Finals on test results

From the 1st CT in Sept., I had the gift that kept on giving!!!  Within the past two days, I got to review results of the gastroscopy and US follow-up on the mammogram.  NO Cancer and come back in 3 months for a regular check.  Talk about a 4 1/2 month emotional roller coaster.  Besides the many visits to Dr's, the hospital that didn't have it's collective act together, incomplete or no calls from the medical offices re results in a timely manner, etc. and then the bills, the weight gain over the holidays that is hard to take off.....you get the idea.  STRESS, which we know we are supposed to avoid.

The only real plus of the tests was the fact that Osteoporosis was discovered in my spine, so I'm now on Raloxifene, which may cause weight gain.

It's going to take a bit of time to get my brain back in gear.  And then I'll have to play nursemaid and bully when my hubby has another back surgery after spring vaca.

I hope no one has to go thru what I went thru-with cancer and with the screw ups that occurred the past few months.  I was in that Fight or Flight mode...and boy did I fight.  I made some enemies; but the hospital finally concluded they had a proceedural failure that was happening with 25% of patients who were being referred to the hospital for a variety of tests. The offices of referring Dr's were waiting until 2 days before the scheduled test to request pre-auth from the insurance companies.  But for some companies it should be 4-5 working days.  And patients, like me, were receiving phone calls from billing the eve before the test telling me the test was not authorized.  And if I were to have the test anyway, the ins. could deny payment on the entire amount; or I could cancel and foul up the entire domino effect of those involved.  "Luckily", the surgeon had a family emergeny and my gastroscopy had to be postponed another 3 weeks.

To say my tests were NED is kind of awkward.  For now, it was no evidence of disease/cancer in what was zapped, nuked, explored, photographed, u-sounded, palpated, etc.

And, BRRRRR.  we're finally getting the Arctic front on the Oregon coast.  

Hugs to all,

donna_lee