Well now I find myself in the hospital, there is some waiting to get into Emergency but nothing that seems to be out of the ordinary, blood tests are ordered and I'm put in a bed. I discuss my symptoms with the nurses and Emergency doctor.
My blood comes in with a haemoglobin of 68, to put that in perspective when I had been at the hospital a couple years ago with a particularly debilitating migraine my level was about 170. So about 2/3 of my blood is doing me all the good of tap water. Now of course the question is, where did it go?
Well tests are to be ordered, it looks like I'm bleeding just a bit somewhere in my digestive system, just enough to drain the goodness from my blood. Looks like this might be an ulcer, maybe Colitis, something like that. Next thing you know about four days have passed and I am really starting to miss having solid food, nothing but fluids and I.V. First a Endoscopy and then a Colonoscopy are scheduled and run.
Very strange, had a bit of an existential crisis (just a little one). For the scope test you're kind of put under, apparently you respond to the doctors and are aware somewhat during the procedure but afterwards it's a blank, no memory of the events. It is hard to imagine experiencing something but having the memory of it disappear , I can't say I like the idea of that.
My results come in from the doctor who has come to talk to me, I have a restriction in my large intestine, and it's Cancer.
I have no words.
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