My gastro guy called me 3x the other night. He looked at the scans and said it is a 1x1.5" mass that was not in the colon, but was along side of the sigmoid colon. He even called the Radiologist who read the scan. Gastro guy talked to me for awhile on the phone and asked me to come in the next morning. That office visit, consult, and exam lasted from 11:50-2:05. He took a thorough history, found my file from 2001 and added several pages of notes to it. He did a rectal and vaginal exam after asking my permission for each process. He said he felt something outside of (not in) the rectum which is why he wanted to do a vaginal exam. With that he assured me that, although it's not a regular thing he does, he is trained for that. He felt something on the outside of the vaginal wall, not in. At that point he got on the phone to my OB/GYN who handled the endo cancer. He wanted to speak directly to the doctor and was tired of being put on hold so he called the emergency labor/delivery line. The OB/GYN doc said it was very unlikely that it was something to do with the endo cancer that I had 14 yrs ago, but that they would work together to try to figure this out (apparently they're friends).
That was my Tuesday morning. My 3:00 Tue appt was a follow-up with the urologist. I do have 2 kidney stones on the right side - a 4mm and 7mm. They did a urinalysis and said there was microscopic blood detected. They called me about the culture today and said that with my history and what's currently going on, they want to do a CT Urogram with contrast and a cystiscope (sp?). CT Urogram got turned down by insurance (so far). They don't want to cover it since I just had a CT on the 12th. For the cystiscope, if I want twilight anesthesia for that procedure, I have to pay for it out of pocket.
Three days ago Highmark turned down my husband's first ever colonoscopy ($1828). He called them and they said we should ignore the bill because they must have put down the wrong number.
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