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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Prayers Tomorrow, Please!

I suppose this one is to be more of a vent. Or a prayer request. I'm just not sure.

We changed my heart meds last week b/c one of the medications. I'm on med 3 and nothing has brought my levels under 100 for an extended period of time or gotten rid of all the lovely things (like allowing me to walk without becoming winded!) like it should. My feet and hands have started tingling and feeling numb. My toes also started turning a lovely shade or purply-blue. The blue thing has happened on several other occasions and when I asked another doc about it, she'd said it was fine. FINE??! Blue toes aren't fine....

So, when I called my EP the nurse said, "come on in now". I went in, the doc looked at my toes- saw that they are blue and ordered an ABI to be done then. The 'people' came in and did my ABI (which hurt in one leg... as she warned. You wouldn't think just taking a pressure would be painful). I'm cutting out details here as I have a homework assignment due in a few hours. I was sent to check out and be on my way- they were going to call with the results.

I kinda freaked when the nurse caught up with me and said "I'm glad I caught you, we are trying to get your insurance to pre-auth a MRI and MRA now, can you just sit in the waiting room?" Um... ok. Flip out. So, I sat there and text my mom and was to the point on little water droplets in my eyes. The nurse came back out and just had me come back there b/c one of the nurses had the insurance on the phone and one had central scheduling on the line. My ABI ended up being .94 and 1.00. I was told that anything below 1 is abnormal. Anything below .95 is "significant narrowing of one or more veins in one or both legs." My Doc spoke with another Doc while I was there, we didn't get the test scheduled for that day b/c it's a 3 to 4 hour deal. And, the machine wasn't open. So, I go in at 2pm tomorrow.

Conclusion: the blood is not circulating to (and through) my legs/feet like it should be. We are going to figure out why. So, Dr B says. This can be related to my heart thing or not. We don't know.

I do NOT fit in the "approriate categories for any of this stuff. I am young, never smoked, I don't do drugs, or drink (well... not like they are talking!), my BMI is perfect... it just doesn't add up. And, my Doc says that. "This happens to 80 year olds, not people like you". Yes... he said that!

Anyway... I get to be in a tiny space for a while tomorrow and I'm just a little concerned about everything going on. So, please keep our family in your prayers. I had a test today and yesterday. And, still working on all of Logen's stuff. And, it's just really overwhelming!!!!

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2 comments:

  1. Oh Jess. My thoughts and prayers are with you. You have had a rough, rough year and I am so amazed by your strength and grace. I will be thinking of you tomorrow and praying for the best. Please update us as soon as you know

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  2. I'm so sorry that you're having such a difficult time. I'm sure you must be scared. I'll be thinking of you.

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