:shoothead :dunno: lol i guess she's worryed about me getting old :D i guess she's is PA"NICK"ING:giggle:
like i've never said that before.."i'm getting old" i guess she's worryed about me pounching out early..so last week she made an apointment for me at the doctor for today.. some questions and tests today.. like blood work..tomarrow i have to get an ultrasound and an Xrays.. ok! what for my big gut? and black lungs? :giggle: maybe they think i'm going to have a baby!!:D and next week i'm going in for a stress test because the doctor says i smoke! ok! :giggle:
on other notes about the review before the first tests today..
since i don't like to goto the doctor..
of corse i was a wize a$$ on the questionnaire :D
like..
how did you hear about us?
lol i did'nt.. i was told about you by my mom..
next
who referred you to us? lol mom again!
medical illness? hope not!
do you drink coffee or tea? yes i'm a coffee junky!
do you drink alcohol? yes! i need a beer!
do you do drugs? hell no! it's a waste of money! my car is my drug!
allergic reactions? yes to doctors
age 40 years "OLD!"
did you ever have a stress test before? yes.. everyday at work!!
medical history? long time ago.. it's the past.. check channel 51 the history channel..
some quotes while the tests are being done..
i asked the doctor to take a look at my leg so i rolled up my pant lag and he asked asked a few questions which i answered .. and the doctor said don't worry about it.. but then he yes i said HE! said the more cloths you take off the more interesting it gets! lol the only responce i could come up with was HEY! HEY! HEY! easy now!
then they drew blood 3 VILES! i said HEY! give some of that back!! is their any left? i need that stuff to live! GOT BLOOD?
i guess thats about it for now.. stay tuned!
back to the doctor at 8:45 in the morning..
Nick
Bwahahahahahahhah!!!!, that's funny, heheh:D
Dom.
Just wait till the blood work comes back. With the new cholestrol lowering drugs, they have a whole new level of whats considered low.
:dunce:
Nick, since I see your around lately, you'll have a PM in a few minutes, I have a cam-related question for you.
Did you really write 'lol' on a questionaire?
Nick..you ARE old!! :p
Don't feel too bad though, Roger goes for his stress test tomorrow morning...did they tell you that it takes 3 hours? :eek:
So far he's had an EKG, an Echocardiogram, and tomorrow the stress test. BTW, they did find some kind of weird movement in his heart....it's a huge long 6 word name....always so technical ya know?
BTW, when it asked about 'shag' in the questions...did you say...."No, I never get any"? :rollin:
some chick wrote lol in my brother's yearbook...:toilet:
40?!?!? It's all downhill from here... first your arms get too short to read that small type and the optometrist says you have "old eyes". Then your feet start to hurt ("plantar fascitis is common in middle aged men" - bah). Various aches and pains manifest themselves on parts of your body you'd forgotten you had if you do a little yard work on Saturday. Forget doing an honest day's work, it could kill you. They're going to want to give you so many drugs for your heart you aren't going to believe it... cardiac risk factors, you will hear it again. You're going to be overweight at best and doing everything wrong with your diet and exercise.
....and then before you know it you're staring hard at 50 and that doc wants to do a colonoscopy. :shakeass: :(
My advice - Make momma happy, she won't be here forever and you will miss her nagging you no matter what you think now. And you're right, she won't ever let go...
like i said meny times before it's not downhill.... it's over the hill!:( OLD:fart:
and yes karen i know it's three hours long.. i told them i wanted to run on the treadmill with a cigarette in my mouth :D
anyway a little update for now..
well the doctor said yesterday that i was obeast lol so i told him hell at least i have guts! :D
and which after all these years i now know why i have a very large belly and no it's not from beer.. i have a very very enlarged spleen about 8 inchs round by about 2-3 inchs thick.. oh boy!! and now today i have to go for more blood work at a hematologist to see what the story is. my platelet cound is low.. they think i might have to go under the knife and remove my spleen.. over my dead cold body!!! :raspberry unless i beleave it is truely live threating.. but first the tests and i will see..
the funny thing is the doctor said since my platlet count is low if i bleed.. i could bleed to death.. huh i get cut allmost everyday and the cut stops bleeding within a min.. or so go figure gee maybe it's low because i drink alcohol and pop an aspirin once in a while..
anyway hey at least my cholesterol is only 107:D and i eat and drink like a pig!:flip:
stay tuned...
Nick
Hell, for you 3 hours is like a pack and a half...
I guess my worms theory is out the window...
