I know some people who have a real fear of hospitals. I can’t say that I’ve got a fear of them. I’ve visited lots of people in various hospitals.
Of course when it comes to me having to be the patient, that’s a different story. I’ve never been booked into a hospital in my almost 43 years of life. No broken bones, no bits removed, no bits added. Sure I’ve been to see doctors, even specialists once or twice, but I’ve never been to hospital for a ‘procedure’.
That’s all about to change this Tuesday. It’s only a day procedure but I’d be more than happy if it was decided that it wasn’t needed. I wouldn’t say that I’m terrified but I’m probably only about two or three notches calmer than terrified.
I’ll be having the pleasure of a tube being stuck down my throat so that a doctor can have a bit of a look around inside my stomach. They might even scrape a few bits off to check them out. I have a suspected stomach ulcer. It hasn’t caused me any problems for a number of weeks but it decided to remind me of the reason for my hospitalisation at around 3:00 a.m. today. I woke up with nasty pains and knew that sleep was over for me. (Which explains why my previous post was published around 4:30 this morning.)
I mentioned some details here and here but as I said some time ago, “One thing I know for sure is that I will not let this or any other health issue stop me from living. You probably won’t get a lot of updates because I refuse to focus on what’s wrong with me when there is so much good stuff happening in life. I learnt many years ago that people don’t want to hear anyone’s full medical history repeated over and over but that some folks are interested enough to know how others are going. I just wanted to let you know how it’s going for me and now I’ll return to normal blogging.”
I also said at that time, “The paperwork I received for the endoscopy tells me that I’ll get an injection that will make me drowsy and disoriented. I’m also likely to have very little recollection of the hours surrounding the procedure. Excellent. Now that I’m officially freaked out please tell me the good news. I’m looking forward to getting this thing sorted but I have to admit that I am not looking forward to going to hospital. I’m not looking forward to having a hose, complete with camera, shoved down my throat. I’m not looking forward to wearing one of those lovely hospital gowns. I’m not looking forward to handing control of my wellbeing over to some people I’ve never met. Yes I’m a wimp but knowing that doesn’t make it any easier.”
Posted by Rodney Olsen
Technorati Tags: Stomach Ulcer – Pain – Endoscopy
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From what I hear, in terms of places they can shove tubes, you should be relatively happy with your throat….. fortunately that’s only from family’s experience, not my own 😛
Ah yes. You’re right. Things could be worse. I’ve heard of a number of other places that they can shove tubes. As far as I’m concerned, most of them should be strictly for one way traffic.
Well, I’ll be keeping you in prayer for Tuesday.
Thanks for your prayers, Marriane, it means a lot to me.
Hi Rodney,
I wish you all the best for the procedure and a harmless result, too. Let´s be happy that we have the technology to find out what´s precisely going on in our bodys and provide help afterwards.
Good luck!
Praying for you…
Yeah… well… Rodney…. at least once it’s over you should be straight back on the bike again.
Fay might nearly have had to have that procedure…. isn’t that a neat word…. “going into hospital for a PROCEDURE!” Remember that one.
What’s the verse… Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee! Where’s that from? What’s a more current translation?
May His peace be with you.
hope it all goes well for you rodney
i have had something similar done to me but it was for a different organ in the body
the bit about hospital i enjoyed was after the procedure i watched tv drank lemonade and ate ice cream and i didn’t have to stay the night!
it wasn’t so bad afterall
once again all the best this coming tuesday rodney god bless you
I’ll be thinking of you on Tuesday. I know how you feel, I felt the same way. A few years back I had the double whammy in one hospital visit – gastroscopy and colonoscopy! You’re lucky to only have the space invaders comin’ at ya’ from one end 🙂