Quick Update
After my pancreas biopsy, I had to call the office because no one called me about results, despite the results being in my MyChart records for a good four days. I didn't want to read them as the results always have medical jargon I don't understand and then I panic thinking something terrible is wrong. After two phone calls and talking to the nurse practitioner, as the doctor never bothered to call back, they told me the cyst sample was sent to a company that closed down and therefore no results could be gathered. I said can you send it to another company? He replied 'this is the only company that analyzes cyst fluid'. I don't know if this could possibly be true, but basically the procedure was for nothing and we know nothing about the cyst in my pancreas. The plan is to keep monitoring it via MRIs. I really wasn't pleased with this but there's nothing I can really do.
We left off with my ankle being fractured. I had to stay in the boot for about 7 weeks. After that the boot came off but my ankle still wasn't 100%. It's doing better now, it's almost healed all the way. I still have very little energy and I did attempt walking at the park twice, but i did need to sit on several benches for a .75 trail. It's also been so hot it's hard to walk.
I also left off on Aranesp shots. So I did the shots once a week for a month and my hemoglobin did not improve. So now my doctor prescribed a higher dose of the medicine. We'll see if that works at all.
When I got my right eyelid biopsied last, I also had the left eyelid biopsied. That came back as a precancer with squamous cell not being able to be ruled out due to the small sample size. The MOHS surgeon didn't want to do anything about the left eyelid. I've been noticing a few different areas on my eyelid that have tiny scabs that form. They eventually fall off and they do not bleed but I know they are the beginnings of cancer. So I went to the MOHS surgeon yesterday to see what he thought; my intention was to get biopsies done. The surgeon didn't really want to do biopsies. He instead froze the eyelid. I had this done before at a different doctors office and it was so light it did nothing. This time it hurt really bad, but no where near the pain of lidocaine injected into the eyelid. It felt like my eye also had brain freeze. It took a little while for it to calm down. Here's to hoping that means it will do something. My eyelid is still swollen today. He said that I should come back in 6 weeks and if it's better, good, if not he'll do a biopsy. I was a little worried he'd want to do surgery and I have two vacations planned in August and I worried that surgery ad healing would interfere with them. So I'm glad that won't happen. This time around I'm trying to nip this in the bud and be as vocal as possible because the last eyelid situation was torture.
I started an antidepressant a week or two ago. I'm hoping it will help give me more motivation. I haven't been feeling a bit apathetic. I haven't really felt the same since I started and antipsychotic several years back. I'm going to stay with my sister for a week at her house, so that should be fun.