Hope everything goes well!
haha :raspberry :flip:
thanks;)
next update tests tests and more tests :shoothead
today another 8 yes EIGHT! viles of blood today!
thats 11 in two days!! GOT BLOOD?
and now i have to take two days off next week for tests..
another ultrasound and and a CATscan of my mid body how fitting..
it seems everything in my life these days have to do with a CAT go figure:rolleyes:
this is getting insane march first i close on new house and have to start moving..
while this is happening i'll have like 8 medical apointments with in 3 weeks 6 medical and 2 dentel.. :shakehead
it's my mom's fault lol :D she did it ;)
stay tuned
Nick
I hope things work out, Nick. I'd hate to see anything bad happen to you. I know how hard it is to quit smoking. I started when I was 17 and I just recently quit. It's been four months since I've had one, but I think about it every day.
Keep us posted on it.
Mom's will always luv ya.There takin that much blood from ya,
you better listen to what they say.How's your liver?
To many enzymes.You will listen to MOM!.Or she might beat you.
Your only 40 Take the care,Liv life see it ,I.m sure your concerned.Only you can do it.
Sorry if I'm harsh.lost to many freinds lately.Take care.
Yeah, those questionairs can be fun.
Myself and a friend had to take a physical for a job interview once.
Question: Whats the hardest part about shag?
My friend wrote: Blowing up the ed doll.
I wrote: When you bite her tit, she deflates and flys out the window!
Question: Do you use any illegal drugs?
My friend wrote: Ya got any?
I wrote: I'm using a peice I tore from this survey to roll a dubee!
Good luck with the tests, I went thru that about 6 years ago. Quick funny story watch out during the treadmill portion of the test, I was at the highest speed and highest angle and the nurse leaned across to adjust a sensor and hit the emergency stop button on the treadmill, thought I was going to run out the window. I lived in Palm Beach Gardens at the time so maybe you have the same doc
LMAO! Roger told them the same thing! Well, he said it would be easier with a cig in his mouth.
So, how fast did you get going on that thing?
Roger was at 5 1/2 mph at a 20% incline before he hit the heart rate that they wanted. :eek:
Then they came and told me to never try to outrun him...I said, out run him? Hell, he better run in a zig zag pattern, I'm a better shot than he is! :p :shakeass:
Hope all your tests come back good for you Nick....Roger's seem to be ok right now... they'll tell us next week for sure, but the doc he had yesterday said he didn't think there was anything to worry about.
next update..
well not so much of an update..
anyway
i went for another ultrasound today and yes i have GUTS!!, a spleen the size of a buick, a liver and some other sutff :D
and i got a cat scan today to.. and nope no cats.. i told them if it's a cat they where looking for i have one in the parking lot..:flip:
but now form all the radiation i seem to glow in the dark!!
i think i can heat up food like a microwave to..
on another note they made drink 3oz! last night and another 2 whole 12oz cups of this junk that they said tasted like gatorade.right not even close and i told them that!! so the lady asked what i thought it tasted like i did'nt have the ba!!s to tell the lady that i now know what CAT piss taste like now..
tomarrow the stress test..
the first time i will have set foot on a treadmill..for real with out screwing around.. i have an idea on how i might be able to get out of it lol i could just tell the doctors to try and take a BAT! to my cougar and they will just see just how much i will get stressed out!!:evilgrin:
stay tuned!!!
Nick
Nick.... sounds like they are putting you through the ringer!
Hope all these tests turn out good for you.
(if not, can I have your cah?) :D
hey, someone was going to ask...figured I might as well be first!:p
STRESS TEST? they call that a STRESS TEST! :giggle:
:laughing: :flip:
i get more stressed out when i see my pay check.. :rolleyes:
anyway
to start it off the questionaire
the two questions that made me laugh
1 can you walk on a treadmill? sure why not? i guess..
2 this was funny as hell.. but hey i guess it's 2007:shakehead ...
do you have breats implants? what! hope not!!!
so the test starts..
first injection of more junk! so they can take some pictures of my chest,lungs and heart before the treadmill test.. and this is done with radiation for about 15 minutes and after the treadmill for another 13 minutes.. from lower chest to jaw was getting very warm!!while this test was in progress. now i know how a hot pocket feels:D
so on to the treadmill portion of the test..
i stated at about 80 beats per minute and shot up to 121 beats per minute.. the doctor's like you ok? i said yes i can't walk this slow it's like tip toeing.. can you kick it up a notch? he said are you kiding? nope do it.. he said ok! so he jumped it to about 3 MPH and BAM! my heart rate went down.. he was like huh? i told i said i walk fast..
all the while i was lieing over the handle bar instead of holding on with my hands. lol
so we stayed there for a few minutes.
