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May 13, 2004
An Asprin a Day...
I visited the gastroenterology department at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital last week to meet with a clinical oncologist who works with the genetic counsellor to determine who needs screening. It's a pretty expensive process, so there have to be compelling reasons to convince the insurance companies to ante up the cash.
Part of his advice to me was to start taking 1 baby asprin and 1g of Folic Acid a day. Apparently these two substances have been known to reduce the formation of polyps (which are the precursors to most tumours).
He also said that I should get genetic screening done, and is having his office manager fill out copious amounts of paperwork on me to apply for it. The insurance company will probably say, "No," at which point I have to start harassing them. Fortunately, I'm good at harassment! ;)
In other news, it was time to renew my passport, so I now have a picture of myself with the short short 'do on it. Hopefully the new passport will arrive before it's time for me to head to Toronto for the July 4th weekend, because otherwise I'm sure it'll be a nightmare to get my butt back into the States.
Plus, I need to get it back early enough to take it to downtown Boston and get it stamped stating that my conditional permanent residency is extended (again). I guess the US Immigration folks are super backed up, and are having trouble getting to the people applying to have conditions removed from their green cards. Green cards are conditional until you've been married for 2 years, then you apply to have the conditions removed. So last year, I applied, and they gave me a letter saying they're backed up, and I get a year extension. That year is almost up. It's really a pain.
We have a new couch - and you can see pictures of it, and of my new short hair, and of our cat. The psychic vampire couch is in pieces in the upstairs hallway while I figure out exactly where everything is going to go. :)
Posted by Nicole at May 13, 2004 04:36 PM