Oh, Robyn. I am sorry to hear about your friend. I hope that her passing was quiet and peaceful, though.
I saw the surgeon today, and she does not want to do gallbladder surgery. She says I just don't have the symptoms that would require it to be removed. She's right, I don't except for the nausea and vomiting. She had another physician that is a part of the hospital she is with come down and meet me because he has an interest in endocrinology, and he said he saw a lot of physical symptoms of Cushings. But I've had lots of tests for that: the only thing that I haven't had done is a head CT/MRI. I don't EVER want another MRI. The CT scans aren't too bad.
They also suggested a complete genetic work-up to make sure there isn't anything there... but they don't think so because it would have shown up much sooner than it did. So, she is going to try and get me an appointment with a regular endocrinologist that is also with her hospital... My endocrinologist that I see now is a reproductive endocrinologist. Her training is really as a GYN, with a fellowship in infertility and reproductive endocrinology. She has done a lot for me that she shouldn't have had to do, because we haven't been able to get a regular endocrinologist to help me or take me as a patient. We've tried twice: once down in VA... and that doctor did the initial tests for Cushings and other endocrine disorders, but they were all negative. He put me on glucophage, as well, but when that made me so sick, he released me back to the reproductive endocrinologist. The second one was the one I've mentioned at the hospital that runs the children's hospital that I work for, and talked to my employer without my permission (yea, they talked to themselves, basically!) and never returned my phone calls.
So, I said I'd see this other endocrinologist. We'll see where that goes.
On school stuff: I don't WANT ANY MORE NEW STUDENTS! NO MORE! NONE! PLEASE!
We finally got the 50 we had settled into the new school year, and these new ones are just throwing things out of whack. I had one of my new kids who started last week elope from my classroom the last 2 days: today he did it twice in one day. Yesterday and the first time today, he hid in the stairwell. I don't do stairs very well: I can't go down at all, but I can go up slowly. I chased after the little brat today. After resource brought him back to class he lasted about 5 minutes. I went to get his work folder and he started telling me to "get off his folder" and not touch his stuff. I explained that I was getting his work. He didn't like that and started cursing me out. He had written all kinds of curse words over his folder. We asked him to go to resource again, and he flew out of the room and ran down the hall cursing the whole way. He was so loud that the lead teacher of the more restrictive program came down the hall (he thought it was one of HIS kids, because typically only his students act that way!). In fact, he tried to football tackle me in the hallway and kept screaming "
the free world!" before they finally got him in the resource room.
That was 3rd period. 1st period I had one do a major emotional meltdown because he has been bringing his breakfast to class. For a long while, probably 2 weeks, he was just fine with it... but now he is perseverating on having the food nearby. And won't finish or throw it away. So, we have requested he not bring his breakfast with him anymore. He started crying and whining and finished up by banging his head very hard on the table. So I took him to resource. It was supposed to be self-help, because he was hurting himself. But he ran away from me in the hallway and screamed about how he hated me, and he hated my pants (
), so another staff had to help me escort him.
I'm SOOOOO glad its Friday! The kids I teach swimming to aren't that bad!
Maybe we should start a "2nd quarter" edition? Since its not 'back to school' anymore.