Yesterday

Today is a hectic day. Celebrations are going on. Plus girlfriend is not feeling well. Took her to doctor. . Now i m in office.

Today I went to the doctor.
She said my 'swollen feet' could be several things.
Blood-sample and 'fill-the-bottle' games.
Maybe kidney something-or-other.
She gave me a prescription for "water-pills", which I'll fill tomorrow.
Sounds like a placebo to me and I anticipate differences from taking the "solid-pills".

Last week, I went to a different doctor.
He's a "Vascular Surgeon", the guy who put in a stent to fix my Abdominal Arterial Aneurysm problem back in Nov. '01.
After having a CAT-scan done, he told me earlier that 'all was well'.
When I asked him about the swollen feet, he told me to see a doctor.

Then he had me come back last week to say 'all may not be well'.
I thought he needed me there to help pay his country-club dues or his Mercedes mortgage.

His read-out was that the Top of the stent is riding lower than normal.
The real artery, where the stent should-be, but isn't, is just below the kidney arteries junction.
And, is 'widening', which is not a good thing and is somewhat undesirable.
Best solution being a very short 'stent', like a collar, to encapsulate that.
Meaning another operation.
Maybe his progeny is entering Harvard or Yale and this op will be the first payment - who knows...
Anyway, I have another appt. Sept. 28th, so we can "schedule the hospital", like we can't do that over the phone...

Fortunately, one of the few good things in my life is that the "Denver Freebie Event" is on Sept 24th.
4 days to install, become legal, then go "scheduling the hospital".

Tomorrow I have to pick up the "water-pills".

Life is good. I don't have to put up with a lot of crap like so many others do.
But, I don't 'piss and moan' about it -- C'est la vie...

Hello Chuck, I hope you success and courage with all you face; here's a link to "water pills" if you haven't looked it up yet; keep looking up mate.

Im sorry to hear that Chuck, I know how you feel though.. Good Luck my friend, Ill say a prayer!

Tom

All the best from Germany, Chuck!

Kari

1pm. time to get off my butt, and get the lawn mowed.
(anyone see a similarity between this thread and that twitter thing?)

tweet.

Take care Chuck. My prayers for you.

holo88 said:

1pm. time to get off my butt, and get the lawn mowed.
(anyone see a similarity between this thread and that twitter thing?)

tweet.

We don't need no stinkin' twitter.

Thanks guys, for your concerns.

I appreciate that.

Chuck