3-Month Eval Recap

Well, my three-day-three-month-evaluation is over and done with. My appointments were held at brand spankin' new Moakley Center, which opened about a month ago. They are still working on some of the small details (such as getting furniture and pictures for the walls), but they are fully operational at this point. The new place is much larger, cleaner and more technologically advanced, but lacks the personality that the old clinic possessed. The doctors and staff like it; I guess that eventually I will learn to like it too!

As I predicted the other day, there were no surprises with this evaluation. Although all of my lab results won't be available until Friday, the results that have come in show nothing but good news. My blood chemistry has nearly recovered from the treatment, and to be honest, the numbers are actually better than they were before my treatment in August. I was told that my rate of recovery from treatment is above average for patients undergoing this treatment -- much less someone who has gone through it twice.

As well as I am doing, I am not off the drugs -- yet. My cholesterol and trigylceride levels have improved somewhat, moving from "ohmygod I can't count that high" to "very elevated". So I am back on the lipid medications (Niaspan and Tricor). And I eventually had to take some water pills yesterday morning, after three days of abstinence. I don't know where I am going to end up on my diuretics, as it has been a moving target lately. But I know that it is going down, baby.