Archive for November 7th, 2008
The MRI
Posted by: Admin on: November 7, 2008
It’s mid-September. The [very lousy] insurance company gets around to approving the MRI and my daughter finally gets an appointment. We arrive for the evening appointment at the hospital. We don’t wait very long and it’s time to go back. My daughter takes me, to help her change, and the tech would take her back to [...]
Follow-Up Phone Calls And A Neurology Visit
Posted by: Admin on: November 7, 2008
About four days later, the primary doctor’s office called and said the echo was normal. The day after the neuromuscular doctor would call. The newest blood work showed a normal thyroid TSH T3 and T4, but suggested keeping any appointment with an endocrinologist, when we were able to get one. There was a slight elevation in [...]
Echocardiogram
Posted by: Admin on: November 7, 2008
It’s Friday and there will be two appointments today; one for an echocardiogram and one for the primary physician. We arrive at the hospital and go to the basement floor. The echo lab seems enormous, but once checked in, my daughter, my husband and I find a small out of the way corner to sit in. I’m not sure why we [...]
