worth it?

So as you may recall when my family went to Island Park I had some pretty wicked stomach pain/acid freak-out/wanting to die episodes. Well 10 days ago I met with my gastroenterologist to discuss this thing my body kept doing, I haven't had a full attack since our trip but plenty of little ones that have made life oh so interesting. After discussing things and ruling out Gallbladder problems since I don't have one the inevitable happened I had to schedule an upper endoscopy :(

I've had one of these before and don't really remember it being terrible, so I figured if it helps with the pain I'll go for it. After waiting in the freezing office for an hour in a gown they finally wheeled me back to procedure room where I quickly spoke with the doctor & they gave me "go to sleep" meds in my iv. I don't really have a memory of what happened after that, a few things stuck in my head but most floated away on the anesthesia cloud. My Mom so kindly came down to take me since Mark had to work and you aren't allowed to drive home with anesthesia in your system which I find odd.! She tried to catch me up on what had happened. The scope didn't find any reason for the pain so they took some biopsy's looking for an infection or something & also stretched my esophagus. You are thinking that doesn't sound very pleasant, you are correct! I am just really glad for cepacol spray or I am pretty sure I wouldn't have slept at all last night. I tried to find a picture of dilation of the esophagus but they were all pretty graphic & not I didn't want to make anyone sick so just imagine a balloon going down your throat & stretching it out.

Apparently even on anesthesia I try to work because when I was waking up I kept trying to talk to my dr. I work for about patients & asking my nurse about influenza shots. There was also a conversation about Spanish, I am really glad they see people come out of anesthesia everyday or I'd be really embarrassed for who knows what all I said. But I am wondering if your mind can't even stop working when you are out cold, does that mean you work to hard & need a break?

Well I am off to work for another very long day, should be interesting since I can't actually talk or swallow anything but popsicles so we'll see how the day goes!
FYI this isn't a feel bad for me post I just want to share my yesterday.