OK in Friends With the Benedicts

So I wrote about "miracle kitten", let's see what else? lol. If you missed that entry it's back one. Anywhooo... yea so Medicaid has changed. Because of Obamacare, you now have to pick a "plan". Instead of it just being Medicaid. So I called to inquire and they have a Humana plan! Like, really? Medicaid? They do know that's the free health insurance for poor people right? LOL! So I will be on Humana starting in August! Yay!

I'm starting to get things taken care of that need to be taken care of too. Like, that got put on the back burner when the whole strokes/MS/Hospitalization/Brain surgery happened. Back in 2009 I had a pap come back abnormal. This was no surprise, they have been abnormal since we lived in Iowa in like 2003 when I went to the free clinic up there. But this time was different. This time they tried multiple times to reach me to let me know because of the results. I have HPV (the cancer causing kind not the warts kind, there are two lol) and "high grade lesions" on my cervix. Well, I did not get anything done about it way back then, obviously, because we did not have the money. I can't even remember now what they wanted to do. But I know we didn't have it. So now, I have not one but two appts with OBGYNs at two different places. This is because the first is with the community clinic I go to anyway and it is earlier and the second is with the place that I will likely end up if/when I need to have anything past a pap done. The only bad thing is that I am pretty sure it is going to end in surgery and the place I will end up, The Seton Center, is affiliated with Sacred Heart hospital and not Baptist, which I am use to and like very much. I do not like SHH. But ya know, it's not enough for me to not go to them because of it. I am just hoping that my pap results at the clinic are back before my appt. with the Seton Center so that I can go in for whatever needs to be done instead. I think it was a transvaginal ultrasound if I remember correctly. Both my Mom and her sister had Endometriosis and had horrible periods and ended up having a hysterectomy. I have been having very heavy periods for a few years and they have gotten steadily worse. I cannot take birth control because of the strokes and I do NOT like some of the things I hear about the IUDs. I want it out. I will not be using it, and depending on what my MRI at the Neurologist shows (get to that in a minute) I could have gone into Secondary Progressive MS and I don't think there are any meds you can take and still be fertile anyway. Even if I haven't gone into SP, I could have to take a med that will leave me infertile. And we don't WANT kids anyway. This is the argument that I would make to any doc who didn't wanna do it because I don't have children. I should not be punished for not wanting to reproduce. I have my reasons and they are very good ones! It kills me that stuff like that is even allowed. Yet we fight to make sure we can choose to get an abortion. Don't get me wrong, I support that too, I just think it's no different than being able to say you don't want any more kids and then being able to have a surgery. Like getting your tubes tied. It's ridiculous. Only I should be able to say whether or not I will have kids. Not a doctor. Anyway...

So I am going back to the Neurologist too soon. I expect to get lectures and to have an updated MRI scheduled since it has been well over a year since my last one. I haven't been on any disease modifying drugs and I am sure they will wanna correct that and put me on something for the MS. We need to discuss these migraines too. Had to go to the hospital just tonite because of one. I wanna know why I am getting them like this now. Is it a lesion? Is it the brain biopsy? Did something go wrong? I am taking my meds like clockwork and usually they work but sometimes I get breakthrough migraines big enough to send me to the hospital and I think they are getting tired of seeing me. I am getting tired of considering it my second home. So something needs to be done. There is A LOT of new symptoms I have now that I didn't the last time I saw them. I will have to let them know of those. The breathing issues, the choking on everything including my own saliva, the muscle cramps, the hand tremors, the horrible pain, and on and on. So it will be a long appt. to be sure. But it will be done. And I hope when it's over, that I won't walk away with an RX for another injectable drug.

Last but certainly not least is my feet. For years now I have had bone spurs that hurt deep into my bones and cause my toes to burn. At first my doc thought it was gout by the way I described burning toes. She finally did an Xray and voila... lots of little growths where they shouldn't be. For anyone this would be a problem. For a person with MS who walks like a drunk anyway, it's more than a problem. And it hurts. So... I wanna have surgery on them to remove the bone spurs and be able to walk without pain. I am sure this will involve a podiatrist, who that will be I do not know. There is a lot to find out on this one like do I need a referral or what? So yea, that's why it's last. So until then I will suffer with very painful feet. At least the right hurts more than the left. And I can feel them too... On my feet I get like thickening of the skin, a callous I guess, and then underneath if you press hard enough you can feel it. I read up on it and it says your body makes the callous as part of a way to cushion the new bone. Well, you failed, body. Yet again. Can't you do anything right? I mean hell, I got my own immune system attacking and eating the protective coating from the nerves in my brain, I got things growing on my cervix, and now my feet are making little bones where they shouldn't be. Can somebody just put me down? LOL.

Well, I know I promised pics but I will do a strictly pics entry next time. I am beat! I slept till 6PM but that trip to the hospital wore me out. So, I am outta here. Sorry for the novel, and to think I am not even done catching yall up on everything. Heh.. oh well. Love! <3

Steph