Where the heck did March go? I swear it was February two days ago.

And joy of joys, the weather in phoenix is being moody. One day sunny and ridiculously warm, the next windy as all get out with a chill in each gust. Part of me is almost excited for the dead, dry heat of June. At least it’s not snowing here (looking at you in Denver, Natalie).

Life is pretty much life. The most exciting thing that we’ve done in the last few weeks is probably rearranging the apartment. We just needed a change. I’ll share some pictures next week or sometime in April.

I want to promise that this isn’t going to turn into a blog where I drone on and on about my medical concerns and what not. However….

I had a doctor’s appointment on Monday.

Everything’s fine. Main take away: they want me to exercise more and cut a few things from my diet.

Mostly, I just needed to have a doctor who wouldn’t throw out colon cancer as THE answer to something with no tests pointing to that and a perfectly good explanation there for him to see.  Severe anemia in the middle of the mother of all periods… not actually surprising. Telling me that I have colon cancer is just asinine.

My new GP is at the Mayo Clinic and she is absolutely lovely. She’s given me some resources to help with my anxiety and panic attacks, set me up for a consult to have my lipoma taken out of my arm, and is referring me to a physical therapist who will hopefully help sort out  all of my knee issues.

The only downside of the appointment was the needles. I was due for a tetanus shot, and then got a blood draw… twice. I now know the name of my second phlebotomist and will ask for her by name ANY time I need to go back and visit the vampires again. The first one poked me three times, the third one, she dug, and left me with a dark spot that covers half of the back of my hand. You couldn’t even see the second one’s puncture mark after I pulled the gauze off.

Upside? I’m within the normal RBC range. No anemia this time!

Today, I get to see a plastic surgeon (for the lipoma). It is my hope, that because it is a pretty simple procedure, she’ll be able to take it out right then and there. I’ve got my neurology follow up in May and who knows about the physical therapy schedule.

Again, lots of doctor’s appointments on the horizon… this time though, I’m not so upset about it.