as I saw not one 2nd opinion doctor this week but 2!  Boy! am I glad i did that because it turns out I probably wont need a hysterectomy at all.  Went to  the 1st doctor on Wednesday, told him my story about the D&C not actually happening because my doctor couldn’t get pass the cervix.  So he had a look and said should be able to do a guided D&C (using a sonogram) no problem, could  clearly see my cervix.  Also said despite the thicken endometrial lining he really didn’t think I was a candidate for anything serious like cancer. Whew! that was a relief.

Yesterday was Doctor No2.   First thing she said was “Dr C has terrible handwriting!”   Anyway related my story, cervix not opening, probably due to ablation done in 2004, blah blah.   She was puzzled “why couldn’t she get pass the cervix, it says here that she has done 2 endometrial biopsies in the recent past, which means she got pass the cervix at that time? Also you have recently had bleeding ( hence the need for D&C)  so your cervix was open then!’  Basically she dished my Doctor.   Next she said ” it (the uterus) has to be sampled, if it can’t be sampled it has to come out”  but she was pretty confident that she could do an inoffice endometrial biopsy right then.  And she was right!  No only that, she was so quick it was literally like a long pinch as she promised.  When she finished  she was almost jumping for joy like a football player who had just scored the winning touchdown! She was so refreshingly down to earth and natural.  So now I have to wait for the results but like the doctor on Wednesday, she felt that I had a very low risk of anything adverse being found and if  it was anything, could probably be controlled by hormones.  I am so relieved and last night I was so happy.

Then this morning,  I had to go to work.  Yeah, a lot of people say that, you are still working for Joann’s?  Yep, I am sometimes, not often and usually only for 4-5 hours every other week.   I walk in and see a pile of freight for me to unload.  Boy! was I pissed off!  To be honest, I had been using the hysterectomy as an excuse for giving my notice in but now suddenly that option has been taken away from me (yes, I am that confident).   I hate letting people down and I know that Nev is facing the prospect of losing her 2 assistants ( Georgia is being promoted to full-time management in another part of the store). However, Georgia has made no secret of the fact she didn’t plan on staying in the frame shop if the opportunity came up for a management position and given the turnover in that place, it was just a matter of time.  Me, I am just fed up with the last resort person who fills in for 4 hours here or there.  So I am going to give in my notice but now it wont have the excuse of a hysterectomy with it (which is a relief, a real plus )

Other than work, I was pretty down on Wednesday, despite the good news from the Doctor because as I soon as I got on the Internet, my sister’s almost daughter- in- law was telling me,  Julie had been taken into hospital with chest pains, probable heart attack     As it turns out it wasn’t a heart attack but angina which is pretty serious in itself. Poor Julie, really drew the short straw in the health genes amongst the sisters.  Really bad eczema and asthma  when she was a kid which led to lengthy stays in hospital all her childhood.  It was also the time of experimenting with new medications for asthma, amongst them steroids.   She was about 14 at the time and a very skinny kid when they first put her on steroids.  Within 6 months she had double in size and her asthma was worse.   I don’t think her body has recovered since. Of course she is like all of us, like her food but she doesn’t really drink much  or smoke. The root cause of her problems were the experimental drugs they gave her as a teenager as she has never been the skinny Julie of our childhood again. Fingers crossed that they can control the angina