A three band-aid day

Lots of stuff going on right now, yesterday I had an appt with a geneticist down at the county hospital to discuss the MEN 1 stuff and to answer some questions that Dr. Skinner couldn't really answer for Laurie and I.  It was a very interesting appointment.  Laurie couldn't be there with me because her schedule is all wacky while she is teaching and not doing the academic coach thing.  (They were taking the boys up for a hike and she went up with them.)  The doc was really sweet to me and answered all our questions. :)  She agrees with my endo doc that I probably have MEN 1 and we're going through all the genetic testing for that right now.  It takes 2-8 weeks to get any results.  Even if the test comes back negative, I'll be retested every year.  The test is only 80% accurate, so I still might have it even without a positive test result.  On a totally unrelated genetic disease, we wanted her opinion about the origin of my POTS.  She AGREED with Laurie's diagnoses of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome for me.  We now know that the onset of the POTS was not random but built into my DNA.  It also explains a lot of what is going on with my body (ex. spraining my ankle walking).  So I managed to get not one but two genetic diseases!  Makes a lot of sense in the big picture.  Anyways, all of this is good news, even if I got really really tired from spending half the day in the dr's office.  To top it off, they stuck me 3 times to get the blood necessary for the genetic testing. :( very sad!  One of the sticks the vein blew and then blood clotted around the needle and it hurt like hell.  My poor hand is still swollen and black and blue and needing to be iced.  I should go do that now, actually...  Spinning last night while Laurie took her class aggravated it.