Surgeons and Doctors and Nurses...Oh My!

It's been a bit longer than what I was hoping for but I have good reasons! I promise! Over the last few weeks I have been (seemingly) inundated with doctors. The first I told you about: the vet. The next one was for me, about a week and a half ago I came down with SEVERE allergies. They were so intense and so fast that I didn't plan well enough and ended up with double ear infections and a ruptured ear drum. If you have never had an ear infection let me just say it feels like someone is stabbing you in the ear with a long thin sharp object "OUCH!". If you have never had a ruptured ear drum this is how I described it to Clint "It sounded and felt like someone set off a bomb in my ear." It was loud and extremely painful. Currently I'm 10 days from the initial infection and am finishing up my antibiotics but still can't really hear out of my right ear. I ended up at Urgent Care on Saturday around noon when the pain hadn't subsided, I didn't know (for sure) that I'd ruptured an eardrum but when you are draining blood out of your ear it's a pretty good indication. Anyway, he gave me the antibiotics and it took six days for the draining to stop, the blood stopped after about three days.

Then on Monday I went to the surgeon's appointment with Clint's mom, Kathleen, about her gastric bypass surgery that was to take place on Wednesday. All of her tests were okay except her EKG which he didn't like so he has postponed her surgery. She goes to a cardiologist tomorrow (Tuesday) so we will see what happens. That appointment was from 8:00am - 1:00pm...really, really long!

On the following Wednesday Gweny looked at me and whether it was on purpose or accident she swallowed a coin she'd put in her mouth and showed me. Needless to say we went to her pediatrician. It made it past her esophagus and into her stomach and they told me to watch for it in her poo. Gross. I haven't seen it yet but she's had a bit of diarrhea so I wasn't going to go looking for buried treasure in that mess.

So there it is. Surgeons, vets, pediatricians, nurses, waiting rooms, blah! I'm excited to go through a non-doctor stretch for a while, my next follow-up is on May 16, 2010, so we will see how I'm progressing. Hopefully that's the last one for awhile, unless Kathleen gets to have surgery soon. :)