The only way to describe the news from the doctor after my first visit is guardedly not pessimistic. He thinks if it was cancer it would be a very very slow growing type, since the MRI actually shows the lesions as being smaller than the Ultrasound did. Meaning what ever they are, they haven’t grown at all in 3 months. So that is sort of good news. I still go for a biopsy and a chest CT—I had tuberculosis as a child and I guess they want to get a look at it, and do the biopsy under CT as well. Susie is coming in for a visit: yay!!
It was kind of scary at first at the lab in the oncologist. I followed the receptionist to the lab, and the room was literally filled with blood drawing stations, and they were chock full of people. Lots of old, sick people that looked like they were going to keel over at any second. But they seemed to be moving them out of there fairly fast. One woman came in and sat across from me, she had a port in her chest, like my mom had, so that it would be easy to get blood and give medication. She was not too much older than me, and she seemed in good spirits. She asked lots of question, talked to the lab folks, and greeted them by name, commented on hair cuts—from the 6 inch thick file that was sitting next to her, I gathered she was a very familiar face. But the fact that she wasn’t droopy and depressed was a good sign. At least I’m taking it that way.
And the woman who took my blood was absolutely first class good. One poke, got the vein, didn’t blow it and it bled beautifully. I was very impressed and I told her so. It’s always been such an ordeal in the past. I got stuck three times and STILL have bruises from where the MRI tech missed!
Dr. Nair is very nice, very young looking. He managed to answer all my questions, and was appreciative that I had done some research and brought the MRI films with me. All of the staff was great. Devon is Nair’s lab guy, and he introduced himself, and then Andrea as she came in, the LPN. Andrea mentioned that Dr. Wigewardane and Dr. Nair had been chatting about me—this really is a small town, after all…
Oh, and a funny point to high light that. David (the neighbor) mentioned that he had been checking on me at work! He had bought a ticket from one of the ladies in the travel depsrtment, and he asked about me--- the one that moved here from Texas. They said oh yes, that was Shelley. So, I’m standing there truing to figure out HOW he knew I worked at World Wide Travel, until I couldn’t stand it, I asked. Angel, the neighbor between us had already told him all the scoop about me! LOL so, you see, he must be quite the busy body, or else he’s interested. Wouldn’t that be fun?
I’m still at work, nearly 9PM. I have a fabulous project that I can’t believe I got to get my hands on. They had to install a new Virtual Private Network Server for a client in December, and since we have it, we are going to start migrating people over to it. I get to design the user groups, got to define the Subnet for the TCP/IP address we’re using and then install all of it in there and create the client packages that I’ll send out to the users. Very exciting stuff. I also got to show off some of my Novell skills too. There is a user that has a Novell client to log into a specific subset of printers, and I had to explain how it worked to her, so she could log in.
It’s been a long day and I think the animals are dying for me to show up with food, so I’m going to hit the store and maybe get something for dinner.
