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Posted by dragonyen at 11:08 PM CST

Man has life been busy recently... I don't even know where to begin...

I was having some stomach pains a couple weeks ago... one kept me up until 4:00 in the morning, and one woke me up at 4:00 in the morning... both lasted around 4 hours. Unfortunately, my house supply line had burst the day before the second attack. I had found during the first attack the lying in a bath full of hot water made me feel much better. But since the pipe was broke, I had no water. After 2 hours of pain, I finally went outside and turned the water on. There was enough pressure to get the bath filled, even though I was also leaking water in to the street.

I decided I needed to talk to a doctor about it, so we called a specialist that I have used before. He prescribed Nexium thinking maybe it was Acid Reflux, but wanted me to come in for an EGD (camera down the throat) and a colonoscopy (the opposite of an EGD). The pain wasn't enough to warrant both tests, but as I said I had used the specialist before, so he knows more than I care to share here.

A co-worker and I started digging up the front yard in order to find the pipe, and see if the leak is small enough we can repair it. However a tree is planted in the front yard, and it’s root system has covered most of my front yard. We give up after enlisting the help of a neighbor, and only getting around 8 to 12 inches in about 2 ½ hours. Some roots I cut through were around 1 to 1 ½ inches.

The guys came out on a Friday to fix the water pipe, they decided that they’d need to bring out a backhoe and dig around the tree to re-route the water line. They’d have to come back Saturday. It only took them a couple hours (3 guys) but it was still really expensive ($1,600) but that was the normal rate, not some “weekend” rate as they were supposed to do it Friday.

Anyhow back to the pain, I was in Indiana for Thanksgiving while my tests were scheduled for the 1st of December. The night after Thanksgiving I had the pain again, but probably 2 to 3 times worse. So bad we decided to go to the Emergency room. After a 30-minute wait or so, the pain stopped just as suddenly as it had started. We decided to not wait, as no one else has been seen since we arrived, and there were at least 4 or 5 people waiting ahead of us. My mom said that her dad had similar issues, and it turned out to be gallstones.

Dec 1st came and I went in for my two tests, the EGD found I had a small hiatal hernia (not enough to worry about, but could cause some acid reflux) and the colonoscopy found a 7mm polyp. Of course I'm told I'll have to wait 10 days to find out if it is bad or not. I also informed the doctor of the information that I got from MD Mom. He said if they didn't find anything, they'll want to do a HIDA Scan.

I just got the call today and am relieved to find the polyp was benign. However now I'll have to get the HIDA Scan... which I'm sure will be just as cheap as the other two procedures I had.

I’ve got more to say… and pictures to post (of the yard, not the colonoscopy)… but I’m tired, maybe I can post again this weekend.