Return the the Jungle

Welcome to 2015!
We at the Jungle House took a bit of a hiatus for a couple years but we are back!

I am starting this up again to keep my spirits up and keep a log of all the things that have been happening now that I am going back to Dr. Kopher.

I called in mid December to make an appointment for January. The very nice lady at the appointment center informed me that I was just in time since Dr. Kopher is not taking any 'new' patients and is retiring in the spring. 'Great,' I thought, I'll get in to see him at the beginning of the year and we will start fresh. She says, 'he just had a spot open up on Tuesday. Are you available on the 23rd?'
Well, I guess we are starting earlier than we thought.

The appointment with Kopher went well, everything seemed to be right where we left off. Great news, right? We had labs drawn and everything came back good. So he put me on meds to start the regulation process and told me to come back for an ultrasound on 1/13.

Jumping to 1/12, I still have not been 'regulated' so I had to cancel my appointment. Sure enough, I cancel it and then my body cooperates 5 hours later. Figures...

20 emails with the clinic staff later and another week of waiting, I was able to make an appointment for 1/20. Of course, this appointment is not available at a clinic near me, I even tried to get them to do it at the hospital facilities before I went to work, but that was a no go. (I should say that I've been working like a dog for the last 3 weeks and driving myself crazy trying prepare to go on a little vacay to Vegas with Mark this week. I'm really looking forward to it as I realized today that it is the first time he and I have gone on a trip where we haven't been staying with family or been with friends for a wedding. This will be a lot of fun. I can't wait!) So, I had to schedule an appointment for the 0740 slot at the Riverside Clinic... for those of you that don't know, Riverside is in Minneapolis and I live in St. Paul. Not over all a big deal except that I am by habit an evening shifter and don't usually fall asleep until 0330 or so. Getting up for the appointment was difficult to say the least, and then I had to leave extra early to fight traffic all the way there.... Grrrrr #2.

Enough whining for now. The ultrasound tech I was working with today, Amy, was AMAZING! She was so sweet and kept asking if I needed anything or could make me more comfortable in any way. This was a complete 180 from the last time I had to go through this process. Even though she knew I had had the procedures done in the past she made sure to explain them to me in detail and kept informing me that the Dr that would be reading the ultrasounds didn't usually arrive to work until 0800 but that she would page out to the nurses station when we were done to see if she was there. She was not, but when Amy was done with the exams she told me she was going to go out and wait for her and bring her in as soon as she got there. That she did. I couldn't have been in the room for more than a couple minutes before they both came in to review the images with me. It was such a nice experience. I might just have to go back to the Riverside Clinic for all my ultrasounds in the future despite traffic and everything else.

Ok, maybe one more whine... in the middle of all the emails with the clinic, I asked if I would have results back and a message from Dr Kopher about what steps we were going to take next by the end of the day today, I received a yes response but did not end up getting a message one way or the other. This is frustrating me since I leave for vacation in 36 hours and would like to have time to pick up my meds if I need to before I go.

Alright, that's it. I think...