One of the reasons for hanging around Jojoba Hills this spring has been to get the Doctor visits out of the way. Alice is done, and I am finally down to only two appointments in the next two weeks: first a review with my cardiologist on what the recent test results might show, and second to test my eye pressure.
Alice had a visit to ER, followed by a battery of tests, following some high chest pains. The conclusion was that her heart is fine, but she was taking the wrong medicine for her blood pressure. She is now on lisinopril and that seems to be helping hold her blood pressure in check. However, she has experienced some withdrawal pains coming off 10 years of atenolol. In addition, her GI is now back in working order, but!!
The but!! is because the gastroenterologist wants to do another colonoscopy, even though they found nothing strange a year ago. She was diagnosed with SIBO (small intestine bacterial overgrowth) after their procedure, and its treatment with antibiotics had her guts churning for weeks. And now they want to do it again. I am arguing against it. Seems like over-diagnosis and treatment is one of their problems.
However, Dr. Ebersole, our family physician does want me to go for a colonoscopy -- a standard prescription for someone my age. Best to be checked and verified as okay than be surprised down the road. So, I guess I will be the next volunteer there.
My Afib is still about the same: not bad enough to warrant doing something invasive to try to stop it, and the pills keep things in synch most of the time. Dr. Wood will tell me more next week.
Wolf if getting old as well. He has a cough at night and likes to sleep a lot during the day. But when he is awake and running around, he is getting along very well. I don't really want to make an appointment with the vet for him unless he really starts to go downhill.
So I judge that we must be getting well. Maybe not as well as we could be, but well enough to let well enough alone.
sam
