[2Jedismom]

These shots are not hard...I give ‘em all the time in the hospital. They have an itty bitty very fine needle and you should do just fine!

I wisht I was there to hep ya!

Doc A thought it was a pheo but the urine tests kept coming back negative so she started saying it was anxiety. So I switched to Doc B who immediately thought it sounded like a pheo and said he was going to order the kidney scan and also the brain scan to find out why my vision was screwed up. But then he decided to dump me on the the Endocrinologist, the very idiotic Doc C who informed me that he thinks it is a pheo, but the urine tests I originally took weren’t valid, because I was on a BP med that blocks what they’re looking for. A LOT of that particular med.

Let’s put it this way...I recently started a man of about 350 lbs on the same med in the hospital. He takes 25mg a day, I have taken up to 200mg a day. I’m currently on 150mg or was before I started to wean off for the urine test. I am also still on two other BP meds but they don’t impact the test, apparently.

This morning I took 25mg and that will be it for the day. I anticipate the next few days are going to be most rocky.

As soon as I spike a high BP, I start the urine test.

He wouldn’t order the kidney scan until after this test and didn’t address the brain scan at all.

[darkangel82]

It’s okay, I hate needles too. Hope you feel better 2J, just keep your head up and don’t let that butthead Dr. get you down.

[osagebowman]

Oh, 2J, we sure hope the tests can be scheduled soon and they tell you and the doctor what you need to know. That is quite a list of astericks you have there.

[SuziQ]

Yeah, it is a tiny needle. SirKit had kept the used ones safe in his desk to dispose of them, but found a use for them today. He and Clare were working to get the color printer back up and running, and he used them to suck the air out of the lines that go from the large bottles of ink we use to the printer head. We found that using the bottle saves a boatload of money because those little color printer cartridges are spendy! It can get complicated with the continuous inking system, but the results are beautiful, because we use an ink that's almost a giclee.

I wanted to get that printer back in operation because Joseph will need to print out at least one picture for each of the artists he studied in Art History. We went to a local Japanese/Chinese restaurant, and saw a noren, which is a fabric doorway to hang inside the door frame. It was decorated with the Hokusai painting "The Great Wave off Kanagawa", and Joseph recognized it! His Art History book didn't have any Asian artists, so I used another Art History book, and added a couple of chapters on Japanese and Chinese art. I was thrilled that he recognized the piece, but he couldn't remember the artist's name. I couldn't either, for that matter. ;o)