Last Friday I went up to Tripler for a PET/CT scan. The doc wanted a good view of my lungs. I’d had one done in June after my COPD hospitalization in May, and he wanted to check something he’d seen there. I went back today for a follow-up, and whatever it was has gone away …
I’m pretty much recovered. Say I’m about 85% back to normal. I’m using the same four-times-a-day inhaler I was using before I went into the hospital plus two others twice a day, but I’ve not used any oxygen since last Saturday, and that was just for a few minutes. I get winded after a little …
I smoked from the age of 17 until the age of 61, and I didn’t go lightly on the number of cigarettes per day for many of those 44 years. They gave me two cancerous tumors within 6 months of one another in 2012. Both were removed and there’s been no recurrence. The other thing …
Back in May I noted that it had been just short of five years since my first oral surgery in 2012. On Wednesday, November 1, it was 19 days short of five years since the second oral surgery. I’d had a sharp pain in my mouth in mid-October and called to make an appointment with …
For the past two or three months I’ve had upper-arm or shoulder pain in my left arm, and I finally got around to making an appointment to see my doctor about it. All praise to the VA; I called and was transferred to the advice nurse when the original scheduler heard my problem. He said …
I had what the ENT doctors are referring to as my next-to-last checkup with them today. They cut out my uvula on July 11, 2012, and I’ve been back to them regularly since then. At first it was bi-monthly, then quarterly, and most recently bi-annually. First they do an exam with tongue depressors and a …
If you need a new one of these things because the old one doesn’t fit your new glasses, but you didn’t buy the old one, what term would you use to search for it? I tried about four different phrases before I came up with an image sufficiently like it that I could get the …
Please pass this article along to any vets you know. It’s infuriating that the privatizers in the Republican party and its supporters (Spit! Kochs!) want to undermine one of the best health systems in this country and they want to do so in the name of their putrid ideology. They may try to dress up …
Yep, I am. I had my semi-annual trip to the periodontist today where I had another Sodium Fluoride treatment. The hygienist cleans your teeth (not as thoroughly as my regular dentist’s hygienist does, but still pretty well), dries them off, and starts painting this stuff on. It dries quickly, and when it does it looks …
I had my third colonoscopy in 9 years today, and the polyp score is 5, 0, 1. That’s five the first time (all benign), none the second time, and one (awaiting biopsy results) the third time. That damned electrolyte mix is the worst part of the whole deal. I was anesthetized and out in two …