Sunday, June 7, 2020

Initial Appointment January 2020

About a week before my initial appointment, I began birth control. This was so they could line up my cycle with their timeline. I was to stay on it until told to stop which they would tell me at my initial appointment.

My initial appointment came up really quickly. One of my friends was able to come with me so Randy could stay home with our boys and our dogs which I was grateful for since it's not fun driving alone. Especially when the roads aren't the greatest due to snow and ice!

A truck we saw that had slid off the road,
my friend took the picture.

The water ultrasound was first and was really easy but they had a little bit of trouble getting the upper part of my uterus to stay open so they could check it. I unfortunately had some polyps show up on the ultrasound which immediately told us that I would need surgery. They told me their lady who schedules the surgeries would call me within a couple of days.

Giving blood was super easy and it's what I did next. I got results later that day from them over the phone and they told me that my thyroid levels were a little low and that they wanted to start me on a medication. They said they had called it in to my pharmacy and that I could pick it up once ready. All my other levels were normal.

Next up was meeting with my coordinator. I was super excited for this because she would lay out all of my appointments and I would know for sure when the transfer was scheduled for! I also had to go over all of the consent forms and she told me how to sign them online and that they would then be able to send my husband a link so he could sign them as well. She asked about if I needed surgery and I told her that yes I would. She said that's just fine! They had scheduled it out far enough so that I could have surgery if needed. Which turned out to be a blessing as my surgery wasn't able to be scheduled until the week before I began my meds. Once finished, I met with their scheduler and we scheduled out my appointments so that way I knew what time each was going to be at!

It took about a week until I finally got a phone call to get my surgery scheduled. And that was after emailing my coordinator about not receiving the phone call when they told me to expect it a couple days after my initial appointment. She was just as confused about why they hadn't called me and told me she'd send them a message about it. Once it was finally scheduled, all I had to do was wait until that day. Which was scheduled about a week after that phone call.

Til next time!
Becca

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