No UTI. He is sending the sample out to be cultured tho. Said that some of the symptoms might be neurogenic bladder. (great...). Oh, and when he was palpating my abdomen because I've had some uncomfortable sensations there, he saw a mole on my stomach that he thinks needs to be removed. Said it looks a bit suspicious. He also looked at a big red spot on my stomach, said it looked like a pimple. I've never had a zit on my stomach. It's a big red spot tho. I noticed it the other day and freaked out. It's not as icky looking as it was the other day tho. At least he didn't think that was something to worry about.

I didn't ask him if my weird symptoms in the legs was transverse myelitis. Because I noticed if I use big words like that, doctors always think I've been googling. So, I just tell them in little words. Said I'd have to go see my neuro for that.

He did make me feel a little better. Said that while it might be distressing to me because I'm the one experiencing everything, he said that looking at me, things going on didn't look that bad to him from a medical view. Told me to relax, go see the neuro and the physiatrist.

Spent a little while talking about some stuff with him. Told him how I've lost all my doctors. I need to replace him. He told me that when I find a possible doctor, to call him up and ask him if he knows that particular doctor and he can tell me if the new doctor would be a good one or not.

Told me why I lost my doctors. The largest association of doctors in Omaha is a group called Alegent. Alegent didn't want to give a discount to my particular insurance company on some things. Another smaller group, called Methodist said they'd give the insurance company a discount. So that insurance company made Methodist a tier 1, and made Alegent tier 2. Which is what made my insurance with Alegent "out of network".

So now, because of that I have to either go downtown, to midtown, or find the one or two family practice doctors that might have their own clinics.

It's so freaking inconvenient to me. I have a perfectly good group of doctors that I used to be able to go to that's five minutes from my house that I can no longer use. Now I have to drive downtown where it's hard to find parking, and everything is a major walk to get from the car into a doctor's office.

I almost started crying in the doctor's office because I'm so stressed out by everything.

Oh, while I was at the doctor's office and still out in the waiting room, my physiatrist called me. (the actual doctor, not just a nurse). I'd called him the other day because I want to get hand controls for my car. He was calling me back to tell me what I need to do. I have to have my eye doctor send him something saying that my eyes are ok to drive. (conveniently I already have an eye appointment scheduled on monday) Then I have to get evaluated. If all that is ok, then I can let my dashboard on my car get chopped up to put in hand controls. (that's the part that I don't like. Cutting my car up to put them in)

And then I asked the physiatrist about getting the Bioness electronic thingamajig for the drop foot. Altho, I'm wondering if I should wait on that because I lost the physiatrist in the insurance fiasco. (maybe I can get the other brand of electronic thingamajig that I was more intrigued with if I get it from another physiatrist?).

Since I have to go to the physiatrist before I do the hand controls thing, I'm going to make sure that the physiatrist knows about the walking issues and increased numbness and unsteadiness. Maybe I'll end up with another brace on my other leg.