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So I went to the Gastroenterologist today. This is the same lady who saw me pretty much every day for the two weeks I was in the hospital last summer (and the same one who gave me the unanesthatized colonoscopy – grrr!) She took one look at my labs and my belly and said I needed an upper endoscopy ASAP. She walked out of the room to see when I could have it done and next thing I knew I was being whisked from one room to another for pre-op certification, insurance verification, etc. My endoscopy is at 7:30 a.m. tomorrow.

Hopefully whatever it is, it will show up clearly on the endoscopy. Even better if she can snip, cauterize or otherwise fix it while she is in there!!! Will update when able.

On Tuesday afternoon my OB called and said that I’m not pregnant. But what about all the nausea/abdominal pain/dizziness, etc?

Called internal medicine and they said, “Duh, girl, you need to go to urgent care and get that checked out. Sounds like last year when you had the intessuception.” Oops.

So I went to urgent care on Tues night. They gave me morphine and Zofran and had me start drinking three cups of liquid contrast for a CT scan. I got through one cup and started having major pain in my belly. So they gave me liquid Maalox and lidocaine to drink. It was all good for about two minutes and then, BAM, my belly exploded in pain so badly that I started crying. WTF?!?!?! Next thing I know, they are giving me Dilaudid.

CT scan showed no intessuception, thank God, but it looks like I have a bleeding ulcer. They sent me home with instructions to get straight to the gastroenterologist for an endoscope. Then we’ll find out if I need more surgery. Ugh.

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