while this is going on "walking/jogging" another doctor is watching the test that was at the other office i was at last week and saw my report and says how meny packs of cigarettes do you smoke a day? i responded up to four! as i'm on the treadmill i said so can you pass me my pack please :D
so the doctor say ok you will need to hold on to the bar it's about to go up to 5 MPH i said ok let see what you got! and after he kicked it up i was like thats it? and leaned back over the bar.. finely after a while of me over spining the motor on the treadmill and poping up motor electrical current errors :giggle: :D to try and get the doctor speed it up i finely hit 154 beats per minute..
after the doctor told me by law he could'nt go any faster
he did say it was strange that when he kicked it up at first that my heart rate went down.. i said because first i don't walk that slow normaly and when i was young i learned to pace my self real well.. i never liked gym in school and so the gym teacher used to think he or she was punishing me by making me do laps around the gym or field.. lol untill i started doing them backwards the whole class with out stoping :flip: then the teacher would have challenge to see if anyone in the class could out run me in total laps with out stoping for the whole period.. now that was fun :D
stay tuned
Nick
Dude quitting smoking is easy. I've done it like four times already. :D
well new update...
since about two weeks ago
well for starters i pasted my stress test they said everything is normal with my heart and arteries which i figured that i would pass it..
anyway..
about my spleen it is the size of a buick!!! from 25cm to 30cm which is from 9 to 10 inches normal is about 3 1/2 inchs to 4 inchs
and all the blood tests say it's not my liver..
so yesterday i had to go for a bone marrow test which was a SOB!..
and parden the pun a real pain in the A$$! to say the least!
i'd rather be :punchballs:
with this test they are looking to see if it's truely mt spleen that is the problem of if i might have leukemia or lymphoma or something else and i will know the resolts of this test by next wednesday..
all this so far from a simple check up :disappoin :shakehead
but hey at least i'm in my new house ;)
till next time..
Nick
Shame its only your spleen. ;)
hell i have quit smoking too many times... i always quit smoking... then i light up my next one lol joking aside.
this is why i aint much into medical stuff. im sure ya would have been fine if you didnt know anything about your spleen. i think alot of medical issues arise from a mental stand point of KNOWING about it. or even worrying about it. for example if ya worry your gonna get sick doing something... u tend to get sick often. but this is just how i view things and probably some or alot of you disagree.
But i do hope things work out good for you
Eric
well i got the resolts of my bone marrow test today..
and the answer is!!!!
Gaucher Disease type 1 and is why my platelets are low and why my spleen is so large..
there is no cure but it can be treated.
the down side of this is
1, i would have to be treated once every two weeks and maybe once a month as time goes on for the rest of my living life!
and 2! it cost about 400G's a year to treat! THATS $400,000.00 A YEAR!:eek::wtf:
do i need to break the numbers down for the cost of each treatment and or the total cost if i did live to be about 80 years old..
my next step is to see a specialist that deals with this Disease and only this Disease.. to see what my next step will be after that..
on another side note
my doctor apologized to me today.. why... because he said i had ba!!s to act like i think i'm allways right :D
and he said i was!
about what? that my belly and spleen was allways like this since i was very young.. he said that it was'nt like he did'nt beleave me but he could'nt see how that was possable untill now..
sometimes i really hate allways being right!:shakehead
till next time
Nick
Nick, I sincerely hope for the best for you with your current situation.
I'm sure Nick has researched already. For those who wish to know more :
http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition=gaucherdiseasetype1
Man...that's messed up, Nick.
I didn't know you were Jewish! ;)
Personally I was always hoping you just had a massive ringworm. I figured that would explain everything.
So I hate to ask this but...does smoking affect the disease at all? Because if you have to give that up...
He'd be a fish out of water. Probably the only thing keeping him alive.
no i'm not jewish!
and about my smoking Eric why would you hate to ask?
i think of you as a close friend.. i've known you a little over 5 years now;) then again i guess not that close! i live about 1200 miles away..
i know smoking is'nt good for me at all but don't think it makes a difference..
my lungs on the other hand is a different story...
like i said i was born with this Disease..
hopefully one day i will be able to quit this smoking habbit.. hopefully before it kills me..
unless this Disease or my Spleen kills me first!
Billy"mercoug302" made a great coment last night about this..
he said it figures that it's not the smoking thats the problem or at least right now it's something else.. being the fact that i sometimes smoke up to 4 packs a day since i was about 22 years old..
just thinking about this Disease since it is hereditary.. now i really don't want to have any kids.. i'll pass! i'm [SIZE="6"]ALL SET![/SIZE]
Nick
WOW! At my worst I was up to one pack........WOW!