EGD

So, I meant to update sooner but well, life has been happening. :)

I had the EGD a week and half ago on July 24th.  I dropped the boys off at my good friend's house and they were super excited to play with friends for a few hours.  John and I drove to the hospital (Victory Medical Center) and got there 15 minutes early.  It's kinda rare for us to be early!  We checked in and within minutes a nice woman at registration came and got us.  I signed the consents and she made copies of my drivers license and insurance card.  They immediately took me back and I changed into a gown.

This is the part that I'm not too impressed with Victory.  A nurse came in to get my IV started.  Now, granted I'm not an easy stick and my veins tend to me small and roll.  I mentioned this to the nurse but she immediately went for a vein on the underside of my right forearm.  She got it first try but oh my lord did it hurt!  Needles and IVs don't bother me...I can watch them put it in and I have a high pain tolerance but this hurt.  I've never had an IV put in my forearm EVER and I thought it was so odd.  Every time I just rested my arm it hurt because it was putting pressure on my IV.  Then they said they would go get John and he could come back with me.  But they never went and got him and nobody was coming behind the curtain.  Finally someone walked by and I asked if they would please go get him.  He finally came back and it helped calmed my nerves a little.

I think 3 different people from anesthesia came in to talk to me along with a few other people.  I confirmed that they would knock me out for the EGD.  I was the last one to go back.

I kissed John and they wheeled me back.  The anesthesiologist put propofol into my IV and I felt warm tingly feeling all over and then the next thing I know I was waking up in recovery.  Super easy!!

The doctor came in and told me that he did find a hiatal hernia!  YAY!!! So that means that insurance should help pay for part of the surgery and I will pay the difference.  This is very exciting news!! He also found a polyp that they are sending to pathology but he said he thought it was nothing.  I do have to get another EGD in a year to be sure it hasn't come back. 

I go back to see Dr. Nick next Thursday and I'm hoping and praying to get a date set.