I got a call on Tuesday of this past week from the surgeon's office telling me that more of my pre-op test results came back. My vitamin D levels are too low and my EKG came back abnormal.
Ok, not the worse news in the world.
For the vitamin D, they called me in a script for some 50,000 units of vitamin D. (seems like a crazy amount when your used to medications being measured in milligrams and I guess D is measured in units, anywho...) So I'll be taking the vit. D once a week for 8 weeks. It's not going to prevent them from clearing me for the surgery but I will have to be retested once I get a little closer to surgery just to make sure the suppliment is working how it should. They also suggested that I spend more time in the sun.
As far as the EKG goes, they referred me to a cardiologist and my appointment for that is tomorrow (Monday). I'm not too concerned with that for right now because I've heard it's not uncommon for EKG's to come back abnormal...the leads being hooked up wrong, or having a stressful day, etc can throw it out of wack. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it turns out ok and the cardiologist clears me for surgery. I've gone through a lot to get to the point I'm at in this process and I'd be really upset if something like this prevented me from getting it done. But-thankfully I'll know more tomorrow! :)
Monday is going to be sort of busy for me. Thankfully our office's are closed and I have the day off! I have the appointment with the psychiatrist at 10am in Cary. I had originally scheduled this appointment for last week but ended up changing it because I had a nasty sinus infection and stayed home from work. At 1:45 I have my appointment at the cardiologist which is also in Cary. If I'm looking at it right I think both offices are very close to one another so more than likely I'll have plenty of time to kill between them. Perhaps Jason & I can have lunch together since I'll be near his work too! That'd be nice, we never get to do stuff like that since we don't work near each other at all.
Thursday night was the night from H-E-L-L!! And that's me being nice. lol
Thursday I had my sleep study at the sleep clinic in Cary. I worked till 5:45, jumped in the car, headed to Apex to meet Heather for a long over-due dinner date, and headed on over to the office. I had to be there by 8pm. I get there, watch a super cheesy video on sleep apnea, they got my vital signs and sent me back to the room. Told me to go ahead and change into my pj's and they'd come back in around 10 to get me all hooked up to everything. The room looked like a sad attempt at a hotel room. Fairly nuetral, calming paint on the walls, a surprisingly comfortable murphy bed (ya know the beds that fold up into a cabinet or a wall), there was a flat screen on the wall and a large chair. I also had a bathroom w/a shower and such that was as sterile as a hospital. And that's it. haha I thought to myself that they could've at least hung one picture on a wall, but I guess not. ha!
Oh! I forgot, there was also a video camera on the ceiling and an intercom system that would all be activated once they got me hooked up and to "sleep"....because the 15 wires you're about to hook up to my body isn't bad enough-you'll be watching AND listening to me while I sleep. Awesome! lol
Does anyone remember the movie "Mr. Deeds". Do you remember the butler character in the movie? He was sort of creapy and popped up out of no where all the time? ....Enter Tony-the sleep clinic tech who was going to be there all night and the one who would be hooking me up and everything.
I don't need to say any more on that. LOL
So 10pm comes and Tony gets me all wired up and I look like some sort of sick science project. I then got to have the worst night of sleep I've ever had. The longest period of time I slept was for about 2 hours. Then it was tossing and turning all night, sleeping in 5 minute intervals, along with crazy strange dreams, and it ended by being woken up at 5am.
I didn't realize that I'd be getting that little bit of sleep or else I would've taken Friday off work or scheduled it on a Friday night when I didn't have to work the next day.
I'm really keeping my fingers crossed that when the doctor reads the test results that I don't have sleep apnea. If for some reason I do, I'll have to go back to the sleep clinic, get hooked up the exact same way and then have an oxygen mask added to it. Woohoo-that'd for sure be a great time!
All of this preop drama is just about to be over and I'm very glad! I'm ready to move onto the next step and get my date scheduled. I'll be sure to post again within the next few days once I get some answers on things. Keep your fingers crossed for great news!! :)
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