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By: Zimbler0 in POPE 5 | Recommend this post (3)
Wed, 22 Jan 20 3:23 AM | 37 view(s)
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Decomposed > It's been a rough 2½ months. Doesn't feel much like I'm getting better.


Well,
At least you are still above the flowers,
and not below the roots.

Glad you are still with us.

Zim.




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Doctor's visit...
By: Decomposed in POPE 5
Tue, 21 Jan 20 7:34 PM 		Msg. 49521 of 62138

I saw my doctor yesterday - my general practitioner. It's the first time I've seen him since mid-December. We had a lot of ground to cover and he gave me a lot of time. I like the guy.

He looked at my chest, the flesh of which has healed up nicely, but zeroed in on the sole remaining scab, a little string-like spot at the solar plexus. It's about an inch below my 6-inch scar. The curious thing is that it hasn't fallen off yet. The others were all gone two weeks ago. I mentioned that to the doctor, along with the fact that the thing is hanging on tightly even though it spins like a string. "What is it?" I asked. "A piece of suture?" He really didn't know but decided that it had to come off.

"It's interfering with healing," he said.

He tried scraping it off, but that only got me bleeding. He eventually pulled out a set of tweezers and a set of scissors and cut it off. So I'll get a nice, new scab now and probably be be healed up in a week.

He had no objection to my request for a separate prescription with which to acquire a 1-year reserve of Warfarin. He agreed that my insurance company would most-likely object to it, and my pharmacy too. I told him I'd pay for the drug on my own and use a separate pharmacy. He recommended going with a mail-order pharmacy, perhaps out of Canada, so that's what I'll do. It DOES incur some risk of confiscation when it goes through customs.

We talked about that a little. "Why should they confiscate it?" I asked. "It's not an addictive drug. Nobody's going to get high off of it."

"You could use it to kill someone," he said.

That struck me as funny. "There are far better choices if that's what you want to do," I said. "Warfarin tastes terrible!"

He laughed. "They did it in 'Dumb & Dumber', giving a heart patient warfarin instead of nitro-glycerin."

Okay. I don't remember that scene but it sounds like it was funny.

I told him about my problem with getting dehydrated at night, mostly caused by sleeping on my back which seems to make my bladder fill far faster than if I sleep on either side and asked if that could be caused by an enlarged prostate. He said an enlarged prostate wouldn't cause me to process water any faster but decided to give me the finger (a DRE) anyway just to find out. Yup, it's enlarged. Lucky me. He didn't feel anything else abnormal and said the enlarged prostate doesn't suggest anything bad except that I'm getting older. When I have my next blood draw - in April if I'm still around in April - it will include a PSA test to screen for prostate cancer. He prescribed Flomax for me. Flomax is supposed to reduce the prostate. If you remember, I used Flomax briefly in December but stopped when both of my eyes had blood vessels burst. He doesn't think Flomax was responsible.

And he doubled my Atorvastatin prescription, saying that my cholesterol level had significantly worsened.

It's been a rough 2½ months. Doesn't feel much like I'm getting better.

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