Sexy....

LOVE this song... sexy, WEIRD, just hot!  And it sounds sooooo good in my car.  ;)  Yes, it is rather odd that a vegan would post this. lol

Fell off the grid for a bit, didn't I?

It happens to the best of us.  Plus there's still a lot of house renovations going on.  And yeah, that was supposed to be finished, but you know how it is.  One thing is shiny and new, and the thing next to it looks like crap. lol  Yeah.  Really.

Juicy bits---plant-based diet works well for me, but DAMN it's hard to find stuff they don't add milk or eggs to!  Didn't eat for most of the day the other day, so yeah... was feeling a little woozy.  Stopped by a gas station to find something to snack on.  Found a bag of chips--no, NOT the best choice but better than most--dill flavor.  DILL.  Whipped out my trusty app, "Is it Vegan?" and scanned it.  NOPE.  NOT vegan!  Whey in the ingredients.  I mean, really?  Who puts milk products on potato chips?  It wasn't ranch flavor.  It was DILL! lol  Pickles and milk.  eeeeew!

Oh well. lol  I had a good laugh and moved on.

Other health issues are hanging out there and awaiting scrutiny by specialists.

Lung nodule still needs to be evaluated.  I opted for a second opinion due to the fact that the first pulmonary doctor didn't know the difference between 1.1 mm and 1.1 cm.  HUGE difference!  So that appt will come soon.  She did express deep concerns, as did the rheumatologist, with regards to the plethora of lab values that were out of range.  Most of these were associated with the liver.  Long story, that.  I see that specialist July 20th.  The symptoms and pain is getting worse, so we'll see if I can hold out that long.

Well, I plan to post a bit more often.  Right now there is SO much I need to say.  But I just can't at the moment.  Much to be done with regards to choosing paint, lighting, etc. to finish the front bath.  And there's the kitchen to be dealt with.

Till tomorrow....

When a kidney stone is a GOOD thing

When they lead you to have a CT scan and something is found that may have otherwise have not been found until much later.  "Early" is a good thing.  Really.

So, yeah... last weekend wasn't one of my better weekends, but hey.. stuff happens, right?  When your urine looks like cranberry juice.. it's high time to go have it checked out.  Suspected kidney stone(s)... and off to the ER so I can be sent to radiology for a CT scan to confirm there is in fact stones and where they are.. and if they're obstructing anything.

Yep.  Two stones, they said.  One in the ureter (ouch!), and the other in the kidney and not moving thus far.  Drink a lot of water, take these drugs... and if things get worse come back.  Ok.

Things got worse, but not in the way you would think.  Back I went.  Saw two D.O.'s (love those docs)... and they think something AI is going on and that I should see a rheumatologist.  Okay.  Off I go to see yet another Dr.

A few days later I'm looking at the sheet they sent me home with from the hospital, the one from my CT scan.  The one that sat on my dining room table for about a week.  And there at the top of the list of findings was this....

ABDOMEN: Lung bases: No infiltrate of effusion.  A 1.1 cm nodule in postro basal segment of left lower lung.  Follow-up using Fleischner criteria suggested.

Top of the list of findings, and you guys didn't, you know, consider mentioning this? lol  Okay.  Well, the rheumatologist did.  "You need to have your primary care physician refer you to a pulmonologist. That nodule needs further investigation."

Well alrighty then.

I've been looking for another PC physician because the one I have, as I've discovered over the last year and a half, is more interested in writing prescriptions than actually helping.  He takes an eternity to refer me to specialists when needed, ignores symptoms for so long that I have to literally INSIST on getting a referral, and this... seems to be no exception.  I found a pulmonary doc I want to see and called my PC doc and made the request, explained why... and... have heard nothing back.  If I were already a patient I could have made the appt myself, so I was told by the receptionist.  But they require a referral.

Spoke to the receptionist at the pulmonologist's office and she was actually quite shocked that my dr hadn't bothered to call for a referral right away.  She is taking it upon herself to get my records sent over and try to do things from her end instead.  I like this clinic already.

And my primary doctor is... so fired.