Mar 10 - Mike's Health Care Blog

Mar 10 -

Mike had an appointment Wed Mar 7th with his primary doctor, who is the doctor who sees him for his bleeding disorder. He had tests and an x-ray and has been all cleared by her for surgery. This is good.

While there, Mike's doctor said that she referred Mike to a UCLA hematologist who will be the hematology doctor who will oversee Mike during the surgery. Their office called us already to schedule the appointment. We will be seeing him Friday Mar 16th at 9am.

Mike will also be banking his own blood that day and hopefully they will be able to schedule the next MRI (actually called an MRA due to it being more specialized -they will be using that for the surgery) that they have to do so that we can get all of this done in one day.

Mike's had a couple of bad migraines this past week. but he is hanging in there. today he is out with brother-in-law, Ron, to get out of the four walls of our house and have a distraction.

Our van has been giving us trouble....in the beginning of Feb we had to have some major work done to it; rear brakes and the head gasket fixed (it was cracked).  The also replaced the some things on the coolant system. Anyway, this was happening all at the same time as we were finding all of Mikes results out. Bummer, but oh well. Then two weeks ago, the check engine light came on. New issue, the coolant system needed the sensor replaced and they didn't do that before and also they found that the gas tank had a crack in the pump as I had been smelling gas. So again, it was in the shop. Last week two more times my check engine light came on. These things were fixed under warranty but just one more thing we didn't need to deal with.

Anyway, that i all that has been going on for this week.

Thanks,
Leslie