i hate doctors offices. vent.

[Sparx]

jeepers.
i go in, and its deeply crowded. we wait for like, half an hour.

for anyone who's curious as to why i'm in the doctors office, about three weeks ago, i notice a cyst on my right wrist. okay. thats weird. and it starts to get really uncomfortable and growing. i go to my regular doctor. she says its a ganglion cyst and it can be removed, but she can't do it. she refers me to have bloodwork done, and to a surgeon. i go get poked with a needle, and two weeks later (today) i'm in the surgeons office.

so i get called back there. this nurse comes in and starts talking to us, and she pulls this horse needle out of the cabinate, and starts filling it with what had to be pints and pints of a curious clear liquid. the more medication that goes into that needle, the more i blanch out. this needle could've went through my arm and came out the other side. and i was just positive she was gonna poke me with it. then she turns around and walks out of the room into the room across the hall. i breathe a sigh of relief and start praying that she doesn't come back.

then the surgeon comes in. he takes one look at my hand and says that its huge for someone my age and i've had it for years. what? yeah. weird. so he starts feeling my other wrist. i don't have one there, which is good.

he then proceeds to tell me that the cyst is sitting on top of the most important artery, not vein, artery, in my arm. so he can't do this surgery in his office. he told me that we're scheduling for thursday and it has to be at the hospital. they're knocking me like all the way out and everything.

oh, and even though i had bloodwork done a week or so ago, i have to have it done again. cause they can't transfer the tests.

it just seems like a big to-do over a marble sized cyst.
and i just want this to be over with. my wrist is always uncomfortable, but if i use it, it begins to hurt.

oh, and the best part, i get to be splinted for two weeks. yay.

thanks for letting me vent.

 

[PosessedEeyore]

oooooooooooooouuuuuuuh! i hate doctors offices. they always smell like sick people and the smell u smell when u first open a pack of bandaides.

 

[wilmabride'sdaughter]

Thats sounds awfuly long winded. What a carry on. My mum has one of those but she has it on the bottom of her thumb where it joins to her hand. The doctors told her they cant remove it because its near a tendon or something like that.

I hope everything goes ok!!!

 

[Sparx]

Thats sounds awfuly long winded. What a carry on. My mum has one of those but she has it on the bottom of her thumb where it joins to her hand. The doctors told her they cant remove it because its near a tendon or something like that.

I hope everything goes ok!!!

if they can remove mine from the top of the most important artery in my arm, they can probably pull hers off a tendon. if its uncomfortable, i suggest she go see a different doctor. some doctors don't wanna do that kind of stuff, but if it bothers her, she should get it removed.

 

[imabrat]

Shelby, it'll be okay. Trust me, get the general anesthesia, sometimes local wears off. I know it did all 3 times I had my chest port done. (Which was connected to the jugular, lotsa blood)

Needles are fine. Have someone squeeze your hand tightly, the brain can only focus on one pain source at a time.
Inhale deeply, and exhale as the needle goes it.
And it's not a big to do. My tumour 2x3 inches. Just to take that sucker out, 2 bones were replaced!

Focus on breathing, that's the most important part.

 

[Sparx]

Shelby, it'll be okay. Trust me, get the general anesthesia, sometimes local wears off. I know it did all 3 times I had my chest port done. (Which was connected to the jugular, lotsa blood)

Needles are fine. Have someone squeeze your hand tightly, the brain can only focus on one pain source at a time.
Inhale deeply, and exhale as the needle goes it.
And it's not a big to do. My tumour 2x3 inches. Just to take that sucker out, 2 bones were replaced!

Focus on breathing, that's the most important part.

thanks sonya. i'm not nervous about the surgery or the needles really, i'm just frustrated that its taking like a month to get this tiny little thing taken out of my wrist.

and i think they're doing general, but when i was a little kid, i had a big problem coming out from under it. so i dunno.

 

[AwesomeAsha]

aw man.
i feel ya.

a couple weeks ago, i noticed a bump on my forearm. went to the doctors so they could check it out. she didn't know what it was. she told me okay, we're going to do an ultra-sound on it. and then she changed her mind to a CAT scan. and then she changed her mind again! to an MRI. it's just ridiculous. but i got my blood work done and then a couple days later had my mri and in the end it was 'nothing'.

but! i hope everything goes okay and you finally get that cyst removed.