Good morning... how is everyone doing this morning? It looks like we're in for another rainy day. I have to admit, there have been too many of these rainy days and I'm getting a bit tired of them. We've had rain during some portion of every day during the past week (or longer) and if it's not rainy, the clouds are gathering to rain or haven't dissipated yet from the last rain, etc... Can you tell I need my sunshine?? lol
Anyway, my week has been taken up with medical issues again. This is all getting pretty old. Anyway, I mentioned last week that I'd taken another test for H Pylori and it had come back positive, but I had to wait to hear from the doctor before anything could be done. I hadn't heard anything by Tuesday, so I figured I should call them, since that's what the doctor told me to do.
Of course, when you call a doctor's office, you only get to talk to a receptionist and that put the rest of the week on a slippery slope that was pretty stressful. I'll spare all the details, but the week ended up with an H Pylori treatment that's unlikely to work as it's only half strong enough, a grudging referral (from the NP, not my doctor) to a gastroenterologist and an order for an abdominal ultrasound, along with a new bulge in my tummy that appears to be a hernia.
I was not the least bit happy with my doctor's office but then it's not the first time I haven't been happy with them. My first impulse is to find a different doctor, but then when I think about it, I'd probably run into the same, or worse, things with any other doctors. This is the same conclusion I've reached on other occasions, which is the reason I'm still with my doctor... For the most part, he does pretty good - he's just a little slow on the uptake with some things, particularly when it comes to referrals to specialists, doing additional tests, etc. We could have things resolved by the time he gets around to deciding we need to do something further if he's just do it sooner...
Anyway, I haven't heard from the gastro's office yet, so I may have to call them tomorrow to make sure they got the referral. I do have an appointment for the ultrasound in the morning. Fortunately, the imaging facility posts those results on their patient portal so I don't have to wait for the doctor's office to call me with results. I'll just print the results and take them with me to the gastro appointment whenever I get one.
In the meantime, I'm struggling with what I can/can't eat because of acid reflux - it's not very much. For the past couple of weeks, I've been sticking to yogurt, watermelon, oatmeal and bananas. I ate some cereal last night and at first I thought it was going to be okay, but it didn't work out too well after all, so I guess that's off the menu. I also tried a ground beef patty for lunch yesterday, but that didn't work too well either... I guess it doesn't really matter what I eat; it takes so little to fill me up, it's not worth cooking anything large.
Anyway through all of this, I've managed to lose 1.4 lbs since last week. I'm surprised it's not more, but my thyroid levels have dropped also, which could be part of the reason for my acid reflux, so that probably has my metabolism out of whack. Of course, my doctor doesn't believe my thyroid hormone levels are low enough to be causing any of this so once again, I'm stuck where I am.
Anyway, my weight is going in the right direction, even if being ill isn't the right way to lose it. I did manage to go out yesterday evening and walk down to the mailbox - we have a long driveway - plus I puttered in the yard for about 20 minutes or so before I got tired. I can feel my muscles getting weaker and more painful from not doing anything but mowing the lawn once/week and I didn't even do that this past week because I had my doctor's appointment the day my husband mowed... If I don't get back to exercising more, I'm going to get to the point at which I'll not be able to.
So - what about you? I hope your week has been good and you've reached whatever goal(s) you've set for yourself.
~~Wishing everyone a wonderful successful week~~