Got the insurance approval and the surgery is scheduled for tomorrow. I went at 3:20 PM to the Surgeons office and they gave me a packet to get admitted to Doctors Hospital at Renaissance. Went to the hospital and finished the paperwork and they had me do a few more tests, usual blood work, bleeding time, MRSA (Felt weird when they do the swab), EKG and an x-ray.
I have to check into the hospital at midnight for the surgery and the surgery is scheduled for Nov 1, 2011 in the morning. Apparently I have to spend the night tomorrow also in the hospital and then they will discharge me on Wednesday. I am scheduled to fly back to Detroit on Thursday.
The result of the biopsy will take 7-10 days.
The biopsy is a simple procedure where they make a small incision in the throat area and then take biopsies of the all the enlarged lymph nodes. I will be under general anesthesia and will zonked out tomorrow is my guess.
The chance of death is always present in any surgery, but I guess the chances are very small and not even worth mentioning. But...
Just in case I do die, I tell Neeta to be generous, and think about what I would do. I do not have time to write out a detailed Will like I have in the past. I also have a folder on my laptop labeled Money and Loans, and people owe me a lot of money and all those details are written in that folder, with each person having a separate excel file.
OK, so I am going to take a shower, pack and get ready to go to the hospital. See you all, hopefully, in a few days.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Thursday, October 27, 2011
I weigh 250
Did you know that I have lost a lot of weight and I am now at 252 pounds. I am wearing a size 42x32 for pants and 18-1/2 34/35 for short size. I had to donate all my old clothes to goodwill and get almost all new clothes.
I hope to get under 200 pounds for 2012. A lofty goal in 2012, but I figure a little hard work on my part and I should be good to go.
At 252, my knees have stopped hurting and all the walking I am doing has become very easy. So time to bump up the distance and really get the weight lose popping.
I am not sure if it is age, or what, but food does not appeal to me anymore. I could go all day without eating without a problem. The only time I realize that I need to eat is when I start getting dizzy late in the afternoon due to low blood sugar. A few days back I had skipped dinner and gone to bed and the alarm rang in the morning and I woke up and by the time I got to the shower I was actually dizzy and felt weak. I barely made it out of the shower without falling and on wobbly knees I went downstairs and ate cereal. After about 30 minutes I finally started feeling better. I wonder if I am killing any cells in my body when I get to that low blood sugar state? Not sure, but nowadays I actually have to think about eating, or I simply skip the meal without realizing it.
I wonder if there is some hormone that controls appetite, and why some people are skinny and some are fat. I have really noticed this lack of appetite over the last 3 months. I wonder if the disease I have is causing this lack of appetite? I have lots of questions, but no answers?
I hope to get under 200 pounds for 2012. A lofty goal in 2012, but I figure a little hard work on my part and I should be good to go.
At 252, my knees have stopped hurting and all the walking I am doing has become very easy. So time to bump up the distance and really get the weight lose popping.
I am not sure if it is age, or what, but food does not appeal to me anymore. I could go all day without eating without a problem. The only time I realize that I need to eat is when I start getting dizzy late in the afternoon due to low blood sugar. A few days back I had skipped dinner and gone to bed and the alarm rang in the morning and I woke up and by the time I got to the shower I was actually dizzy and felt weak. I barely made it out of the shower without falling and on wobbly knees I went downstairs and ate cereal. After about 30 minutes I finally started feeling better. I wonder if I am killing any cells in my body when I get to that low blood sugar state? Not sure, but nowadays I actually have to think about eating, or I simply skip the meal without realizing it.
I wonder if there is some hormone that controls appetite, and why some people are skinny and some are fat. I have really noticed this lack of appetite over the last 3 months. I wonder if the disease I have is causing this lack of appetite? I have lots of questions, but no answers?
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Sunday - Going to San Antonio for Ra One
Ra One got terrible reviews, and I have not seen a Hindi movie in almost 4 years, since Sept 1997. I had my own reasons for shunning Hindi movies, but my friends in McAllen and I are going on Sunday to San Antonio to see Ra One at 1PM.
I always wanted to see Delly Belly and a couple of other movies before the surgery next week. I have loved almost every movie that Amir Khan has made or produced and I have missed all his movies over the last 4 years, and I think that it is time to catch up with his movies.
I always wanted to see Delly Belly and a couple of other movies before the surgery next week. I have loved almost every movie that Amir Khan has made or produced and I have missed all his movies over the last 4 years, and I think that it is time to catch up with his movies.
Wanting
I used to have a bad case of wanting. This is a disease in which you want more and more stuff. I have decided that I will not buy anymore stuff and will dedicate the rest of my life to some of the goals I had created for myself.
I was going to buy a Bentley as soon as the lawsuit with the ex-wife was over, and since it is over, I was going to buy the flying spur. This was the first summer that I did not buy a play car.
But after lots of thought, I think I have been given enough and I really do not need anymore of anything.
So, I will not be buying anything except for absolute necessities.
I have a few goals for 2012:
1) Start a foundation that my family and friends can borrow from or get direct gifts from. I have asked Sujey to get this started and will initially fund it and I will add to it every few months.
2) Give a gift to my dad. My mom always wanted a Mercedes in India and I am going to give him the money since I felt like he wanted to buy it for her, but his budget never really allowed for it.
I know that my ideas are kind of small and simple, but that it all I have for now, as far as things that I absolutely wanted to do.
I was going to buy a Bentley as soon as the lawsuit with the ex-wife was over, and since it is over, I was going to buy the flying spur. This was the first summer that I did not buy a play car.
But after lots of thought, I think I have been given enough and I really do not need anymore of anything.
So, I will not be buying anything except for absolute necessities.
I have a few goals for 2012:
1) Start a foundation that my family and friends can borrow from or get direct gifts from. I have asked Sujey to get this started and will initially fund it and I will add to it every few months.
2) Give a gift to my dad. My mom always wanted a Mercedes in India and I am going to give him the money since I felt like he wanted to buy it for her, but his budget never really allowed for it.
I know that my ideas are kind of small and simple, but that it all I have for now, as far as things that I absolutely wanted to do.
Biopsy
I went on vacation and when I got back home I was feverish and had a cough. Over the last 3 months we have tried:
Main symptoms now are cough for last 3 months, which can be treated somewhat with Advair and Tussionex Pearls
1) Nothing
2) ZPack
3) Some other anti-biotic
4) Asthma Medication
5) Got a CT - This showed mediastinal lymph node enlargement.
6) Got an ACE - Normal
7) Only abnormal finding was an elevated Alkaline Phosphatase
Since we cannot find a definitive reason of what the disease process is, I now have a surgery (Biopsy) scheduled by Dr. Francisco Bracamontes in McAllen during the week of Oct 31-Nov 4th. Hopefully this will give me a definitive answer of what the heck I have. I really do not care what it is, Lymphoma or something else, just need to find out what it is and then we can work on a solution to heal it.
Main symptoms now are cough for last 3 months, which can be treated somewhat with Advair and Tussionex Pearls
1) Nothing
2) ZPack
3) Some other anti-biotic
4) Asthma Medication
5) Got a CT - This showed mediastinal lymph node enlargement.
6) Got an ACE - Normal
7) Only abnormal finding was an elevated Alkaline Phosphatase
Since we cannot find a definitive reason of what the disease process is, I now have a surgery (Biopsy) scheduled by Dr. Francisco Bracamontes in McAllen during the week of Oct 31-Nov 4th. Hopefully this will give me a definitive answer of what the heck I have. I really do not care what it is, Lymphoma or something else, just need to find out what it is and then we can work on a solution to heal it.
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