From Feb. 15 - re-posting

Okay, so the whole getting healthier thing - not going so well. I don't know why I can't seem to set my mind to it. I'm sort of trying, but then sabotaging myself too. Plus, right now I have some kind of cold/allergy/sinus crud, so I really don't feel so good. I finally rejoined the gym Monday and Tuesday I started feeling bad, so I haven't even been to work out yet.

My last doctor's appointment went well, they said everything was all clear, chest x-ray (just an annual one to have on file, not for any particular reason) looked good, CA-125 was 2.3, so well within the normal range which is up to 35. Then, the next day, the nurse calls. "Don't worry about it, but there's something on the x-ray, may not be anything, may just be the machine, but when you come back in three months, do another one." Okay, any nurses or doctors who stumble across this - DON'T DO THAT!! If the only thing you're going to do is wait three months and do it again, instead of letting me worry for three months, wait until I show up for the appointment and say, We were looking at your x-ray and there's something we want to take another look at - go downstairs and do another one for us, please. Then, two weeks later, on a Friday afternoon around 5:00, I look at my cell phone and realize I've missed a call from the doctor's office. Too late to call them back then, and they didn't leave a message. So I spend that weekend worrying that something else is wrong and waiting for Monday. They finally call back Monday, and it's just to say that my pap test was normal. Really, you couldn't just leave a message? And if you couldn't leave a message, did you have to call on a Friday? Just wait until Monday. That way, even if I missed the call Monday, I'd only be worried for one night, because believe me, I'd make sure I was near the phone all day Tuesday, and probably calling you if I hadn't heard anything by noon or so.

So, anyway, that's my medical related stress lately. Then, to top it off, my cat, Samantha, goes missing about two weeks ago. I kept thinking she'd just come back, like she did once before, but after a week, that started looking less likely. Then today, as I'm leaving the neighborhood to go run some errands before work, I notice an animal control vehicle coming into the neighborhood, a police car right outside the neighborhood, three more police cars in the park next to the neighborhood, and what might have been another animal control truck heading down the walking path that runs through the park right behind the neighborhood. I don't know what they're after, but I think it really doesn't look good for Samantha, if there's something that needs that much manpower to get it. I so want to know what the heck's going on, but I have no idea how to find out.