FRUSTRATION...I needed to vent.

Just a short update this time... feeling very frustrated and needed to vent a little.

 I have two doctor appointments this week, Monday and Tuesday, so hopefully one will get somewhere.  The edema is really bad right now...my feet and ankles, plus half way up to my knees looks like it belongs on a elephant instead of me.  I can barely walk.  Plus my eyelids are swollen too...certainly doesn't make me feel like leaving the house...which, since I can't really walk, I'm not doing anyways.

As of Tuesday, I will have a new family practice doctor.  The last one, as it turned out, left little to be desired.  I actually received a threatening letter?  WTH, is that how doctor's practice now...what happened to the Hippocratic oath?  Over the last few weeks, I have left voice-mails and actual messages with her office staff and never received a return phone call.  Tried to set up appointments, only to be told they had no openings, not even with the other doctors in the office, so if I really needed to be seen I should go to urgent care.  So, I sent her an email...which I guess was a sin.  The letter I received in return stated that if I needed to reach her, I should call, leave a message or set up an appointment...(I tried all three), but that if I sent another email, she would "discharge" me, as her patient.  Hmmm...well....I don't respond well to threats...so I'm "discharging" myself.

Anyways, I saw the gastro specialist last Thursday.  He recommended this new doctor I am going to on Tuesday (I see the pain specialist on Monday).  The Hida Scan was normal..no sphincter of oddi dysfunction, which is a good thing.  But, he wants to take a look to see if anything has been missed by the other doctors, so I am scheduled for another EGD scope on May 1st.   I am supposed to go get blood drawn on Thursday, so they can see if the kidney infection is gone...which, as of right now, since I am still running a fever and still have burning and flank pain, I know its not, plus the thrush is back.  My immune system is shot to hell. I am just so tired of being sick...someone has got to figure this out.

Will update again later in the week...hopefully with better news.