Botox!!!

Well, I had my first injection of Botox!!! It better take away all the wrinkles and leave me looking and feeling good :)  Ok, so I did have a Botox injection, but probably not in the way you are thinking.

Thursday night we left for Temple again and stayed at a hotel again. We actually got to stay in the same room we had last week. I had to be at Temple for 9:30 in the morning and with traffic being crazy we decided to just head down on Thursday and stay. I'm glad we did because traffic was super bad because of the beaches being evacuated.

We actually didn't make too bad of time getting to Temple on Friday morning. We were a little early, but that was better than being late. They informed me at registration that I would need to give a urine sample before they would do the procedure to make sure I wasn't pregnant. I had to laugh because I don't go that frequently and I had just gotten up and went already. They ended up having to give me a bolus of fluid and wait a little while before I was able to give them a couple of drops.

While they were taking my history and asking all kinds of questions, the fellow asked if I had a gastric emptying test before that had shown delayed gastric emptying. I wasn't sure how to answer her because I've had four of them. One showed I did, the next was normal, then I got sick during the next one, and then I just had one the previous week which I didn't know the results too. So she left, and I thought that was the end of the conversation but about 5-10 minutes later she came back. So confirmed that the gastric emptying test I had the previous week showed that I did have delayed gastric emptying. (That is all I found out from the testing I had the previous week, and she didn't go into detail.) 

So since that test showed it they were going to go ahead and do the EGD with Botox. Everything went well with the procedure, I can't go into detail about it because I was out. What they do though, is a regular EGD and then they inject Botox all around the pyloric valve. The Botox paralyzes the valve so that it stays open and the goal is that it will help the stomach empty. 

Now it is a waiting game to see if it will work or not. They did inform me that it may not work, but they have to give it try before they do anything else. It can take 3 days - 2 weeks for me to start noticing if it's going to work. I'm hoping it does. 

I do have a follow up appointment in October with the actual doctor which I haven't seen since my original appointment in March. It's supposed to be a one month follow up, but October was the quickest they could get me in then. They did say I could call a certain person and she would probably be able to get me in sooner.

I'm heading back into work tonight, but thought I would give you all a little update.

Taking it one day at a time!!!

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CCRN

Monday I passed my CCRN test!!! I went with a coworker to take it and we both passed. I was so excited. It is a very hard test, some even say it's harder than the NCLEX.

Last Two Days at Temple!!!

Sorry for the delay in posting about the last two days of testing at Temple. I thought I would write just a little bit about the last two days, but I still don't want to go into detail.

Thursday and Friday of that week were the worst. I definitely don't want to have to go through any of that stuff again. It was NOT pleasant!!! If I were a doctor I wouldn't schedule those tests unless they were absolutely necessary. Nobody should have to go through that stuff just for the fun of it.

I just want to say that when you are in the medical field I think it makes some things worse. Especially when you know the resident isn't doing something right but they don't know that yet and you have to be the one to tell them :-/  Plus, it doesn't help your confidence level in them when they act like they don't have a clue what they are doing and have to ask the person in the room with you what to do before each step and if it's the right thing. The worst, is that the person they are asking is either a nurse or a radiologist. It is kind of funny though, when you keep a secret that you are a nurse and actually probably know more than they do, and then you can laugh on the inside about what they are doing wrong and how embarrassed they would feel if you told them you were a nurse.

We still haven't heard any official results of the tests or even spoke with the doctor yet. So I really don't know anything about any of the tests I had done.

I leave today to head back down for more tests tomorrow. Hoping it all goes well tomorrow. Also, hoping I get to see the doctor and maybe hear a little bit about the tests I had last week.