Day seventy one

This is another medical one. A little bit of self-diagnosis. I am not medically trained, but I have qualifications in several other areas, so I will rely on my research abilities.

I was asked to submit a blood test (which I did on the 29th December). The hospital were looking for coeliac antibodies. They had finally got round to looking at the results of the gastroscopy that I had on the 28th July. I have just looked that up in my diary and I am surprised it was that long ago. It took until the 28th December for them to start looking at why my duodenal tract is flattened.

5months!

The first thing they look for is coeliac disease, and they do that by looking for coeliac antibodies in the blood (I have written this before).

I'm guessing the reason that - 2 weeks later - I don't have any results is because there are no coeliac antibodies in my blood.

So what is it then? And why don't they want to do further investigation, because I have been researching and I have discovered that flattened duodenal tract can cause abdominal pains! It can be fixed! There are antibiotics; there is surgery!

While I am still waiting for the results of the CT scan (27th December) I think I may have found the cause of the problem. Well, I have found the cause of the abdominal pains (I think) but not the cause of the flattened duodenal tract. That is for the doctors to figure out, but they won't let me make an appointment until the CT scan results come in.

And in the meantime I am still having disturbed sleep - I had a bad night last night, although I slept well the 2 nights before. I am still experience pain with nausea.

Do I go back to work and struggle, or do I stay off until I am "fit for work"?

I know what common sense says, but I'll have to see what the Methodist church decides.

My life really is in their hands!

Well, God's hands, but I think you know what I mean.