The News Continues…
So we head to the hematologist on Christmas Eve… first of all it is downtown at St. Anthony’s in the Cancer Care Center… (but that isn’t supposed to alarm you… yeah right…) I had to have a police officer escort me through the hospital because I went very unprepared (remember, I did not make the appt.) I didn’t even know the doctors name, or anything… everyone looked at me like I was crazy… well, we found the dr and before I could see him they called me into the lab to take some more blood… guess he wanted his own… I was thinking, here we go again… this nurse was so nice… (I always warn them ahead of time… sometimes this backfires, because they think they are the one nurse that is going to get me on the first stick… other times… they look and say “wow… now I see why you say that… J) I let her know that the last time they took blood they were able to get it out from my hand… so she tried here first… and about 4 tries later gave up… she moved to the middle of my arm (have never see that before) and hit a vein right away… she said to tell nurses in the future to use a pediatric needle… I need a little baby needle for my baby veins… the I got to see the nurse who preps you for the hematologist… she took all the vitals and then hands me a gown and says strip down and the opening goes to the back… (What!!! This is a blood dr… why do I need to put on a gown… I was not prepared for this!!!) the dr comes in and basically agrees with my original dr that I am extremely anemic and isn’t concerned, but says we just need to figure it out… he believed it was being caused by my very heavy monthly visit… (the blessing of being a woman…) more numbers… I had a 2% make up of red blood cells to white blood cells… and some other number was at a 1… he said most “normal” men and women were at a 300… not sure what that number was, but obviously.. mine was pretty low… my other CMV number had also gone down… so much for eating all the iron enriched foods… after he asked all of his questions and we talked about options for helping with the anemia (iron IV treatments… in next blog… and talking to the girl dr about new birth control options…) he did a full physical exam… didn’t know this was part of the process… but thankful that it was… he found a “large mass” in my lower abdomen… he said I might be really constipated… or maybe I hadn’t peed in a couple of days… I assured him this was not the case, and he said he just knew that it was not my uterus and he didn’t know what it was… he said he would order an ultrasound, but knew that my girl dr would want to have her own ultrasound and didn’t want me to have to pay for two… so… I would just wait and have the one with the girl dr… i also told him about us talking about having a family and he reiterated that it was not an option at this point… he said we would have to figure out all of this stuff first and then we could talk about family options… this was pretty devastating to hear… I came home to tell dusty and I still don’t think he understands why I was more upset about being told we couldn’t start trying to start a family than this mysterious mass in my lower abdomen… that is just something that women don’t want to hear… at anytime I think, but especially when it seemed like the timing was coming so close… I called the girl dr right away… and the first time she could get me in was Jan 12!!! I have a mass… and the earliest was Jan 12???? I called the hematologist back to make sure this wasn’t too long to wait (medically… emotionally I already knew it was too long to wait…) and he said that it would be fine, just to make sure that they did the ultrasound to see what the mass was… and to come in for the iron treatments… so again we have 3 weeks to wait… luckily Christmas was during this time and that was distracting… also my best friend had a new year’s baby and I got to spend a lot of time being distracted with this beautiful little one…
Next step IV iron treatments start…
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