Well, turns out, it was all a bunch of bullshit.


From the papers I had received, and everything my sister had been told, I was convinced I was to go in for surgery on my gallbladder at 9:30AM on the 25th. So she gave me my requested wake-up call at 8, (even though I was already up, and had been for hours) and I was ready to leave at 8:45.
But, when she came down, she had some strange and rather vexing news: This was NOT an appointment for surgery, but merely an appointment for me to meet with the doctor who would be performing it to schedule a TIME for the surgery. That was what she was told over the phone that morning, but even that turned out to be bullshit, we would eventually find out. Needless to say, I was pissed, on one level, albeit somewhat relieved, on another level.
But, when I got there, and the guy finally came in to talk to me, I realized it was another kind of deal altogether. He had the gall (no pun intended) to ask me why I thought I needed gallbladder surgery in the first place. I was quite pissed by this point, so I told him: "You tell me!" "You're the fucking doctor!!!" So he asked me what my symptoms were, and I told him. He asked whether I had had lots of puking or diarrhea, and I said, "No, no puking, and no more diarrhea than usual." Then he poked and prodded me with his hands on both sides, and, even though I told him it hurt every time, he swore up and down that I didn't have the right symptoms, and that gallbladder surgery would do me no good, and could be endangering my life, unnecessarily. Well, that did it. I told him: "Well, you're the doctor, and I guess you know your business, but you need to tell that DUMBASS, Lenoir, that HE doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about, because his exact words to my sister were: 'Oh, yeah, those gallstones have got to come out.'" He looked quite shocked when I said that, so I reiterated: "That Lenoir is just a plumb FOOL, anyway you slice it."
So, there you had it. It was just a difference of opinion. Dumbass Lenoir thought I needed the surgery, but the actual surgeon didn't. Said that people had gallstones for years and years without having to have surgery, and that, unless, it was making me miserable, and I couldn't stand NOT to have it out, it was better to just leave it in. And I was inclined to take the word of the actual surgeon over some dipshit general practitioner, who had proven his incompetence, time and time again, at my expense.


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I guess I should go back to the beginning, and explain how I got to this point. All my symptoms from last year pretty much continued, plus a few new ones, that really scared the shit out of me. I was having pains in my chest, heart palpitations, more trouble breathing than usual, and was coughing up this crud of a dry, gluey consistency. When I went to Lenoir, in March, and told him the symptoms, he said it was pleurisy, and prescribed something for it. It seemed to work, for awhile, and, when I researched the symptoms, I couldn't help but agree with him....that time. ;-(
But my stomach and lower back pain just kept getting worse and worse, so, back in June, I got my sister to set me up for an appointment so I could get a referral for another x-ray. As it turned out, Lenoir wasn't available that week, but a female doctor named Ann Carter was, so I saw her instead. She seemed to actually know what she was talking about, and to give a shit, to boot. I tried to get her changed to my primary care doctor, but, unfortunately, she's not taking patients right now.
At any rate, I had the second x-ray done on the 18th, and this one showed that, along with the scoliosis and arthritis, I also had sciatica, a mild convex curvature of the spine, and a possible bone spur in my lower-spine/hip area. Dr. Carter called me later and told me that there were some other things, too, that she had seen that kinda worried her, so she scheduled me for an ultrasound on July 1st.
Now I don't mind telling you that that little x-ray was a pure, 24-karat, copper-platted BEE-YOTCH!!!

They poked and prodded me til I felt like I was gonna pass out, and I had so many muscle spasms driving back home, it's a miracle I didn't fucking wreck.
They said my test results would be posted online the next day. They lied. They weren't there the NEXT day, either, or any day that week. The typically lazy-ass ZOGling PUSSIES had simply taken advantage of the Fourth Of Jew-Lie weekend to fuck off for the whole week, and do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, while, undoubtedly, still getting paid. Typical. ;-(When I finally got the results THROUGH THE MAIL the next week, here's what they said:
EXAM: ULTRASOUND ABDOMEN COMPLETE
INDICATION: Abdominal pain (No shit, Sherlock!!! ;-( )
COMPARISON: Ultrasound gallbladder January 13, 2011
FINDINGS: There is no evidence of abdominal aortic aneurysm. The visualized portion of the inferior vena cava is unremarkable.
Liver is large, dense, and fatty measuring 23.3 x 22.8 x 20.6cm. Common bile duct measures 0.7cm, which is upper limits of normal. There are suspected gallstones, with no wall thickening and negative sonographic Murphy's sign.
The pancreas is suboptimally visualized.
Kidneys are poorly visualized with no hydronephrosis. Right kidney measures 12.6 x 7.8 x 5.6cm. Left kidney measures 11.9-6.8 x 6.4cm.
The spleen is large measuring 16.2 x 11.5 x 7.9cm.
The patient reported no pain during the exam. (Lying motherfuckers!!! :-( It hurt like hell, and I said so!!!) There is no ascites.
IMPRESSION: Difficult exam.
Large dense liver with suspected gallstones and borderline common bile duct size.
Suboptimal visualization of the pancreas and kidneys.
Splenomegaly.
Along the bottom, Dr. Carter had scrawled: "Inflammation test may be done to your gallbladder." "Make appt. back in."
That, I suppose, is why Lenoir said what he said. At any rate, no inflammation test was done, and, from the impression I got from the surgeon, it wasn't really needed.
On later pages, she had also scrawled: "OK-blood count", "Sugar up-recheck", "Inflammation-testup", "Cholesterol up-needs (a downward-pointed arrow, to indicate "lowering"), "Thyroid-OK", "Testosterone-OK".
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So, that's how I got to this point.
I got the surgeon, Dr. Graves, to go ahead and set me up another appointment with the gastroenterologist, Dr. Orton, who I saw twice, back in 2017, to try to get his opinion of what's causing my symptoms, and, hopefully, get a couple more x-rays done. (Upper and lower G.I. at the very least.) Then we'll take it from there. Hopefully, if there is any cancer, we'll be able to track it down before it becomes untreatable, or, if it's something else that needs to come out, they can go ahead and remove it, and I can go from there.
I also need to try to get an appointment with an ear, nose, and throat doctor, ASAP, because these sinuses are fucking killing me. :-(

That's the first time I was ever prescribed something that they actually admitted might make me go stone blind. 



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