Relief

Ah.  Went to see the nurse practitioner today.  Blessing was - it was the original, our NP - Lindsay who was finally back from her maternity leave.  It was nice to see her.

And basically immediately she said I should go have a scope done on my throat/ espoghaus / stomach.   YES!

She asked how my year was - I said........ a challenge.  She asked how my health was over the year......... upsetting.  I explained if she's ever off, not to have Gabriele take care of us, as we just aren't a good match.  AJ said later that I did well on expressing Gabriele issue.

We talked about my chest pains, all that happened over the year.  Once I said it was going into my stomach she immediately said about the scoping.  Why, or why couldn't the other one figure that out?????????

We talked about the MGUS, and the heart specialist.  She will send me but first will deal with the stomach/scope issue.  And then we talked about the thyroid issue.  She was good about it.  Explained that she doesn't understand thyroid hormone, and sees that I have an appointment with the endocrinologist. Which she will see what that doc says.  And if Dr B doesn't agree with the thyroid hormone, then I can let the naturopath deal with it.  But she was more acceptable to my TSH possibly being stress/ inflammation etc causing it to go down, yet saying too that even though I've been on it for 10 yrs, I still have to watch I don't have another coma like issue that could happen with it down so low.  Fair enough, I can accept her take on it.  She said if Dr B agreed and explained it to her in a way she knows what to watch, then she would be fine with taking over that again.  I like the answer.

Overall was there for almost 45 mins, went thru everything and feel like I was heard, listened too, respected.  I felt good about it all.  And think I can now go see her without dragging AJ along.... ha ha ha.