Well, my cyst has gone way down in size but it is not gone and still has some lingering redness. So, watch and wait. If it blows up again it will be augmentin for me. I went to a doc on Wednesday and she said no one will remove it until it calms down. And, by the way, she doesn't do that and only one other Family Med provider there does. What? What the heck people? You are a Doctor and a Family Med Doc at that! You can't remove a cyst? Sheesh I think I could do it if I had some lidocaine, a scapel and some thread. What a bunch of pansies. Jon has a real advantage in that he can do many so-called surgical procedures because he did a year of Surgery. That makes a Family Med Doc much more attractive to a patient. Nobody wants to have to go see a different Doc all the time. Too much specialization I say. *Sigh*
Yesterday was spent investigating my female issues. The good news is that it looks like I don't have what I thought I did and am therefore cancer free. The not-so-great news is that upon examination of my uterus, Dr. H declared it to be the size of someone about 8 weeks pregnant. That is always nice to hear...He recommended an ultrasound for a baseline of things in there. What? I am thinking, a Doc that wants to take preventative measures and actually get a baseline for something? Wow. Now that is what I would expect at Mayo. Gynecology has had some recent retirements so a few of the older consultants have come out of retirement until these positions are filled. Here you see the nation-wide problem with getting Docs into Primary Care. They all want the money and grand lifestyle these days so they are not going into medicine to help folks so much as to raise themselves up. I have seen this close up and personal. It is very sad. In the end, others pay the price. You end up with specialists that are not that great and no Primary Care. In any case, I was happy and lucky to get this guy. He is detailed, very thorough and bright.Jon looked up the results for me last night. The results show a large fibroid tumor in the uterus and a cyst on the cervix. All benign. The fibroid is no surprise as I know my mother had some of these. Despite it's size, I never knew it was there. The cyst does not bother me either but I can't help but wonder why I am getting those suckers everywhere!We have had a really nice Thanksgiving Holiday. Dinner was wonderful. We had Pete and Rachel and my little sweetie over as well as my friend Tracy. Too bad the Packers and Cowboys won but they always pick loser teams to play on Thanksgiving to assure a win! We ate, played with Max, played some games and went to bed. Tracy and I enjoyed a really nice champange we had at a wine tasting and a nice wine as well. I was really hoping to do Christmas cards today but I am not very happy with the pictures we had taken. We might have to do our own again. I am really disappointed though. I wanted some nice formal pictures. Max is only smiling in two of them and the photographer positioned me in such away that I don't even look like I am part of the larger group. We have had great luck with him before but this time I just wasn't impressed.I am going to get ready and go walk with Tracy, do some shopping and then maybe meet Rachel and Max up at the RAC for awhile. We don't generally get our tree until the first weekend of Dec but I might like to get some decorations and the Advent box out today. I will be getting a nap as I am nursing a wicked cold. Thanks for killing my body's natural "good" biotics Keflex. *Sigh*Multi strain resistant bacteria. That might be why the current anti-biotic is not pulling in the infection like it should. So says my husband. So, today we get to go on Bactrim. Goody goody. This just never ends! I try to rest and keep away from stress so the healing can go faster but that is hard to do with a full time job and Thanksgiving and Christmas knocking at the door. I was hoping it would be healed by Wednesday so when I go in to see a Doc she can cut it out. Now I think it will just end up being a consult. *BIG SIGH*. This means I have to wait Lord knows how long for it to heal and then probably miss school to go in and have it done. Tick tock, tick tock. If you get a cyst, get it cut out. Don't wait!
At least this distracts me from the other thing going on. I have an appt. Friday with the Gynecologist. More fun! I just can't get enough of Mayo! :(I tried to lance that sucker yesterday. By myself since my husband decided basketball was more important. It was very painful and did nothing for me. The holes were just not big enough to drain it. Now I have little holes in it that decided to drain in the middle of teaching today. Still painful with no end in sight.
I have been going to school for a two days now and taking the anitbiotic for three. When is it supposed to work? *sigh*
I didn't get the sub I wanted yesterday and as a consequence she had a hard time with my 5th grade. They are a pretty tough group and it takes a special hand to win them. The margins around my cyst look better so think I'll give it a go today. I really hate missing school! I know my kids missed me! The pain from the cyst is still at an "8" on the pain scale but Advil works well to bring it to a 3 or so. I am just glade the infection is better. Once that sucker is healed it is coming OUT!
I don't like antibiotics. I have had some bad experiences that have deepened my mistrust of them. I am in the camp of don't take them unless you *really* need them as they kill some of the good things in your body along with the bad. You can imagine that I must be a little worried to take them now. I can actually count on one hand how many times I have had them. As a child with pneumonia (penicillan), once at ASU for a massive sinus infection and after my C-section with Rhi as a precaution. It is possible I had some after my D&C post Rachel partum but I don't remember.
I have developed a cyst under my left breast and it has become very infected. It is extremely painful and has an angry red center with red radiating out from it. Of course Jon has been on call so the only way I could have him look at it was to drive out to Wabasha. We were going to come out this morning anyway to attend a waffle breakfast fundraiser for the new Surgery at the hospital. Jon said it looked like it needed some antibiotic so he wrote out a prescription for me (saved my own little ER trip by going to his!). It was pretty awesome to have my own husband write out a prescription for me! I hope it is the last, however, as far as this kind of thing goes. I normally wouldn't worry so much but the untimely death of Heather at age 37 from a massive infection has me thinking twice. If anything can be learned from such a horrible thing it is to listen to your body, slow down and do what you have to do to heal. I just called in a sub for tomorrow which I hate to do too. I hate missing school. I always have even when I was a kid. I have already missed two days this year and this makes three. *Sigh*. I know I need to just rest though and let the antibiotic do its thing. Still no fever but it takes an awful lot for my body to spike one. I am tired though and ready to start resting now! Thanks to this stupid cyst I got almost nothing done this weekend. I hate that. Behind right from the start...This sucks and its weird too. As soon as the infection is gone that sucker is getting cut out!! I should have done it a long time ago. Why is my family so cystic? Yuck!On a very positive note- Vikes won and Dallas lost! To the Packers no less! How awesome is that!Wow! What a great day! Take that haters!
Jez is doing much better. She isn't out and out falling down and rolling anymore. She still had kind of a wide stance and wobbles a bit but seems much better for movement. Her head is still a little tilted and I won't trust her on stairs yet but I find it amazing that she goes about her day as if nothing is wrong and tries to do it all. Her breathing seems more labored when she sleeps and I guess I can only pray that the slight heart murmur that was found upon her examination will be a silent and painless trip to heaven one of these nights. I hated putting my cat to sleep and don't want to have to ever go their again with any of my pets. I am prepared thought if I have to do it.
I had a great day today with my family. We had a beautiful 60 degree day (very unusual for Nov in MN) and of course had a hike at Whitewater! Rhi elected to stay home and finish her homework and chores so she could spend the night with a friend. Somebody pinch me!The diagnosis for Jez is Idiopathic Geriatric Vestibular Disease. Otherwise known as "she's old and we don't exactly know". She may get better, most dogs do. She may not. It all depends on what the underlying cause is. In the meantime, she is walking around like she is drunk the poor dear.
Our 15 year old poodle is not acting right. I think she might have had a stroke. I took the morning off so I can get her into the vet. I am not ready for this...