Peg Ostrander
Dr. Raghavan
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53 records, oldest first2011
Jan 8
2018
May 15
STOPPED August 2023 after five years (started May 2018). Dr. Raghavan calls it… · Peg Ostrander
STOPPED August 2023 after five years (started May 2018). Dr. Raghavan calls it a drug holiday. Bone density was rechecked in August 2025 and is holding.
Jun 29
Dr. Niemczyk saw his last patient today. Open house at the office from three to…
…five, and the waiting room so full that people stood in the parking lot.
Twenty-nine years. He told R. the truth about his sugar, and sat with me in the spring of 2014 and did not press. When my turn came in the line I found I had prepared nothing. He took my hand and said, "Margaret. Take your calcium." He is going…
Jul 26
First appointment with Dr. Raghavan, 10:20 (mine)
Aug 20
For Dr. Raghavan tomorrow, 10:20, Arbor Bluff Clinic West. First visit.
Take: the list of medicines with doses; the dates (shingles 2013, biopsy 2016, bone scan April 2018); the bottle of calcium.
Ask:
1. Did the whole chart come over from Dr. Niemczyk's office, or only a summary?
2. The alendronate: who orders the next bone scan, and when?
3. Thyroid: when was it last checked?
4. Shingl…
Aug 21
My first appointment with Dr. Raghavan. She ran twenty-five minutes late. She i…
…s perhaps forty-five, small and quick, and she looks at you while you talk rather than at the screen. She had read the whole chart, thirty years of it, including Dr. Niemczyk's handwriting. She asked about the shingles. She asked about Mom. She changed nothing. I like her.
Aug 24
First visit with Dr. Sunita Raghavan at Arbor Bluff Clinic West, now that Dr. N…
…iemczyk has retired. She had read the whole chart. BP 126/78, weight 148. No changes to anything. I like her.
Aug 28
Ray's first visit with Dr. Raghavan, this morning, done as his Welcome to Medic…
…are examination.
A1c 7.3. BP 136/84. Weight 212. EKG normal.
She did not change the metformin. Labs again in January.
Aug 29
Ray's first visit with Dr. Raghavan, done as his Welcome to Medicare exam. A1c…
…7.3, BP 136/84, weight 212. EKG normal. She wants him back in January with labs.
2019
Jan 16
Ray: A1c 7.8. Dr. Raghavan has raised the metformin to 1000 mg twice a day, wit…
…h breakfast and supper. New bottles; the 500s are to be used up two at a time.
She wants the number checked again in June.
Jan 16
R.'s sugar is up. The number from yesterday's labs is the highest he has had, a…
…nd Dr. Raghavan has raised the metformin. "The holidays," he told her. She said, "Which ones?"
I think it is Gus. He walked two miles a day behind that dog for thirteen years, and since October he has walked to the garage.
We leave for Gulf Shores on Saturday, two weeks earlier than last year.
Jan 18
Ray. A1c 7.8, the highest it has been (the holidays, he says). Dr. Raghavan rai…
…sed the metformin to 1000 mg twice a day. Recheck in June.
Jan 22
Current, since January 2019, when his A1c reached 7.8. Dr. Raghavan. · Ray
Current, since January 2019, when his A1c reached 7.8. Dr. Raghavan.
Feb 19
Dr. Rasmusson, this morning. Surgery is Thursday the 21st, check in at 7:00.
- Does it need surgery? Yes. The pieces have shifted and will not heal straight in a cast.
- What exactly? A plate on the palm side, held with screws. About an hour.
- Awake? A nerve block for the whole arm, and something to make me drowsy. Home the same day.
- Does the plate come out? Only if it bothers me.
- How lon…
Mar 18
Current. Raised from 50 mcg in March 2019 when my TSH came back 5.8. Dr. Raghav… · Peg Ostrander
Current. Raised from 50 mcg in March 2019 when my TSH came back 5.8. Dr. Raghavan. Half an hour before coffee, and four hours away from the calcium.
