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From: CKP
Date: 11/01/01
Time: 15:10:13 -0600
Well, we decided to go ahead and keep the appointment. Lee, what color are the trees up there? If there are any signs of red or orange it would be so worth the drive. I can live without snow, but I do so miss a "real" fall. In my part of Florida, the leaves stay on the trees until January, then turn right from green to brown and fall off.
But I digress.
The reasons we are going ahead are...
1) Although I have had a great couple of days, last Friday I had swallowing problems with two meals. I feel like I'm over the worst, but we don't really know for sure. So I need to talk with the doctor about if/then scenarios, of when to call back if it isn't better, etc. It would be so much easier to talk about it now than to call in a panic later.
2) If there were problems down the road, they might claim that it "could have been caught earlier if I had done the proper checkups." So I am covering myself by making sure the chart is complete.
As far getting an endoscopy a year after surgery, my answer is firmly NO. If this new arrangement is working, there is no way that I am letting them mess with it by putting that big tube down. I was MUCH worse after each endoscopy. I am confident that I would recognize the chest pain that I always had with the esophagitis, and I would also be willing to do a barium swallow or 24-hr pH test. But frankly, I have no intention of ever setting foot in my GI specialists office again. I no longer have GERD.