Yep, my word is push!
Actually my word for 2016 was push. I didn't even realize that when "push" came to me this year!
First let me give you an update to my doctor's appointments with my pulmonary doctor and my cardiologist. Sorry this ended up being pretty long.
My pulmonary appointment went well. They took me almost right away which was awesome. My lungs sounded clear to the doctor. What he is going to do is send me to physical therapy to teach me ways to expand the use of my lungs and hopefully show me how to get more exercise into my day without stressing out my lungs.
He did notice that I have been using a solution for my nebulizer the contains Ipratoplum Bromide along with Albuterol Sulfate. The Iprotoplum Bromide should not be used with Sprivia which is my wonder drug. (changed my life in 2011) It dries out the lungs to much. So that could be part of my issue.
So he was going to order me the solution with just the Albuterol. Unfortunately that order hasn't been placed yet and I've already called once on it.
My cardiologist appointment went okay also but just like the pulmonary doctor there were issues to deal with after my appointment. I don't understand the lack of performance that I encounter these days everywhere I go.
So he doesn't want to run any tests yet, the reason being that my previous cardiologist has not sent over my files yet even though we sent the request two months ago. So I had to call them to see what was up. They have the paperwork, so I went over all the details as to the doctor and the fax number. The woman I talked to said she was going to make a copy and put it on the desk of the person in charge of doing that so we shall see.
He changed the dose on two of my medications however their was an issue with one of them when I received it in the mail. I take 120 mg of a medication twice a day. He wanted to increase the dose. I'm not sure if when he saw that I take 120 mg that he didn't notice that it was twice a day. The prescription came in at 240 mg once a day. That is not an increase!
So I stopped there after bowling to explain to one of the girls the issue with the prescription. I told her that I'm willing to try 180 mg twice a day. Told her when I was originally put on this medication the 240 mg made me very lethargic so we went to twice a day.
So she calls me later and says the doctor approved the 180 once a day. WHAT!! I told her no, I now take 120 mg twice a day, it needs to be 180 mg twice a day. So she went back to the doctor and he okayed it. So we shall see how that one is when it arrives.
I'm not suppose to have any stress in my life for both the A-Fib and the COPD yet they certainly know how to cause it! I should be my own doctor.
So enough of that. The reason PUSH came to me is that I haven't felt well since before Thanksgiving and that is why I didn't start decorating that weekend for Christmas. My decorations were not officially done until December 18th.
I realized after Christmas that if I PUSH myself I can actually accomplish more than I think I can do. I will often sit back and do nothing because I don't think I can. I'm not saying it was easy but I did it.
So when I was at the pulmonary doctor and he talked about the physical therapy he said the same word to me. He said "this is going to make you push harder." I already had the word push chosen and I told him about the fact that I realized when I was decorating for Christmas that if I pushed myself I was actually able to do more than I thought I could.
UPDATE: Since I wrote this post and scheduled it to post today I want you to know that my prescription was wrong again. I see the cardiologist on the 11th of February and he is definitely going to get an earful from me!!!
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