OK I survived and now its another 3 weeks for the results.  LOL.  I knew I would survive the test even if it makes me nervous and I'm terrified of waking with a stoma. That's always my fear when they do anything with my abdomen. I was more scared of the prep and who wouldn't be. I don't know a single person that likes being turned into an experimental new shuttle for NASA. It wasn't that bad though. They gave me something new and granted it did evacuate my entire digestive tract it seemed to be a much gentler process.

 

 I have been flaring back to back since last Friday. My youngest is also flaring. SO much so that he didn't even want his birthday cake! The fact that our abdominal flares last more than the 12 to 72 hours that a typical FMF attack lasts just compounds my thought of Behcet's.  Its time to start the symptom journals again. I know it should be at least every 4 months that I journal someone but it is just aggravating and I'm stubborn. the fact that it would just help me seems to escape my mind some days.

 

Oh... back to the biopsies. The doc says that everything she could see looks perfectly healthy. Anything she will find must be found in the biopsies because visually at lease there are no signs of Crohn's disease, ulcers, or polyps. I don't like her wishy-washy answers to questions like: how many biopsies? "several" and "more than ten" were her answers. then: You are doing the Congo Red test right? yes yes were checking everything.. which was said rather 'sick of hearing the question" rather than reassuring. So if there is no Congo test I will upset to say the very very least.

YEA! today I got the financial green light to schedule my oral surgery! If they can do the impressions this week my surgery will be the week of July 22. If they cant do them until next week then the oral surgery is the week of the 29th. School starts August 18th so that cuts the trip to Kentucky down to 14-16 OR 10-12 days. More if I think I can handle traveling earlier.

 

I am just so excited to get my teeth fixed. This is truly a dream come true!

 

Josh and I are going to do some pictures afterwards. Sounds like so much fun!