Too Many Doctor Visits

Twenty twenty four has not started out very well. For the last month we have been to see a doctor for my husband’s annoying and aggravating medical issue. Hopefully it will turn out to be nothing, or at least something that we can get to the bottom of and live with the outcome. We have been to three different caregivers and he is scheduled for a test at the end of next month. So even if you can see the doctor sooner than later, you can’t have the required diagnostic test for a few weeks.  In between that time I’m dealing with someone who has never been ill and is also a doctor. All the worst case scenarios are considered even when there is not yet cause for alarm. It can become mentally exhausting with the highs and the lows of feeling better, then feeling worse again. It makes one consider how we didn’t always appreciate how healthy we were and taken it for granted. I have had several surgeries and am on several prescriptions and have had a lot of pain and aches in my life. For someone who has never had any of this it is a shock to the system. Regardless it is mind numbing to go through this process and we appreciate and wonder how everyone else manages these trials and tribulations. I prefer to worry once I know there is a real problem. And wouldn’t you know in between all of this I finally had my annual exam and need to schedule a consultation for something. My husband had a routine eye appointment at the same time - just another doctor visit. None of this is life threatening to date, but it sure has changed the mood in the house. I don’t like it but can’t do a thing about it. And it’s winter. I know things could be much worse. I’m not good at changing the routine. But I guess I’ll just have to get used to it. 

The Cataract Surgery Process

We moved to northern Virginia from DC ten months ago. We finally switched over to doctors in our neighborhood. Getting to appointments in DC was hard enough when we lived there and we just didn’t want to deal with the traffic anymore. We knew my husband probably would be needing bilateral cataract surgery, and it was shown to be true - even though he doesn’t feel his eyesight is bad. So now we are on the journey of having this surgery done - like so many thousands of others. Two cousins and my sister recently had the same thing. But being in it and hearing about someone else having it are two different things - especially since my husband has never had surgery - except for laser surgery for glaucoma. So every visit, on line website, eyeball measurement, lens options, eye drops, and bills are becoming a big part of our lives and it will go on for several weeks. My husband doesn’t have patience for any of it - especially since he was a surgeon and things just seem so much more complex than they used to be. And they are. Hopefully everything will work out well. Our one disappointment is that the routine visits will be in an office not even a block away but because of this  procedure we need to travel 12 miles out for several appointments. But at least it’s not driving towards DC. I’m looking forward to getting this all over with. And I know he is too.