RHGB

Yep. Good luck for tomorrow. Let us know how it goes  🏅🤗

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Good luck RHGB

Today should be a walk in the park, it is an abdomen scan/ultrasound, very similar to what pregnant women have. Except mine will be, liver, pancreas, gallbladder and kidneys. The only pain is they smother you in gel, which you can't remove until you get home and have a bath. Still won't be as bad as about three years ago, when I had one for testicles, prostate and kidneys, that was less pleasant.

The only issue was I had to be up at six this monring to be able to eat before the six hour cut off time. I know they'll ask me as a standard question when I get there if I've had anything to eat or drink in the last six hours. And I will say with a dead pan face, yeah, just had a mixed grill washed down with two pints in Wetherspoons, a bargain. I can keep a straight face long enough for them to start telling me off for wasting their time and did I not read the instructions and then I will smile like a Cheshire cat.

I'm alright with needles actually, it's just with the amount of blood they need to take for the tests (a lot more than other people) and I bruise easily because of the low platelet count. A few weeks ago after bloods, I had a massive bruise with a clear injection mark and had to go to Addaction a few days later and keep my arms covered up in case they thought I was on drugs. Because they do write to your GP, they told me so. And I needed that on my record like a hole in the head.

Tuesday is Doomsday for my gastroscopy. I went to have a tour at the hospital about two weeks ago and saw all the stuff, the scopes all hanging up, the guy in another room cleaning them, where the op takes place, some other room I can't remember, the only thing I didn't get to see was the recovery room because there were people in it.

It is as bad as I thought, but I decided to get a backbone and go through with it. I said to the nurse, I first thought it was one of those small thin clear plastic tubes and she was like, oh no, you're thinking of the ones that they use for up the nose - I said stop, I'm feeling queasy already.

Well, just back and.

Surprised the radiologist said anything, most people doing any sort of scan/check won't comment and leave it to the gastro or specialist, but I said, I know why I'm here and you know because you have all the info on the computer there.

I said you were taking your time, so it's not good news. To which she said, no, I could find something, your liver isn't brilliant, but it is no worse than it was. However yyou have some gallstones, that looks like it was missed last time and that was what I was looking at.

As they're not causing any problems, they will probably be left alone. Just Tuesday now and then the gastro will do his report on the bloods, scan & gastropy together and I get a full original copy of the bloods.