OMGWTF Holzer Hospital?

[cornerofmadness]

Not only did they lose that one lab I told you about. Holzer's lab TOTALLY lost one of the 24 hour urines (the one that would determine if this was a cancerous tumor or not!) How do you manage to lose two labs?

Needless to say the endocrinologist was no more pleased than I was. Ridiculous. The tumor isn't putting out any cortisol (so I can't blame being fat on that one). But it IS putting out aldosterone which is another hormone that does, among other things, blood pressure (mine isn't high, btw). SO I have to go on a high salt diet for two weeks to see if the tumor can be suppressed or not or if it'll need to come out.

Watch my eyes light up. Eat MORE salt? My favorite flavor in the world? By God just watch me. How much salt doc, huh huh? A teaspoon? Um doc, that's me cutting OUT salt not adding more... He just gives me a look. But on the good side, if you have an aldosterone producing tumor it's non-cancerous so yay.

Comments

[sita-137.livejournal.com]

Way to go Holzer!

Sheesh.

Well, at least there's good news in there, too. :)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I know on both counts. Thanks

[stars91.livejournal.com]

Heads should roll for that one! WTF? Losing labs? That's just unacceptable!

But you did get some good news, so YAY!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

isn't it? My doc was furious.

and yes. thanks

[0-mother-0.livejournal.com]

*slaps that lab upside the head*

But great news on the lack of cortisol, it being benign (those two words next to each other really mess with my mind...) and on getting to eat more salt on doctor's orders - whoohoo!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

seriously SALT. Am eating salt and vinegar chips right now. Yeah I'm not supposed to have potatoes but SALT, it requires carriers

[0-mother-0.livejournal.com]

Oooo, nice choice - I love salt & vinegar chips too.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

delicious stuff

[mulzrule.livejournal.com]

URGH, lab people. I've met some pretty dumb/ignorant lab doctors in my life but was lucky enough to only have lost work once. But yay for the negative cancer test! Woot!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it's a pretty high level of incompetance. We're talking something the size of a half gallon milk jug here. HOW do you lose that?

[chaos-by-design.livejournal.com]

Yay for non-cancerous tumor. Total non-yay for idiotic lab. Yay for being able to eat lots of salt.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

the salt is good

[silvrethorn.livejournal.com]

Losing one lab is bad. Losing two from the same patient is scary. Somebody needs to take a real close look at whoever is supervising the work there.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

that was MY thought.

apropos of nothing (or more precisely our other conversation) one of those pro authors did just excerp a bit of her latest unpublished draft so hopefully the publishing houses have come into the 21st century just a tad)

[silvrethorn.livejournal.com]

They have to come into the 21st century. With all the online writers' group members posting excerpts of works in progress, among other things, if they don't bend on the issue of online "publication" they're not going to have any "unpublished" material to publish themselves.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

well she added a very disturbing thing about them going 21st cen. if they don't get X number of preorders for a book online that's all she wrote