Let's start off by saying this.... today I got an upper GI endoscopy. For those of you who don't know what that is.... here's how it went.
Traded in the track jacket (go penn state!) for a paper gown.
Had an IV put in my delicate little hand.
Was prepped by 3 nurses while simultaneously being grilled about my tattoos, eyelashes, and earrings.
(Said prepping included a painful blood pressure cuff, oxygen being pumped into my nose, and a plastic O put in my mouth and strapped around my head like one of those torture gag things.)
While I was knocked out the doctor put a tube down my throat with a camera and looked at my esophagus, stomach, and part of my intestine and took a sample for biopsy.
Ta da! I woke up not long after in the room where I started!
SO.....After putting my clothes back on the doctor came in saying I had a bunch of tiny ulcers and that he took some tissue to biopsy but he though that was not the cause of my pain.
Now I have to go on tuesday and get a HIDA scan.... which will further test the functioning of my gallbladder.
WISH ME LUCK!
Ps.... I have been in so much pain the last week it's nuts....
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