Well, here is my start of the windmills pattern.  I just need to do one more puffy cloud type thing to the right of the windmill, then I can start on the first words row.  This is moving along quickly, mostly because it’s a narrow pattern, at only 3.19″ wide, I feel like I’m moving right along given that I just started on the 4th of July.  It’s a nice distraction from my Quaker Virtues, but I admit that I picked that up last night for a bit because I didn’t feel up to stitching the little flowers or grass yet… but today the desire to do those came easily, and I’m finished.

On medical fronts, I picked up a copy of my ultrasound report from the Radiologist regarding my abdominal cyst, I followed that by calling my nurse practitioner to get the results (I know, I know, I already said I just got them, but I wanted the treatment plan), and so I spoke to my FNP’s friendly, yet seemingly spacey, clinical assistant named Ashley.  She said that my FNP had not yet looked at my results and she’d call me back a little later.  I asked her to call on my cell phone, as I would ensure that I’d have it on me all day.  But wouldn’t you know it?  Guess what happened?  Of all the times when something wonky goes on with my cell phone, or the Verizon-can you hear me now-network, it was when the friendly Ashley calls me back at 5:30pm (WHEN THEIR OFFICE NO LONGER ACCEPTS INCOMING CALLS BECAUSE THEY ARE CLOSED) and somehow only gets my voice mail, even though I HAD MY PHONE ON ME AND I DID NOT MISS A CALL.  What in the world?  And of course, I can’t call back (read:  I tried but did not get through) because they are done for the day.  RRRRRRRGH!  Did sweet Ashley think to try my home phone?  No, because apparently when I asked that she call my cell, that meant to only call my cell.  My word.  What an annoyance, to put it mildly.

The results that I got from the radiologist as he interpreted my ultrasound (and compared it with previous CT scan) show that my cyst does not appear to be ovarian in type, but may be a “peritoneal inclusion cyst”, or a “mesenteric cyst”.  So, today, I spent some time getting my medical degree via google, where I found that if it is either of the two above, the chance for anything malignant is very rare, as well as that both of them are not all that common. 

Regardless, I just wanted some peace of mind today from happy-sweet-as-sugar-Ashley, and therefore my FNP, advising me of what to do about this.  What is my treatment plan?  I’m tired of stressing over something that apparently is nothing, but yet I feel it every time I sit, or sit and cross and uncross my legs, and or sneeze, or have a full bladder.  I tell you the truth, that you do not realize how much you sit, until you realize that when you sit, you are uncomfortable.  I’ve had this for sure since March, and who knows how long before that… I always thought the pains I was having in my left abdomen was due to gas!  Good grief. 

Tomorrow I am to call happy Ashley back, when she WILL be in the office, even though she was in the office when I called back tonight, just that they no longer accepted incoming calls because they were closed.

SO ANNOYED.
Thinking of getting another doctor.