Archive For The “Pete” Category
The rudeness of our first OB prompted me to get a second opinion. I couldn’t deal with her and her miracles. I needed someone to tell me the truth or at least act like they cared. I called into work and made an appointment with a different practice where one of their female doctors was [...]
It began with the hot flashes. It was September, after all, and the building that I work has an air conditioner that is notorious for breaking. I kept telling my friends at work that it must be “The Change.” Which doesn’t happen at the ripe old age of 28, so it seemed like a good [...]
By Lindsay | September 6, 2011
We are sitting in the waiting room at Mayo Clinic and Pete is reading Cat Fancy. It’s Biopsy Day #2. Biopsy Day #1 was a waste of time and money. The doctor at Florida Hospital did not take enough of a tissue sample and sent it to what I’m now calling a nephropathology farm, so [...]
It’s Sunday morning and Pete and I are at Jack and Mary’s, our diner of choice.
We spent Saturday night celebrating a magical early Valentine’s Day by pretending to be grown ups. Dinner at Kres, followed by attending Celtic Women (my idea, of course) at the new Amway Arena. The spritely Máiréad Nesbitt pranced around the stage with her fiddle as I leaned over to Pete and said, “I’m going to start doing that around the house.”
He laughed and replied, “We don’t have enough space for that!”
Peter and I had to take a trip to the wonderful Mayo Clinic last week for his six week check up. The doctor was supposed to have obtained Peter’s biopsy slides, but the hospital that we had the procedure done at hasn’t been cooperative. We were both a little disappointed, because once Dr. Aslam takes a [...]
We had Pete’s doctor appointment last Thursday, and I took a half day so that I could go. I’m pretty sure that everyone knows about the Best Doctor’s report (a benefit through work, they send his medical history to a leading nephrologist who writes what he thinks Pete should do). Out of that came a diagnosis [...]
So we’ve had quite the adventure here at Florida hospital. I woke up with a cold, and have been hiding sneezing and blowing my nose here in post-op (and using crazy amounts of hand sanitizer). We started out by going to the wrong building. And now we’re in the midst of waiting five hours for [...]
In the morning, Pete will be having a kidney biopsy to check up on how things are going in there. It’s a fairly minor procedure. We have to be at the hospital at 6 am, the procedure starts at 8, he’s in recovery at 9, and we have to hang out there for a few [...]
After six patient weeks of waiting, we finally got Pete’s Best Doctor report back. It’s a little overwhelming for a few reasons. The doctor who wrote the report and answered all of our questions works at a Harvard teaching hospital. He backed up everything he said by citing 44 references. 44! And even though most [...]
