[Magdalen] A couple moments @ the doc's yesterday.

[Roger Stokes]

On 13/07/2016 23:27, M J _Mike_ Logsdon wrote:
> I made him laugh a couple times.  At one point I said "If I've learned anything since January and Stanford, it's not to panic."  And later I happened to mention that none of my Stanford specialists have gone so far as to formally diagnose me, in spite of treatment both semi-successful and successful.  He responded with a medical version of the "curse" we threaded about here not long ago:  "May you be interesting to a specialist."
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> On the practical front, he's referring me out to a urologist for the random trace blood in my urine.  But on the abdominal ultrasound front, he questioned the practicality of it, considering how he already did one on me a few years ago and it told all such a thing can in my case, that there is liver damage.  The question of cirrhosis, he says, is only answered not via an ultrasound, but a liver biopsy (which thought of course made me jump in my chair), and he said if I had cirrhosis I'd be in distinct pain, which in the area he said it would occur I definitely am not.  I'm at Stanford again next month, so if it comes up we'll discuss.  (It is nice to have two professional opinions going, even if there's some disagreement, I suppose.)  (If you do a Google for "cirrhosis" you'll see a cartoon picture of a guy with leg pain due to liver damage.  Does give one pause.  If Stanford insists on an ultrasound, I'll have one done, and then scream and rant about the biopsy they'll no doubt want to do.)
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> Overall, my local doc always puts me at my ease, and that alone made me feel better today, if only a bit.
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  Ever fancied being a research project for some bright young doc who 
wasnts to make their name with a highly unusual condition?

Roger