all hooked up with heart monitor, bp cuff, oxypulse meter so all the things with lots of cables to move around. Got the bed into position and nurse said to roll over on my left side (I had voiced concern about having the IV and bp cuff on that side and she said we work it out). I remembered the image I found on how they do colonoscopies so I rolled over and cocked the left leg up and all that and the nurse said, 'oh good job' I told them no one told me what was going to happen so had to look it up on my own'. Didn't have to reposition me at all, or if they did I don't remember. Had to roll over onto my back of course but don't remember doing that. They give you some good stuff for sure!
I was still very groggy when Dr Keller came by and said they took some biopsies of inflammation they saw but no polyps were seen. That's good, but Crohn's is still the primary diagnosis. I really wanted to sleep for another half hour at least but they wanted to hustle me out of there sooner rather than later. I thought I would be sore but nothing. I've had worse hemorrhoids that were painful. Oh the notes on the results did say internal hemorrhoids so hoping that's what's been causing the blood issues.
I had told Amber I wanted Del Taco chicken tacos on the way home so we stopped there and got two tacos for me and two burritos for Jon. Sadly, did not live up to expectation of previous food. The chicken tacos were more like mashed chicken rather than the chunks I remember and Jon said the carne asada burritos were meh and had more lemon flavor. Weird. The guacamole we ordered was starting to turn brown too...bad very bad.
So total turn around time is about 4 hours. Got to the hospital around 2:45 and was out the door and on the way home by 4 I think. Procedure itself only took about 20 or 30 minutes I was rather out of it and wasn't paying attention to the time. I do know that we got home around 6, Jon got me set up in bed with my food, I inhaled my tacos, had some water, changed out of my clothes into my nightshirt and fell promptly asleep for an hour and a half, maybe two hours.
Woke up, used the bathroom, nothing amazing there, fixed a ham sandwich, scarfed that down and then sat up for a while just relaxing. Next thing I knew it was almost 10 and Jon was coming in to settle for the night. Finally turned off the light around 11 and struggled to sleep, go figure.
Next on the itinerary is meeting with Yusefian about my cough and her assessment of the results. More news when Keller comes back with final analysis of biopsies and all that jazz. Still tired but ongoing fatigue is to be expected from the kisqali and exemestane.
Right....
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