Mar 20
Thyroid: TSH 5.8, which is high. Dr. Raghavan has raised the levothyroxine from…
…50 to 75 mcg as of yesterday. New Rx at Heron Lane; the 50s are finished.
Blood again on May 21.
(May 21: TSH 2.3. It stays at 75.)
Mar 21
TSH 5.8 on the labs drawn around the surgery. Dr. Raghavan raised the levothyro…
…xine from 50 to 75 mcg. Rechecked May 21 at 2.3, so 75 it is.
Sep 13
RAY: HOME FROM THE HOSPITAL. What the cardiology nurse told us at discharge thi…
…s noon, with the sheet in front of me.
WHAT WAS DONE (Thursday, September 12, Dr. Valdivia): one stent, in the artery down the front of the heart. The other arteries have mild disease and need nothing now. The heart muscle is pumping normally.
THE PILLS. Four are new. Ellen has them in the box with fourteen doors,…
2020
Feb 26
Ray, Dr. Raghavan, yesterday. BP 144/88 in the office. The lisinopril goes from…
…10 to 20 mg, one every morning. New bottle from Heron Lane today; the 10s may be finished two at a time.
Home readings twice a day for two weeks, then send her the list through the portal.
Feb 28
Ray, Dr. Raghavan. BP 144/88 in spite of everything. Lisinopril raised from 10…
…to 20 mg.
Mar 22
The rules, per Ellen, who gave them to us on the telephone. Posted on the refri…
…gerator. For as long as it takes.
1. Neither of us goes inside a store. Not Fenner's, not the hardware.
2. Groceries: Ellen orders them from Naperville and Fenner's delivers to the garage on Fridays. I send her the list Wednesday night.
3. What comes in a box sits in the garage a day. What must be cold is wiped and…
Apr 2
My Medicare began yesterday, April 1.
1. Parts A and B: the card came in February. It is in the bedroom safe and I carry a photocopy.
2. Supplement: Aldergate, Plan G. Plan F, which Ray has, is closed to anyone who became eligible this year or after. I pay the Part B deductible myself once a year and he does not.
3. Drug plan: Corliss Rx, the same as Ray'…
May 2
Going north tomorrow, to stay. What goes, in two vehicles:
The truck (Ray, the dog): the Bernina in its case, wedged with quilts; the cutting mat; two tubs of fabric; Ray's hand tools and the small lathe; Birdie's crate; the chest freezer's contents in three coolers.
The CR-V (me): Sigrid; 40 lb of flour and 10 of sugar; the pills, ninety days of everything for both of us, i…
Jun 16
Dr. Raghavan examined me this morning on the laptop, with a chickadee audible o…
…n her end. The blood was drawn beforehand at the clinic in Woodruff by a woman in a face shield. All the numbers are fine. R. had his turn after me. He held his ankles up to the camera when asked.
He has bought himself a laptop, for these calls and for the lake association's books. He is to be treasurer as of the me…
Jun 17
Yearly visits, both of us, yesterday, by video from the porch. How it was done:
- Blood drawn the week before at Sawbill Clinic in Woodruff, on Dr. Raghavan's order, which her office faxed. Fasting. Go at 7:30.
- The visit is through the Arbor Bluff portal on the laptop. Log in ten minutes early.
- Have ready: the list of medicines, the home blood pressure readings, a scale reading, and (Ray) the…
Jun 18
Annual visit, put off from April by the pandemic and done by video from the cab…
…in, with the blood drawn at Sawbill Clinic. TSH 1.9, LDL 98. Dr. Raghavan will do the Welcome to Medicare exam in person when she can.
2021
Apr 28
My wellness visit yesterday. Blood pressure 142/88, and 138/86 when she took it…
…again herself. Weight 152.
No pill on two readings in an office. I am to take it at home, morning and evening, for a month, and send her the list.
Apr 28
Annual wellness visit, Dr. Raghavan, in person again. BP 142/88, and 138/86 whe…
…n she took it again. She wants home readings morning and evening for a month. Weight 152.
