crazy news

What a crazy week this has been so far.  It's only Wednesday & it feels like it should be Friday.

It also seems like it's been weeks since I gave my 2 weeks notice at work... but it's only been 2 days.

I've been absolutely swamped at work trying to get things in order & put together a "Reference Manual" for my future replacement... whom ever that might be.  I'm a very detailed person & I don't have much time left to get it all in order & in place like I think it should be.

So I went to the weight clinic yesterday to start getting back on track again & lose some weight.  They did blood work, I sat thru a seminar thing & visited with the dr... a 2 & 1/2 hour process.  I'm excited about the weather starting to get warmer so I can be outside & be more active.  I'm looking forward to losing some weight again & being able to fit back into clothes that I have in the closet.

The clinic called today to inform me that they got my blood work results back & my AST/ALT numbers were to high & told me I should make an appointment with my regular dr to get some more tests ran.  Just great.  Just great I tell ya.  Intially I felt a little weak & was hoping that I was having a daytime-nightmere of some sort, but that wasn't the case.  It was real.  I called the Indian Clinic to make an appointment to get some more blood work done & hopefully get this figured out asap.

Of course I had no clue what AST/ALT meant when they told me so I asked & they said it was the liver.  Yep, that freaked me out just a little.  So I looked it up online earlier, cause I wanted to know a little more info.

Aspartate Transaminase (AST)
It is raised in acute liver damage. It is also present in red blood cells and cardiac muscle, skeletal muscle, and kidney and brain tissue, and may be elevated due to damage to those sources as well.

Alanine Transaminase (ALT)
Significantly elevated levels of ALT often suggest the existence of other medical problems such as viral hepatitis, congestive heart failure, liver damage, biliary duct problems, infectious mononucleosis, or myopathy. For this reason, ALT is commonly used as a way of screening for liver problems. However, elevated levels of ALT do not automatically mean that medical problems exist. Fluctuation of ALT levels is normal over the course of the day, and ALT levels can also increase in response to strenuous physical exercise.

I was hoping that I would find something positive to read, but nope.  I'm thinking their blood tests were wrong.  Maybe the person that was doing the testing was in training & screwed something up.  Hey it could happen.  Mistakes happen all the time.  Ya never know.  I will feel better once I get an appointment with the Indian Clinic & get this figured out.  They're supposed to call me back tomorrow so we can get something scheduled, so we'll see.

If it's not one thing, it's always something else, isn't it?  Geez.