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wobblerlorri) wrote2010-05-12 03:19 pm
wobblerlorri) wrote2010-05-12 03:19 pm
Saw the surgeon today
I went today to see the surgeon about the EsoPhyx procedure, where they go in through your mouth and put these little pleats in your stomach to recreate the lower esophageal valve, to stop reflux. Apparently it isn't as easy an answer as the EsoPhyx website makes it sound. Even 5 years out, I may not have enough pouch to make this possible, in which case it would require having the gastric bypass reversed, then do something else like a duodenal switch (which I really should have had in the first place).
Even that would be complicated, because of the huge piece of mesh that was placed after my last hernia repair (the tension free one in 2005). I really don't want it messed with, because it's done so well. Plus I don't particularly want some involved procedure done with the associated hospital stay, because as we all know hospitals are filthy, nasty places.
So tomorrow I'm going for an upper GI series, so that the surgeon can visualize the esophagus and the pouch, see how big it is, and how my esophagus is doing. Hi-ho, what fun. At least Medicare paid for the entire visit, and they'll pay for the GI series. Yes, he takes Medicare!!!
In rental house news, the realtor came by yesterday and told us he has someone who's interested in the house and wants to know what we would take for it, cash money. He did say he didn't think she had the $109,900 we're asking, so he wanted a low ball number. We told him $95K was rock bottom, but try to get $98 or $99K. He mentioned that he took someone in and they said it smelled too smoky (our last tenants smoked like chimneys), so we went yesterday and cleaned the carpets, and left the windows open to air it out.
So there we are.
Even that would be complicated, because of the huge piece of mesh that was placed after my last hernia repair (the tension free one in 2005). I really don't want it messed with, because it's done so well. Plus I don't particularly want some involved procedure done with the associated hospital stay, because as we all know hospitals are filthy, nasty places.
So tomorrow I'm going for an upper GI series, so that the surgeon can visualize the esophagus and the pouch, see how big it is, and how my esophagus is doing. Hi-ho, what fun. At least Medicare paid for the entire visit, and they'll pay for the GI series. Yes, he takes Medicare!!!
In rental house news, the realtor came by yesterday and told us he has someone who's interested in the house and wants to know what we would take for it, cash money. He did say he didn't think she had the $109,900 we're asking, so he wanted a low ball number. We told him $95K was rock bottom, but try to get $98 or $99K. He mentioned that he took someone in and they said it smelled too smoky (our last tenants smoked like chimneys), so we went yesterday and cleaned the carpets, and left the windows open to air it out.
So there we are.