Re: hi
From: Penelope (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri Dec 31 10:21:58 1999
(((HUGS)))to you Jenn. I hope you feel better soon. Wishing you a happy and
feel good day..
Love, Penny
>----- Original Message -----
From: Jenn <anonymous@obgyn.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list ENDO <anonymous@obgyn.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 10:25 PM
Subject: hi
> Hi guys! I just want to say that I will get through all the mail soon but
I
> just wanted to send out another post to you all tonight. I know that I
have
> been venting and complaining an awful lot lately and I do apologize for
that
> b/c I never do that and I feel bad. But as you know i had updated you
about
> the conversation with the MA at the gyn office. well it is a very long
story
> but to make it very very short the cramps hit me again today. finally
after
> calling 3 times today the MA called me back. they were double booked etc
and
> i know they were busy and she said that i am not a pain and i call when i
> need them and am not calling to be a pain. well it is hard to be upset
with
> someone after she says stuff like that to make me feel better. she told me
> to take the lortabs and she would call the Er to tell them i was coming if
i
> wanted to but i wanted to try the meds tonight. i just was confused why
she
> said the other day that i would be seen that day if i needed to and to
call
> her if i had the pain again. well of course it happened today and i did
not
> expect it. so she knew i was frustrated and all and to make this as simple
> as i can I am going in to see Dr. G at 11 on monday. she said that I can
> talk to him and then he will tell me if i am to keep taking the meds or
not.
> i told her that last year he said it was not an option after the surgery
but
> i don't know if he was being positive about the pain not coming back etc
or
> if he was serious. not sure and she didn't know either but she told me to
> take and she would let the on call dr know that i might need more. doubt
it
> though. i have 5 and just took one a while ago. i hope that is enough. i
am
> sure it will be....i will let you know what he says on monday. also kathy
> said that we know surgery won't take care of it and she said that i know
> that anyway. yup i do. and i do not want surgery either.
>
> I do have a ? for you though. okay dr. g treated me for endo in 94 and it
> was not showing up on laps until 1998. then it was confirmed but he knew
> that had to be it. well he ordered an MRI in 98 to rule out adenomyosis
and
> supposedly they said i dind't have it. the pain is only in my uterus now.
> the left ovary is gone and it used to be only the left side and the
uterus.
> now it is just the uterus. i do not want it out and he won't do that to me
> b/c i am so young and he knows i want a baby someday. but i wonder if i
> really do have adeno. i thought about mentioning it to him but i don't
want
> him thinking i am coming up with ideas or anything. i just really am
scared
> that things will go back to the way it used to be...this past summer i
went
> to the beach, i went to the gym for 5 months in row and did weight
training
> and kickboxing and step aerobics also for a while. i never could do that
> before. i felt great until recently (with one or two episodes this summer
> that didn't last long). i am frustrated and scared guys. i hate to get
> emotional and crying too but i am more emotional again.....don't
understand
> it all. dr. g is the awesomest. kathy asked when i had a f/u appointment
or
> a physical. i had a physical in feb last year but when i talked with him
in
> october he said make it for 6 months so that is april and i told her that
i
> hadn't seen him specifically for this for months. we just talked about it
> and went on continuous in october. so she thinks he needs to evaluate it
> even if the pain is gone on monday. different then what she said on
tuesday.
> she is really awesome though and it is so hard to be upset at them for not
> getting back to me etc. if someone appologizes to me for being a pain and
i
> don't think they are i tell them i am there to help them and they are not
> bothering me. when i told the girls today i wasn't trying to be a pain to
> them and all but i am doing just what kathy said and if i were to be seen
i
> had to know by 4 b/c someone had to cover me b/c i had to cover the
> switchboard b/c the girl went home sick. so someone had to do the phones.
> like minutes later kathy called me and i told her what was going on. i
hope
> she really meant it when she said that i wasn't a pain and that they
should
> never be too busy for me....the girls told me they were double booked etc
> and kathy said that doesn't matter and i wanted to say that it does b/c no
> one called me. i called at like 9:30 this morning. then again at 1:30 and
> then finally at 3:30 or so and then at like 3:50 she called me back b/c
they
> kept paging her. if she was with a patient she couldnt' hear the page.
okay
> i understand that b/c that happens in our office too. can't always hear
the
> page if we are in certain rooms. so who knows.
>
> i do feel better now with the lortab....thanks for listening to me once
again.
>
> have a happy and safe new years!
>
> Jenn
>
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