School, mostly

I guess I havent posted in a long time. It definitely wasnt purposeful. School has been keeping me very busy. In the last two weeks I have had 6 tests! We had a take home patient care test due the same day we had a physics test and film screen test. Then that Wednesday we had a film screen lab test. This week we had our positioning and procedures lecture test and then today the lab test. CRAZY! I got a 96% on my patient care and film screen, then an 82% on my physics, but the physics and film screen lecture tests get averaged, so thats an 89%. Then on my positioning and procedures lecture I got a 95%, no word on the test we took today but I know I made one small mistake but it wasnt worth a lot of points so I pulled either a high B or a low A. Either way with the lecture test and the quiz grades I have an A in pos. and proc. and a B in physics film screen, patient care an A. As long as I get B's in all my classes I will be happy, I dont want to have any C's on my record for this program. I have just set my goals that way and thats how I feel about it. So, as you may be able to guess from this post school and studying has been very consuming, and honestly its only going to get worse. We start our clinicals on the 12th of October, which is very close!! Once we are in clinicals we have class Monday 8-3 or 4 and Wednesday 1-3 or 4 then Ill be in the hospital Tuesday and Thursday from 730-2! Talk about busy and no free time! I dont know if I will even be able to work the three days I work now then! I guess Ill find out real quick.
On the note of work, the weather has finally changed to fall and its super nice but work is still EXTREMELY slow. I am making like no money at all and its almost not worth it. If it wasnt for the fact that I dont want to be so dependant on JoJo I would just quit. I mean I am working Saturdays from 1030 am to 9 or 10 pm and only making like $80-$100. Thats totally not cool and unacceptable. I really wish we would pick up some because the money I have has been depleting faster than I expected. But at this point there is nothing that I can do about anything. Just keep on pushing on. Plus a couple people at work or someone in particular (I havent figured out who) is trying to get things started. Some people were talking last week about how I was talking crap about Maci, Davids gf (Chase's brothers gf), they took two sentences and twisted them all crazy into something they werent and Maci was really hurt and I had to explain that things hadnt happened the way they were making it seem it was super stupid. Then the next day someone told Alexis, the bartender who I have know since I worked at Bravo, that I was bitching about her, and I wasnt literally I walked up to the bar and didnt see her and went, "wheres Alexis?" and someone turned this into me saying "where is Alexis? Shes never here this isnt the first time I came up here tonight and she was gone." WTF. People are petty. I find this so irritating but its not worth it for me to ask who it is because I dont feel like stooping to their level and starting a bigger issue. But this makes me want to work there even less obviously.
Things with Chase have been great. Nothing too exciting or unexciting to update about us. Clyde is doing just fine, he's adjusted to me and dad really well. The worst thing is fighting with him to stay out of the trash he really like used kleenex, qtips and paper, whatever, slowly Ill break him of it, at least he doesnt like gross things, I mean a kleenex is a little gross but there are MUCH worse things. That's all for now I suppose.

Verdict is...

Well, its not a 100% but the verdict is no surgery, just a stomach scope. Doctor says the HIDA Scan shows that my gallbladder is operating at 95% which apparently above average. He says that since I do have polyps one day my gallbladder may go down the drain but that wont be today or really anytime in the near future so thats excellent news. Although, now we are back to square one, what is really wrong with my stomach? So, on October 6th I will have a stomach scope, yes its as bad as it sounds but they will put me to sleep. It only takes 15-30 minutes, they use a camera to check out my stomach and the beginning of my small intestine and take a couple of biopsies while they are in there. He said the worst part will be the drink I have to have to numb my throat, apparently it tastes horrible. Although I believe the worst part will be the IV. When I went to get the HIDA Scan the entire thing was a disaster. The radiology department and the hospital had my appointment at 830 but the nuclear medicine department that actually administers the test had me at 930. So, after waiting until 9 I asked and got taken back, but then the girl couldnt get an IV in my right arm, she stuck me once and it was EXTREMELY painful, and she realized I had a valve right there. So, out that one came then she tried a second vein twice and that one wouldnt return the blood, so she had to stop and wait for someone else to come start my IV. Like 20 minutes later some guy came and got it going in my other arm but I had to keep my arm completely straight the entire time and it still stung like hell. The stupid scan took an hour and a half from there. All in all we were at the hospital from like 750 until 1230 blah. Hopefully, this stomach scope will give me a final diagnosis on whats really wrong with my stomach and then I can get on the right track with medicine or treatments or whatever is needed. I wish that I could have the scope sooner but its the closest date that they have available. Oh well, just one day at a time and Ill get it under control soon enough. Although, it does suck that one of my veins is still bruised from the inability to get an IV started in my crappy veins.

