This is my post for #freewriters 2703 prompt cluster fork hosted by @mariannewest
Last Monday, I got a call from the nurse who works for the vascular doctor, and she told me I needed another angiogram and a stent. When she said the word angiogram my anxiety went through the roof because I had one in 2022, and it was very painful. The doctor stuck a needle into my vein through my arm and ran the wire in that way, and everyone says that is more painful, and it was. The people I talked to said they had theirs through the groin area, and it did not hurt. I will try to get him to go in that way.
Other than that, I read the report of the MRA I had, and it said there was no blockage. I called the doctor's office today to find out why he wants to do surgery when there is no blockage. The nurse tried to tell me that I had a blockage, and she read her report to me. It was completely the opposite of what my report said. I asked if they had mixed my test with someone else's because this is one big cluster fork to put it nicely. She said no it is my test, so again I asked why there was a difference in the results. She said the doctor looks at the images and not what was written on the report. What do the people reading the report look at? I am so confused.
I just spoke with my oldest, and she told me the doctor can see things with the images that the people reading the images can not see. That did not make any sense to me. Then she told me her boss, who recently passed, had a mammogram, and the test results showed nothing and a month later, she was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer and passed several months later.
I have an appointment to speak with the doctor on Monday. I hope he can ease my mind because I have always felt the problem I am having is in my neck. They have focused on my problem being Neuro, then they said it has to be my heart, both are fine. This report of the MRA says nothing is wrong. So this worries me that I am going to be put through something and still have the same problem when it is over.
My problem with this doctor is, when I first saw him, he told me he thought it was a blockage in something called the clavien artery or valve, or something that sounds like that. He said this without looking at any images. Now that I had the MRA, he is saying that is where the blockage is. My question is, is he guessing because that is where he thinks it is and because all other tests have been negative for anything wrong, and he thinks he knows the answers?
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