Excellent phone session with Shannon today. At the end she asked me, "do you feel better now?" yep. I always do when I talk about stuff with her. Even when it's hard stuff that is hard to get past the barrier to talk. She makes me feel better.

So. We decided that I should go back to Beverly, my GYN, and have her handle my IC difficulties. Even though she is in Columbia, she's a specialist, and Dr. Taylor isn't.

I like this plan a lot better. Beverly knows me- intimately, and knows my disease. And, right now, I am going to Columbia every two weeks. If I should need some sort of instillation treatment.

But, I don't need to think about that. I have a plan, a good one. I do need to figure out how to get through until Thursday with the pain and the bathroom trips and the constipation.

But, I will. And I'm going to see someone who will help me.

Shannon said she was proud of me. I'm working on being proud of me too.