Seems I've fallen through the cracks.

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In Vt, they only wanted to talk about the next operation. Here, they only wanted to send me onto the next Dr over there. (Here, Plattsburgh, NY; There, Burlington, VT). So I'm recovering on my own. Friday will be two weeks and I'm supposed to be mostly recovered by then. Until yesterday, I was just as bloated and swollen as I was a couple days after the operation. My Mom was like that. They put drainage tubes in her and upped her diuretics (water pills). So since in 3 days I'm supposed to be able to go back to exercising, it's time to get going. According to Homeopathic Medicine, Arnica Montana, a plant, is supposed to help with swelling. Got some. Yesterday was my first day on it. Things are breaking up and dispersing already. Package says if swelling isn't gone in 3 days, consult a Dr. Right. So I guess I'd better be better by then. They asked me all kinds of questions in VT on Monday. They asked me about pain. I said none right now, but if flares. What level are the flares? 4 sometimes and 8 others. She could only put one number in the machine, so she put 6. Didn't ask how I was managing or controling my pain. Just moved right on to the next questions. She asked if I had a history of depression, I said, "Getting there." She said, "Oh good, a sense of humor." She finished up her questions and left. I wonder how many people killed themselves after hearing all the things that Drs. want to do with their bodies and they couldn't even tell anyone, not even by hinting that they were depressed. Wow! The Doctor told me the results that he received from my other Dr. I tried to talk about things that were bothering me and I hoped he would do a physical exam. Nothing. Just after the review of the documentation, went on to the next operation. Told him I thought I should heal up from the last one. He said I had time with the two months of chemo. I told him that chemo weakens people. He agreed, but thought the chemo was necessary in case there was any other cancer anywhere. Also buys me time to heal. So I got that the two most important things are the next operation and filling in computer screens. How much pain and how I'm controling it from the last operation, immaterial for this discussion. Depression was just a question on the screen. My last operation, no checking of my body to see how that went. No pulse, no bloodpressure despite them asking me about history of BP which I told them I had. My history, who cares, just stuff to fill in on a screen. Never asked me if I was having any complications from the last operation. Tried to tell him, but it wasn't on his agenda, so he moved right on to the next thing he had to say. So here I am. Thank goodness my sister-n-law bought me a homeopathic medicine book for Christmas. Looked up swelling after surgery in the back part and there it was, Arnica Montana. Arnica for short. What do patients that aren't their own Dr. do?