Happy New Year!! I hope everybody had great family time for the holidays even though family time might have looked a little different this time. In the midst of the holiday craziness, I was pursuing additional tests and such to try to figure out the abdominal pain issue once and for all. For a while it was getting better. The osteopathic manipulation seemed to be helping. Until about a month ago it happened again. At work. Debilitating. My hubby picked me up and drove me home. The pain subside mid day. I slept for several hours. Tried to hydrate as much as possible upon waking up. Are a light dinner and it started again. Ugh.
So the next day I called the GI doctor I saw in the hospital back in May. Got a virtual appointment that afternoon with the NP. After describing my symptoms and pain location she ordered an ultrasound and blood work. Blood work looks pretty good. But they did see gallstones on the ultrasound. So she wants to schedule me for an EGD and HIDA scan. I don’t feel super comfortable having them do an EGD since they don’t really know my anatomy, so I reached out to my surgeon at the NIH. He’d like me to go out to Maryland as soon as COVID calms down a bit again so they can do these tests and try to figure out the source of my severe intermittent pain. So that’s the plan. Hopefully I’ll be out there in a couple months. And hopefully I don’t experience the pain again until we can figure this out.
On a side note, life has been a bit crazy with the holidays, a wedding in the family, and my sons 6th birthday coming up. I keep telling myself things will settle down after his birthday. But will it really? We have projects we want to get done outside while weather is nice. It seems there is always something. Do you ever feel that way? Don’t get me wrong, we enjoy the little things in life through the craziness, but it would be real nice to just be and not feel like we need to be doing something all the time. Is it just me?
