My DH has been driving me crazy lately. He's been going to sleep right after dinner, sleeping solidly until I go to bed and then is restless the remainder of the night while waking me up every hour or so to tell me to stop snoring... like I could stop breathing. Then, he's ready to get up between 3:30 and 4:30 to ride the stationary bike for an hour, take a shower and get to work. (He's a commercial lender, so he doesn't have to be at work by 6:00... he's just chosen to do so lately... and yes, he does have customers with whom he can conduct business so early in the morning.)
Anyway, I tell him that I think he's trying to kill me because I'm so tired all the time because I've been doing all of the activities with the kids at night and then not getting much sleep each night. You know, adult responsibilities and all...
So, on Sunday, he is in the bathroom. He says, "oh, no, it's all bloody again." I ask him what, and he says that there is all blood in the toilet. I go to check and it looks like he's been having a very heavy period.
I asked him how long this has been happening. He tells me 2 weeks.
WTH!?!
No, he doesn't want me to call the doctor because it'll probably to away. So, I don't call on Sunday, but I call on Monday. They are concerned that he may be anemic because of the blood loss and this could be what has altered his sleep pattern. They wanted him to have bloodwork done yesterday, but he was out of town with his boss on business, so he went today. They scheduled an appointment for tonight with a surgeon (I don't know why he wasn't referred to a gastrointerologist first) to check him out and to schedule a colonoscopy. Although he wants no part of the scope, he'll do whatever the doctors say.
So, please say a prayer for him that he is just annoying the daylights out of internal 'roids or fissures and that he doesn't have colon cancer. I am worried about this. He's only 40 and if it is with bleeding that means that it wasn't caught early. One of my friends is a doctor and she said that most exercise related bleeding is caused by intense abdominal workouts and the bike isn't giving him that. I'm trying to stay positive and whatever it is we'll deal with it however we need to. I know he's scared especially since a good friend of ours is just finishing her colon cancer treatments.
Sorry if anyone thinks I gave TMI. I can't talk to anyone at work and he doesn't want our friends to know what's going on yet. I just needed to "talk" to someone other than his mother who is a complete wreck.
Thanks for "listening."
Anyway, I tell him that I think he's trying to kill me because I'm so tired all the time because I've been doing all of the activities with the kids at night and then not getting much sleep each night. You know, adult responsibilities and all...
So, on Sunday, he is in the bathroom. He says, "oh, no, it's all bloody again." I ask him what, and he says that there is all blood in the toilet. I go to check and it looks like he's been having a very heavy period.
I asked him how long this has been happening. He tells me 2 weeks.
WTH!?!No, he doesn't want me to call the doctor because it'll probably to away. So, I don't call on Sunday, but I call on Monday. They are concerned that he may be anemic because of the blood loss and this could be what has altered his sleep pattern. They wanted him to have bloodwork done yesterday, but he was out of town with his boss on business, so he went today. They scheduled an appointment for tonight with a surgeon (I don't know why he wasn't referred to a gastrointerologist first) to check him out and to schedule a colonoscopy. Although he wants no part of the scope, he'll do whatever the doctors say.
So, please say a prayer for him that he is just annoying the daylights out of internal 'roids or fissures and that he doesn't have colon cancer. I am worried about this. He's only 40 and if it is with bleeding that means that it wasn't caught early. One of my friends is a doctor and she said that most exercise related bleeding is caused by intense abdominal workouts and the bike isn't giving him that. I'm trying to stay positive and whatever it is we'll deal with it however we need to. I know he's scared especially since a good friend of ours is just finishing her colon cancer treatments.
Sorry if anyone thinks I gave TMI. I can't talk to anyone at work and he doesn't want our friends to know what's going on yet. I just needed to "talk" to someone other than his mother who is a complete wreck.
Thanks for "listening."
You are in our prayers
