Be careful what you wish for

[telerib]

The doctor hadn't gotten the full CT report, so I got no more details on "abnormal." But the receptionist was smoking crack - the doc does not want to schedule another CT scan, but go straight to biopsy.

Yay big needle. :-p But it will settle the question definitively.

So, I meet the gastroenterologist in early January; I don't know if this is an office procedure and I'll have it done that day, or if I'll have to go to a hospital at a later date. Maybe the Internet can shed some light.

Aaand I have an appointment in late January with a gynecological ontologist, to discuss prevention and detection stuff. He's good - he was director of the Gyn-Oncology ward at Johns Hopkins for 15 years and now works at Mercy Hospital, where he's been on the cover of the Washingtonian (or something) as one of the region's 100 Best doctors. Prevention is one of his research specialties. So, that should be a good visit.

Comments

[edg.livejournal.com]

gynecological ontologist

Gynecology as it relates to the nature of being, huh? ;)

Good luck. :)

[telerib.livejournal.com]

Gynecology as it relates to the nature of being, huh?

Exactly. Giving birth to the world, and all that.

[edg.livejournal.com]

Wow. I didn't realize you had those kinds of powers. Does that mean that Moe is Uranus?

[telerib.livejournal.com]

Wow. That took me an unusually long time to 'get'... probably because the dirty pun possibilities leapt out before the mythological connotations. :-)

[curiousangel.livejournal.com]

Giving birth to the world, and all that.

I expect that would really really hurt. Ask for a good anesthesiologist while you're at it, or at least a few good stiff drinks.