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The dreaded EGD is over, and I’ve posted the experience over at I’m Losing It. My throat is a little sore, and the funny thing is, the more time passes, the more sore my throat gets. I ate a cough drop earlier, so I should be good for a while. The good news is, the doctor did not see anything he felt needed to be biopsied (acid reflux can eventually cause esophageal cancer). The bad news is, they werent’ able to tell me what the doctor found, if anything. They’ll send me a letter to detail the findings, and of course, forward it to my family doctor to pass on to me as well.

But I am glad it is over. It wasn’t bad and if I was told I had to have it done again, at least I’d not be as nervous next time. But I’d rather not have it done again.

The rest of this week consists of running to pay the rent tomorrow before BFL leaves for her vacation, and then taking the bus to work each day and seeing who can give me a ride home each night. Yay.

I want a vacation and not one that involves having things run down my throat. I am having enough medical problems lately that I am seriously considering creating a blog just for them and my road back to health. Yes, I’m having enough of them. They aren’t as serious as cancer (I think) but then again, I’m not done being poked and prodded to find out what all is wrong with me.

But as far as taking a vacation goes, I would love to be able to go on cruises, bus trips, or just something that gets me out of town and off in my own little world for a little while. I’ve taken a trip to Texas, I’ve made trips back to Iowa for vacations twice, I’ve gone to California for vacations twice, I’ve gone to Disney Land once when I was little. I also went on a camping trip with the LDS church youth to Yankton, SD, and a temple trip with the LDS church to Chicago, IL. So I have gone a few places.

But I’d love to see Florida, New York, North Carolina (the heart and soul of NASCAR), Seattle, places like that. Places that you hear about for this or that reason, but ordinarily wouldn’t go to unless you either had someone who lived there to visit or had some reason other than just being a tourist. Note that I did not mention Hawaii. I don’t fly. So I do have places I’d like to travel. The issue is, getting the money to go.

Boy, today I didn’t have to worry about over stuffing myself on Pizza Ranch’s buffet. The reason? Well, I will tell you this, it definitely wasn’t due to my having taken the best diet pills! No it was due to something else entirely. I didn’t have any pizza.

You see, Pizza Ranch’s buffet is set up so that you can ask for a pizza that you like when you order the buffet. BFL and her mom like sauerkraut and candian bacon (nasty if you ask me) and I prefer the chicken or cheese alfredo pizzas. Well, they had a chicken alfredo w/ broccoli on thin crust on the buffet (like 2 slices) so I ordered a regular chicken alfredo w/out broccoli. The person taking the order says “oh the buffet ends in ten minutes, so I’ll have to ask you to just take the chicken alfredo pizza that’s on the buffet and pick the broccoli off.”

Excuse me? You honestly mean to tell me that you are refusing to make the pizza I’m asking for because you have one YOU feel is acceptable to ME already on the buffet? Yet BFL and her mom were allowed to order their pizza. Now here is the issue I had with it. I don’t like broccoli on my pizza. I can’t stand thin crust pizza. If the crust had been regular, I might have picked the broccoli off. However, that being said, the whole point here is – if someone who was allergic to broccoli had happened to be the one ordering it, they could NOT have simply picked it off. And there has been a big stink around our area about restaurants not being willing to make things to order for whatever reason, and getting in trouble for it due to allergens.

Now I could have been a butt and said I was allergic to broccoli, which I’m not. However, I was pretty miffed that I couldn’t order my pizza but my friends could order theirs, and theirs was one that if they didn’t take it all (they did, but still) very few other people would have taken it. I can see that customer service has taken a complete and utter dive.

I like to play video games. I don’t really care too much if they are on pc, playstation 2, playstation 3, or gamecube. I am not one for the wii. Bleh.

However, I am now strongly considering the wii, if only for the wii fit. I am in need of some serious exercise assistance as I am now once again struggling to lose weight. I am planning on (as soon as I’m used to my new shoes) doing some walking, but still, some other exercises would be good. Obviously, I’m a bit too large to actually use the wii fit, but if it could make the exercise a bit more fun, that might just help motivate me.

Goddess knows, I need motivation.

There is nothing fun or amusing about being told by your doctor that he won’t treat your heartburn anymore. There is nothing fun or amusing about being told that you have to have a scope run down your esophagus, regardless of your extreme gag reflex and extreme aversion to the needles used to insert an IV. There is also nothing fun about realizing that you need the treatment for the heartburn bad enough that you’ll go through with it even though you don’t want to.

No, my doctor did not ask me to have it done. He told me to have it done. He asked which hospital I prefer (we have 2) and then made the appointment for the EGD. No, I have no idea what EGD stands for, just that it’s a scope with a camera attached to it run down my esophagus. My boss says she was put completely out when they did hers. I hope they do the same for me. If they don’t, it will not be pretty.

In other news, it is also not fun when you wear a jewelry set you plan on selling to attract attention to it and promptly realize that you’ve lost the bracelet to the set. Now I have to find the money to purchase the beads needed to make the bracelet again. Lovely.