I was up a great deal of the night and spent a lot of time
in the recliner. When we went to the
temple last night I got a pain in my ribs as we were going in but when we got
in to do sealings it did not hurt so I assumed it was nothing but then when
I was dressing it began to hurt again. I
kept thinking that it would go away but it did not and I ended up calling Tanner
Clinic when the phone line opened about 7:00 a.m.
They said that they had an appointment with Dr. Michael Yeates at 8:30
a.m. so I took it. I didn’t have a regular doctor to ask for
because Dr. Lee had died about a week or two before and I did not want to go
back to a Dr. Kendall that I had gone to recently.
I woke Larry up and asked him if he wanted to come with
me. We got dressed. At the time I was worried about a heart
problem. Larry gave me a blessing before we left. In it he told me that this was a short problem and that I still had things to do.
When we got to the doctors they did several tests that
determined that it was not in my tissue.
They did an EKG and it said that there was a 95% chance that there was
nothing wrong with my heart. But the
doctor said that he wanted to send me to the hospital to get some tests just to
make sure. He gave me two papers one for
a prescription and one for the tests. I
assumed I knew which one was the prescription and when we got to the hospital I
didn’t know what to give them so we went back to the doctors office to get the
orders. In the mean time I went to the
pharmacy for the prescription and when I gave them what I thought was the
prescription it was the orders. So I
felt stupid but we went and got the other orders and went back to the
hospital. The tests at the hospital were
blood tests. We had them completed and
went home.
We went home and ate and waited for some eye exams that we
had at 2:00 p.m. About 1:30 p.m. the
doctor called and said that we needed to go back to the hospital because one of
the tests had indicated that I had a blood clot. I asked him if I could go to the eye exam
first and he said that he wouldn’t . He
was afraid that I could have the clot move while in the chair and could die there
so we postponed the eye appointments as we drove to the hospital. They were very understanding and gave us new
appointments the next week.
They did a CT Scan at the hospital. Then we went home to wait to hear what the
doctor said. He called about and hour
later and asked us to come into the office.
So we went to the office again.
Thankfully it is only 5 minutes away.
When we got there it was about 5:00 p.m. They were trying to close up
the office so I was surprised that he had us come down. When we got there he said that the good news
was that it was not my heart. But then
he said that the bad news was I had a broken rib and that I had bone lesions on
my ribs that was probably the reason for them breaking. He said that with lesions like this I could have
broken my ribs by sneezing. He then told
me that he had made an appointment for me with Dr. Carl Gray at Utah
Hematology and Oncology on November 18th. I wasn’t sure how bad this was but the nurse
looked at me like I had just been told I was going to die so I figured that it
was Cancer. We came home kind of bummed
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