Dog and Surgery Updates

Good news and other news. The good news is I got a dog. He is a beagle and I named him Clyde. He is super cute and very good so far. He like to chew a little but he hasnt destroyed anything yet. I am just keeping a close eye on him to keep him from getting into any trouble. How I got him is sort of interesting. My friend Chris' mom has a friend who randomly acquired him and couldnt keep him. She said he just waltzed in the front door of the Y the other day looking not so hot and they were going to send him to the pound, so she took him home. She has two other dogs and no space, time or money for another so I told her I would take him to keep him from going to the pound. He is house broken so that is good. The only thing is keeping an eye on the trying to chew things.
As for other news, its not bad and its not good I suppose. The surgeon said he wanted me to have the HIDA Scan before he said for 100% that I was going to need/have the surgery. So, in the morning I am going for that and by Friday I will know what the deal is. We did go ahead and schedule the surgery, because he stays very busy and we needed to secure the closest date possible as soon as possible. So, if I have surgery if will be Oct. 4, unless a closer date comes available through cancellation and then Ill jump on that. The HIDA Scan is where I drink some medical liquid fat and they see what it does to my gallbladder and how it reacts. If I have an under active gallbladder then surgery is on. If it functions at even 80% then I have to start having multiple other tests done to figure out what sort of digestive issue I actually have. Which I really dont want to do. I am not very excited about the idea of surgery but I am less excited about tons of testing. Ill keep updating as I know more.

Short

No dog for me. The lady who found him decided to keep him, now thats shes had him a week she has bonded with him. So, that sucks, but I suppose it wasnt meant to be and things will work out when they should.
Also, I have nothing to do for the next like week. No, school and they only thing on my prospect list is going to the doctor, possibly like 10 times to get this possible surgery situation underway. Oh, well I do have like one lectures worth of index cards to do, but that wont take two hours. On Wednesday people in my class are having a study group but I dont know if I will be able to go because I may have to go to some doctors appointment. I hate that I wont know what the heck is going on until Tuesday.
Chase may go to Alabama for the stupid football game next weekend, that is if I dont have the surgery next Friday or Saturday. Even if I dont have the surgery until after that I dont want him to go. My weekend will super blow and be really boring. Plus Ill miss him bunches and bunches. But I know he wants to go and get out of work if he can. I guess we will just see what happens.

Dog Possibilites

I may be getting a new dog. My aunt works with a lady who found a dog wandering around McNeely lake last weekend. He is a young Australian Shepherd and he is deaf. She put an ad in the paper but hasnt gotten any response. The lady cant keep him because she already has dog and he is not especially fond of this new dog being around. I told her if no one calls to get him then I will take him. She said if she doesnt hear anything by Sunday then he is mine. He is deaf so thats an issue, but she said he is very nice and calm and quiet. We arent 100% on if he is house trained but she says he is cage trained, so I am hoping that means he is house trained as well. I suppose I am going to have to call PetSmart or somewhere and see if they have special training for deaf dogs. Oh, the lady also says he walks on a leash just fine he just doesnt like to be near the road. I am very excited about being able to help this dog. My one question I cant figure out is what do you name a deaf dog?

Surgery impending

I have been having stomach problems again. They came back slowly and I just assumed it was my acid reflux that bothered me so bad as a kid coming back. I tried my old over the counter methods and as they began to fail miserably I decided to make a doctors appointment. Well, my doctor is out on emergency family leave and her covering doctor couldnt see me this week. So, I just made an appointment for next Tuesday. The pain was just too intense and lasting and Chase convinced me I shouldnt wait until next week. He said he would go with me to the immediate care and I agreed to go. When I got there I explained to this doctor my old problems as a kid and my problems now and he immediately said, sounds like gallbladder disease. He then went into a long explanation about why he thought this, and was unfortunately very convincing. They then scheduled me for an ultrasound the next day, which was this morning. I went and the lady was like, "Yes I can see the gallstones, see them?" And I could a lot of them. That meant it was a positive test and my gallbladder has failed me and has to be removed. The good thing about this is normally with someone my age the ultrasound is negative and you have to have a nuclear medicine scan. But I dont have to have that since its blatantly obvious I have gallstones. At this point I dont know anything further. I am hoping we can get this surgery on the go and I can have it next week since I dont have school all week. If I did have to have it during my school time they wouldnt count it against me or take my days I am allowed to miss away because of it, but I really dont want to miss the lectures and get behind in that way. Especially at the beginning of school like this. Well, I am going to go to the store and buy some fresh fruit to eat, since anything with fat in it may potentially make me feel like complete shit. More updates as I know what the heck is going on.