We had winds howling last night as I went to bed. Not fun. Major Tom took his turn being sick all over the house this morning at around 3:45 AM. That wasn’t really the way I wanted to start the day. I got out of bed and cleaned everything up. After that, I flopped back into bed. Major Tom and Magdalena have taken to digging up the entire yard. I’m guessing they are after moles and this may be the source of them getting sick all over the house.
Instead of getting to sleep I had another one of those sessions where I was physically asleep but my brain was awake. It wouldn’t settle down but I did eventually get to sleep around 6:00 AM, just to have Sirocco wake me up around 6:45 AM. He needed to go out. Major Tom had made three more messes so I got them cleaned up.
When I let the dogs out a blast of cold air hit me. I checked the weather app and it was 7 deg. F (-14 deg C) out there! What the Hell? I don’t recall it ever getting to that temperature in Houston. Fortunately much of the snow had disappeared so driving wasn’t an issue.
The main event of the morning was my follow-up appointment from last week’s visit to the ER. This was my first visit with a new doctor so I got to fill out all the new patient paperwork. There was a lot of it. I’d gotten part way through it when the nurse came out and called me. The wife and I went into the exam room. The nurse asked me all sorts of questions about my medical history as well as my family’s medical history. I continued on the paperwork as this was going on.
The nurse left and the doctor came in. She’s young and seems to know her stuff. We spent a long time talking about things as she got to know me. I’ve not had a doctor do that in the last three decades. It was quite refreshing. I finally finished the paper work as we were chatting.
We got to the inevitable discussion on drawing blood. I explained why that is a bad idea, as well as why sticking IVs in me is detrimental to other people’s health. One thing she wanted was to check my A1C. It turns out that it ca be tested with a simple finger stick, much like taking my blood sugar. I don’t like it but I can do it. They didn’t have the ability to do it in their office. We pretty much acknowledged that mine is probably high as I’ve been bad about my eating most of this year. I’ll have to do it in three months so I’ll have to start reigning in my eating.
She also discussed having a colonoscopy done. I’ve avoided getting one if for no other reason than they must put a IV in me to sedate me to do the procedure. I told her if I was goig to be out in three seconds or less after sticking the IV in me, and it was out of me before they woke me up, sure, go ahead. She came up with an alternative of doing a Cologuard test instead. I think I can do that.
Ultimately, I got though an appointment with no blood being drawn, and no one being injured as a result. I’ll consider that a success.
I remain fairly indestructible.
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“I had another one of those sessions where I was physically asleep but my brain was awake.”
That’s called dreaming. Lots of people do it. (-;
Yeah, this isn’t dreaming. Or even lucid dreaming. This is being awake while my body is lying there not doing anything.