You get what you pay for

In the world of medicine, you don't always get what you pay for. Here at the Cleveland Clinic, we are definitely getting our money's worth! Both doctors we met with today spent at least a full hour with us, looking through my binder (which they appreciated, yea!) and asking questions. Dr. Su, the GI doc, saw us right away even though we were 45 minutes early for our appointment. She is ordering a few tests, showed me a few exercises to stretch out my stomach for when it hurts, and wants to hear what the cardiac docs have to say. There are four possible causes of my stomach pain. I don't remember all of them and my notes are in the car, but one was that there may not be enough oxygen getting to my digestive organs causing them to not work correctly. Another is that my gall bladder opening may have closed up over the last few years (removed in'06) and that is somehow slowing down my system; I forget the other two. Anyway, the cardiac EP doctor spoke with me for an hour and determined that I have an autonomic nervous system disorder and was able to get me in to see Dr. Fouad tomorrow! She specializes in syncopy and autonomic nervous system disorders, and is the doctor I tried to get an appointment with originally (but couldn't see until Feb 23!). Thus, we are staying another night in Cleveland so that we can see this fantastic doctor. My appointment is at 1:15pm, but I am supposed to arrive early in case she wants to run tests before seeing me. Whatever these doctors are charging, they are well worth every penny. I feel like they are more than willing to get to the bottom of this once and for all and I am so thankful! Please pray for my appointment tomorrow and safe travels. Also continue to pray for Troy and Alicia. We saw them again today and they were both struggling. Troy was in a lot of pain and Alicia was looking weary as well. Here is a link to their blog: http://thefloorfour.blogspot.com