As I had said previously, I already had my standard appointment with Dr. Gordon Smith. M.D., an internal medicine doctor with IHC scheduled for Friday 4/16. I had started seeing him for my blood pressure several years ago when we were in the middle of our commuting period and saw no reason to stop going to him. I think he takes good care of me and the medicine he prescribed has always worked.
I met with him and explained what I had been through, the hospital stay, the diagnosis, the anemia and the respiratory issues that Centennial Hills had treated me for. I had requested Centennial Hills to transmit my records to him so that he could review them, but of course they hadn't made it to him yet, so I didn't have access to everything they said about me. I thought it was a good visit and as always, at the end of the visit he sent me across the hall to give blood.
We had some things to do in St. George and so didn't hurry to get back to Vegas. Later that afternoon Dr. Smith called me personally, which I guess should have triggered something in my brain, but it really didn't. He commented that the blood had come back with very high Protein levels that concerned him and that he would be running more tests on that blood to find out where the protein was coming from. He said they would know more on Monday 4/19. I didn't want to put a damper on the weekend, and I didn't really have anything else to go on, so I just attributed to to the fact that he didn't have my inpatient records from Centennial Hills yet to give him the rest of the story.
We finished our business in St. George and went back to Vegas for the weekend, and a few more days of innocence.
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