Meeting the New Doctor
Quick update: Yesterday we met with the latest addition to my care team, a lipid specialist. This guy is thorough! We spent three hours with him going over my entire medical history, my family's medical history, possible diagnosis and which new tests he was ordering. Some of the new tests are being sent to Mayo Clinic because they have one of the few labs in the country that can process these specialized tests. Also doing some genetic testing. So we're back in the waiting game (at least six weeks for some of the tests). Overall we were very pleased with this new doctor. Hope he's the one to solve this mystery. Side note, I have been keeping a spreadsheet logging all the different blood tests since this began over a year ago. Today I logged the 100th different blood test. Not the 100th blood draw (way over 100 draws) but 100 totally different tests. This doesn't include all the PET, CT, MRI, and Ultrasound scans. Crazy.