Our flight home Saturday was uneventful. The timing was such that we were able to drop off the rental car, attend mass at the airport chapel, and then have dinner at Legal Seafood before we boarded. It was nice to have that one last New England meal before we left, but I was more than ready to come home.
Now that we are back, we're in that whirlwind of appointments and other random things that need to get done. I am luxuriating in having so much time at home, but I'm already fighting the tendency to just sit around reading. It seems foolish to complain about the heat, but it would be stupid to plan outdoor activities when it's 108 degrees out there.
The crab, the pelvic/lower back pain that has been my constant companion since the end of March, is much the same. This morning I saw my GP to be cleared for surgery on Friday. Yesterday I spent an hour just getting the paperwork from my urologist's office; it took that long to get the insurance information. I just started a new plan year on July 1, but I think I will have met my deductible by the end of this week! I am very lucky that we can afford for me to have all these health issues.
That paperwork included a release form which was basically terrifying. On the upside, I don't have any of the symptoms of bladder cancer like blood in my urine, and the cytology didn't find any abnormal cells there, either. I'm also not having fatigue, or problems with my digestion, either. So I don't have any of the usual symptoms of really bad things, except I still have this pain. My urologist was skeptical that what she saw in my bladder could be causing the pain I'm having, but she's going to check everything out while under anesthesia on Friday. My biggest hope is that she can figure out what's going on.
I have been going a little crazy chasing rabbits on the internet. There are only so many ways I can put my symptoms into the different symptom-checkers, and they all say the same things, except for the Isabella, which brings up scary things like abdominal aortic aneurysm, which is something that nearly killed my father. But if I had that, it would have shown up on the CT scan, I think, although the lack of contrast limited what they could visualize. Other research topics: bladder wall irregularities, bladder cancer, urethral dilation, the correlation of RAI treatments and additional cancers. All this since we've been home, and it's only Tuesday morning.
Meanwhile, my vision field test will by Thursday morning, and I'm wondering how that will go. I've had 3 significant nose bleeds in the past month. I had that weird occurrence last fall, but usually I never get them. My guess is they are related to dry environments or dehydration, but that doesn't seem to fit the circumstances.
I have been really strict with myself about avoiding wheat, and it is paying off in better digestion and minimal joint pain. If I drive for any great length of time, my hands are swollen the next morning, and I wonder if that means I really do have something going on, arthritis-wise. But as long as I stay away from wheat, I don't wake up feeling like I've been hit but a truck, and that's a win. Trying to stay focused on the positive.
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