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My cancer arm, charting all the ins and outs, red blood cells in my urine, and the last straw, while cleaning my teeth the dentist popped off a crown.
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Since I wrote last, I’ve still been splashing around in pee-world. Remember the three courses of antibiotics it took to clear a UTI? Added to the medications to stave off UTIs, recently the urologist had me measuring my pee and keeping a log of when and how much I peed and when and how much fluid I drank. It’s annoying, but interesting since I would have guessed wrong on every metric.
What is much more annoying is that my last urine test pointed up too many red blood cells, not enough to see with your eyes but enough to warrant a cystoscopy since red blood cells in urine can be an indication of bladder cancer. And when can the urologist do this test? In three weeks. The PA says three weeks out isn’t bad to schedule a procedure, but I just kept calling around and got an appointment at Cedars instead of St John’s for one week out which is a major relief, having the test before I go to Kansas.
I found out about the cystoscopy while I was waiting to see the oncology PA because my ‘cancer arm’, the one with lymph node involvement, has been bothering me. He feels 99.9% sure it’s muscular, from when I tried to get back to exercising with weights, but under the circumstances of me being anxious about it I think, he wants me to get this “93971 (CPT®) – PR DUP-SCAN XTR VEINS UNILATERAL/LIMITED STUDY” and this “71250 (CPT®) – CHG DIAGNOSTIC COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY THORAX W/O CNTRST”, tests I was able to schedule for the 17th.
All this happened yesterday. And then could it be over? No it could not be over. I went to the dentist today and while cleaning my teeth with the pointy tool he popped off a crown. Bam. I’m hypersensitive about getting infections, so I’ll be back to the dentist tomorrow, but a different one because this one didn’t handle the situation very well.
I’m writing this having calmed myself, mostly because why not, nothing to be gained by feeling anxious, say I to me, deep breaths.