Today I go in for those MRIs...

 

Oddly enough, my neck and shoulder are feeling better, and that is what the MRIs are for... isn't that always the way.

But my stomach is rip-roaring in pain even after my Nexium a couple hours ago and Pepcid Complete and Gas-X just a while ago! It feels as if I swallowed glass! Which I didn't!

Aah GERD, what a marvelous issue!!! NOT!!!

And no I am not overdosing on stomach medication this is what all gastroenterologists have prescribed for me! And I do believe most GERD https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/gerd/symptoms-causes/syc-20361940, sufferers.

Mine has become more severe over the years with just a thin sliver for a stomach due to sleeve surgery back in 2016.

The surgeon who removed my gallbladder offered to do a stomach bypass surgery for me, saying it would make the GERD go away... but the surgery is removing my stomach and a tube from insides would go straight to my intestines! This is why it is called a bypass. I checked and it said there is a 43% fatality rate. So no.

Moving on...

Back to my MRIs, should I have canceled?

Right now, I do not think I can lie still for two hours.

Moving on...

I received a call from the same PT company last night wanting to give me PT today.

I told them I have two MRIs this morning and I do not need nor want PT, and I told Mark that this was Bel another PT person from the same place.

About an hour or two later when I looked at my emails it turns out that in my portal the doctor had requested that for me, thinking it would help since I could not have the Epley maneuver https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/home-epley-maneuver due to the cervical stenosis.

Oh, well.

Moving on again...

Right now I guess the last two stomach meds are working, and my shoulder is hurting.

So if nothing else, I will go for the MRIs.

 I am pretty upset that the Akumin Imaging Center did not get back to me with my previous cervical MRI they promised they would so the hospital would have that comparison from 2017.

Oh, well.

As Hubby keeps reminding me, they can get them to compare.

He's right.

And so, we must go, for now ...

Please be smart, as well as safe.

Have a very pleasant day.

Count those blessings, and we will too!

Next time, please be here or be square, ya hear!

Aussie, say good day!

I am Aussie, not being from Australia, but American-made. I will comply anyway, for the fun of it,... so I will say good day!

I am called Aussie because my Mom asked a sixteen-year-old girl, who had been looking at me, in the crate at the adoption site, that day, what she thought I should be named. And without hesitation, the teenager had said, Aussie! She was just looking, by the way,... so Mom did not steal me from her.
We never did find out the girl's name, and Mom liked the name Aussie too. We have since found out that it is a very common name, but it is still just right for me! My parents think that I am uncommon though,...some might say even unique! I do like that.
I am an Australian Shepherd. Here is an interesting factoid about me, I was supposed to be a miniature Australian Shepherd, but...as you might know, I AM NOT! Although I am now three years old, so I am the baby, though I tip the scales at around seventy pounds, HA! I must admit, a very big one! 
I was three months old when Mommy and Daddy adopted me. I had been taken out of a hoarder's home in the Carolinas with my litter. Below is my new PIC that had been taken on the birthday that I share with my Dad, but Dad is much, much older than me!!! I was the first to be adopted, February 16, 2018, his brother's birthday.

                            3 months................................................3 years

No tail/tale publishing, circa 2018. 

Get it? I was born without a tail, preferable for all Australian Shepherds; only one out of five are born that way!

                                           

Hello, I am Bella in the picture above, a Maltese Yorkie, a Morkie, and I might be five years old. I am the middle child, so I am what you would expect, with all those idiosyncrasies that go along with all that! Being the only girl has its rewards, as well as difficulties...We are all rescues, so no one knows for sure our ages. I was turned in from my previous family, stating that I was misbehaving with their elderly dog, they had said I was driving him crazy! I was the second to be adopted on 8/18/18, on clear out the shelters' day!Oh, by the way, my record's called me Belle, and so for no known reason, Mom decided I was more of a Bella; beautiful either way!

Please don't forget me, I am Chance, pictured above, a Bichon Frise! I am six years old, so they think, and the eldest, and I like getting up early with Mom and Aussie. Bella sleeps in with Dad, till after seven most days, even later! I enjoy a good tug-of-war on the ropes that Dad had twisted for Aussie and me, and sometimes even Bella plays too! I was the last to be adopted, on January 23, 2020. 

I was wandering the neighborhood for days and then saw Aussie and Bella in their living room window, so I hung out there... The Animal Welfare League checked me out and kept me for sixteen days until I was allowed to be adopted. Good evening? 

Now my name of Chance is because I was given another chance, it could be only the second one or perhaps more... The animal control lady came out to see if I had a chip I.D. with her machine, and Dad told her that he wanted to name me Chance. His reason being, that if no one claimed me, I want to give him a second chance! So that is how I got the name Chance!

Easy as Aussie, Bella, Chance, now you got it!