Dear Diary: I Will Be Consulting to an Endocrinologist Today

I have a mixed feelings of what will happen today and I will just try to be passive when I get to finally see a working Endocrinologist for me once again because the last time didn't work well. I am now armed with results from the laboratory workup from just a few days ago and there the doctor will see my off the charts intact parathyroid test results.

I will be expecting that the doctor will give me medicine in order to control the parathyroid but my nurse friend had told me that those medicines are quite expensive and then they will require me to take another parathyroid lab test every three months to see if it is working. If it is not, then they will advice for a parathyroidectomy which is taking about 85% of the parathyroid in order to control the hormone it is releasing that makes my bone weak.

My other lab results shows that I have no infections, my liver is still not affected by my Hepatitis infection. I have a normal blood cholesterol and lipids. Uric acid is okay too, a little elevation on potassium thanks to everyday mash potato meal with gravy. But the phosphorus is quite high which is not good really then elevations on others like creatinine and blood urea nitrogen which is normal for a dialysis patient. But nothing that could make me feel ill.

The only hard thing for me today is the pains when I start to get up and walk and sit but today I will maybe not wait for long to the doctor because last friday my mother managed to enlist me to get to the number 1 slot. So today we will have to be early and get to the clinic before 8:00 AM today.

I hope that the doctor will give me an option to get the surgery but I have a complication, a comorbidity as they say where multiple diseases just hinders a procedure to be done so it gives me a reason to get worried that what I will be expecting won't happen like controlling or stopping the progression of what you are seeing now and what you don't see like the pain that I am suffering from. It will be like a punch on the moon this fight that I am battling with but with God and Steemians friends on my right, that hope is still reachable. God help us all.