Shitty Day

Courtesy of Ike, its a pretty shitty day here today. Lots of wind and rain. Luckily, its the Tropical storm type that comes in s flash, pours almost horizontal, and is gone in about 5 - 10 minutes...only to return.

I'm off today. My followup with my gyno re the pain and fibroids revealed that there is no reason on earth for a 2 cm fibroid to cause this pain. The ER got it wrong. I'm off again today for another "pelvic sonogram".

All I can say is Thank god my friend Marie was with me in the ER, when they mentioned my having one for the first time. She's given birth to 2 babies, and clued me in as to what exactly was involved. For those of you in the dark as to what I'm referring, lets just say that a large white plastic wand and lots of gel is involved, which is inserted inside you. No, it does not vibrate. I asked :(. Marie's advice was just lay back and enjoy. Of course, that was difficult to do, given that I was lying on a gurney with some nurse and a strange male wielding the wand. Me, apparently not up on pelvic sonogram ettiquette, nearly fell out of the damn gurney when he asked, "Would you like to insert it yourself?" WHAT???? Uh, nooooo, was he out of his mind? I just had to laugh.

So, my gyno said that the pain could be a ruptured cyst "or something else". She never did define exactly what the "something else" could be, and I didn't ask. She said no need to go over what it could be, when its so easy to find out what it is. That sounded good to me. I figure that the alternatives to the cyst can't be good. So, I'm off to have another test, at a place that specializes in just pelvic sonograms. Apparently the test is only as good as the radiologist reading it, and the hacks at the ER apparently aren't that experienced in the girlie diagnosis's (how does one make that word plural?...diagnosices?) to be reliable. nice.

Anyway, that's my big day. At least I scored a day off.

UPDATE: They didn't find anything in this eval. either. They think that it was me ovulating. Huh? For four days? Who ovulates for four days? When I queried why I've never felt anything like that before.....their responese? Our bodies change over the years. OK, did they just call me old?

Here's a science lesson...apparently your egg is in some kind of cyst-like pouch, and it explodes out every month. Hence, ovulation. They think that's what I felt. So, I'll go back and consult my gyno with this result, and see if it could be some other thing or if she concurs that its nothing. While its frustrating that I feel that I didn't really get any answers today, I guess no answer is better than some of the alternative answers. I wish I'd just go through menopause, and get it all over already. With my luck, though, I'd start growing a mustache and beard.

As Roseanna Roseannadanna used to say, "It's always something".