Back to the cold

10. March 2009 by Bex.

I got home after midnight last night/this morning and we didn’t get to bed until well after that.  Poor Ron had to go to work right away and I went to the doctor.  He looked at my innards and said that my uterus is indeedy divided into two cavities.  I spent two hours there, talking to the specialist, the physician assistant and then the lady who handles all the insurance.  Among considering surgery, the doctor said I need to consider testing for the BRAC I and II genes that pretty much guarantee breast and/or ovarian cancer.  I’ve had the mastectomy but haven’t worried about the ovaries yet.  I thought that having yearly paps would find it in time but I am finding out that isn’t always true.  If you get your genes tested and it’s positive, you can be discriminated against by your insurance company and by employers who don’t want to provide benefits for someone who is going to get cancer someday.  And if it is positive, if I can even PAY for it out of pocket to begin with, then I need to think about getting my ovaries removed.  Blarrrrghhhh.

Anyways, it was good to see family in Arizona.  We ate and drank and hung out in the desert mostly.  We also went to watch some baseball spring training.  The Mariners played the Dodgers and won.  It was interesting even if I am not a huge baseball fan.  The Royals won the day before which was very nice to hear.  It was a quick trip; the family is good and the weather was nice.  I’m home just in time to start freezing my ass off again.  Here are some photos from the trip:

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