Post-endoscopy haze

[ilai]

I went in for an endoscopy at Mt. Auburn Hospital this morning. I remember everything up until the point where I was told to lie on my side and the doctor delivered the sedatives, and everything right after I woke up in the recovery area. Everything in between was an eerily missing chunk of my memory, as though I went to sleep right away and woke up naturally and not groggy. Getting off the bed was like standing up suddenly after you've been lying down for a long time.

chenoameg picked me up and drove me home, and I've been sipping ginger ale since (purplerecluse cleverly pointed out its existence). Doctors orders are to make no major decisions until tomorrow, so maybe I won't be able to work on anything meaningful today.

A few minutes ago the phone rang with a prerecorded message about satellite TV. The woman said to press one to talk to a rep, but for fun I hit the pound key, and got a lovely "your number has been removed from our system" message. Whee!

Comments

[okosut.livejournal.com]

No Ian! Deciding whether to press one or pound was a major life decision! That was a huge mistake, you shouldn't have done that.

[lokiect.livejournal.com]

Doctors orders are to make no major decisions until tomorrow
and that's when you told the doctor that you were planning on taking the rest of the day to decide if you were buying a house, car and mail order bride tomorrow. oops!

on a more serious note, when do you hear about the results? after friday's?

[superjeannie.livejournal.com]

I hope you feel better!

It seems like they should at least find something fun in there when they do an endoscopy ... like a dancing bunny, maybe.

Although ... that's kind of a disturbing thought ...

Anyway, someone should get you a present for being good.

Like a dancing bunny.

(That didn't come from your internal organs.)

OK, I'll go now.

[poissonvert.livejournal.com]

I hope the recovery goes well!

[ilai]

Oh noes!

[ilai]

Or all three! Such craziness!

On the discharge form the doctor mentioned something about my esophagus and said she sampled some stomach tissue to look for inflammation. But the actual results I'm guessing I'll find out from her when I see her in two weeks.

[ilai]

Thanks! Afterwards I really wished I was awake enough to watch the endoscope wriggle around inside my tummy on the big screen TV, but alas either I wasn't conscious or I don't remember it. ... Doctors don't record the session for replay, do they?

I actually did get a present: when I got home I found a bloodwork requisition form in the mail! So I took a little walk just a few minutes ago over to my PCP's office, and now I have some cotton gauze on my left arm to match the band-aid on my right hand! (from the IV this morning) Receptionist's comment: "Nope, we don't charge you anything for taking your blood"

[ilai]

Thanks! I was a bad person and ran errands this afternoon... shhh, don't tell anyone ;)