Wednesday, 24 August 2011

And so it begins...

All the tests and investigations have started. After having my day 2 hormones blood test last week, this week it was time for my oh so lovely internal ultrasound scan to check my ovaries for cysts and my uterus for fibroids and other nasties.

I was soooo nervous about it, silly really after having 3 kids and countless nasty, undignified smear tests.
I sat in the seriously packed ultrasound waiting room trying not to get myself any more worked up, dread to think what I will be like when ot comes to the big dye xray!!!
I was so all over the place it wasn't until I got home that I even realised the rude woman from the xray department last week was actually working on the reception of the ultrasound department!!!

Anyway, when my name was called I followed a very nice nurse into the changing booth, I must have looked scared because she put her hand on my shoulder and said "It really won't be that bad"
So dressed in my oh so sexy hospital gown I shuffled into the scan room and came face to face with one of the mums from my son's old primary school!!!
Lol she was lovely and said I could have someone else do the scan, but I just thought "Sod it, if I have to wait again I will be a total wreck!" so I said it was fine and in fact it was better as she was really chatty with me and with that and the fact it was so funny and surreal having an internal scan done by someone I knew it did take my mind off what was happening.

So much so I almost forgot to ask whether everything looked ok!
She said the ovaries looked normal and had no cysts and that the uterus did not have anything it shouldn't have in it (Unfortunately still doesn't have what it SHOULD have in  it either though)
She asked whether they have checked hormones and told me a bit about the scary HSG xray and that was that!

I guess it is a good thing, well of course it is a good thing they did not find any cysts etc, but I can't help feeling a bit lost as I am still left without an answer to why this is not working anymore.
I just really want to get my last and most dreaded test over with so I can find out what our next step is, if there is one.

I got what I think was meant to be a reply from the patient liason people, it just went on about how sometimes when consultants are away there is no one to cover for them and how ill patients get prioritised over these tests????
Apart from not making any real sense, they also managed to ignore/not read the part where I told them how rude and unhelpful their receptionist was to me.

I just hope next month is different

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