Jun 10
Pneumonia, Pneumovax 23. Dr. Raghavan says that completes the pneumonia series.
Nov 10
Blood pressure: Dr. Raghavan yesterday. Six weeks of my own readings came to an…
…average of 144 over 86.
Amlodipine 5 mg, one every morning. Keep taking readings, three mornings a week, and bring the list in April.
2022
Jan 10
Ray tested positive for COVID at home, two days after coffee hour at church. Co…
…ugh and aches for four days. Because of the stent and the diabetes Dr. Raghavan prescribed Paxlovid; the atorvastatin was held for those five days.
Jan 12
We have it. R. tested on Saturday, two days after coffee hour, and I on Tuesday…
…, after three days of sleeping in Kate's room with the door shut.
He has the cough and the aches and is on the antiviral, five days, by Dr. Raghavan's order, because of the heart and the sugar; one of his other pills is stopped while he takes it. I have a throat like a rasp and a fever that arrives at four in the af…
Jan 12
COVID, positive home test, three days after Ray's. Sore throat, fever to 100.8…
…for two days, tired for ten. Dr. Raghavan's nurse said no antiviral for me and to call if my breathing changed. It did not.
Jan 16
COVID, both of us. The dates.
Ray:
- Thursday, Jan. 6: coffee hour at church.
- Saturday, Jan. 8: cough, aches. Positive on the home test at 10 a.m.
- Dr. Raghavan's nurse the same day: the antiviral (Paxlovid), five days, twice a day. His atorvastatin is STOPPED for those five days and started again the day after the last dose.
- Fever never over…
Apr 27
Annual wellness. BP 126/78 on the amlodipine. TSH 2.0, LDL 96. Dr. Raghavan loo…
…ked at the spot on my nose that will not heal and referred me to dermatology.
Aug 17
Ray, Dr. Rasmusson, yesterday, about the right knee. I went.
- The X-ray: bone on bone on the inside half of the joint. He showed us. Even I could see there is no gap left.
- The two cortisone shots this year (March and late June) each lasted about five weeks. A third would do no better.
- His words: "You can have this done when you are ready, and you will know when that is." R…
Oct 30
RAY'S KNEE: getting the house and ourselves ready. Surgery is Tuesday, November…
…8; check in at 5:45 in the morning. From the class on the 18th, the booklet, and Julia on the telephone.
THE HOUSE
- He sleeps in our own bed; the stairs are allowed. One step at a time, good leg up first, new leg down first. I sleep in Kate's old room for the first weeks.
- Rugs: every loose one is rolled up and in…
2023
Mar 15
Ray. A1c 7.4 after a winter on the couch. Dr. Raghavan left the metformin alone…
…and told him to get back to walking.
Apr 25
My physical was today, and I went, because it was on the calendar. Dr. Raghavan…
…asked how I was, and I told her about Saturday, and she put down the pen. She gave me the name of a grief group that meets on Wednesday evenings and said, "When you want it. If you want it." Everything else about me is as it was.
The funeral is Saturday at eleven, at Bethany Methodist. I have written four pages and…
Apr 28
Annual wellness. BP 124/76, weight 150. TSH 2.2. I told her about Lorraine, who…
…died on Saturday. Dr. Raghavan gave me the name of a grief group and did not push.
Jul 26
Bone density, yesterday. Spine -2.2, where it was -2.6 five years ago. Hip -1.9.
Per Dr. Raghavan: five years of alendronate is enough. I stop in August (she calls it a drug holiday).
- Last tablet: Sunday, August 6.
- Calcium and vitamin D go on exactly as before.
- Scan again in two years, summer 2025.
Jul 26
Bone density. Lumbar spine -2.2 (it was -2.6 in 2018), hip -1.9. Dr. Raghavan s…
…ays five years of alendronate is enough. Stop in August, rescan in two years.
Aug 20
Forty-six years. Ephraim, room 6, two nights. R. walked the whole shore trail o…
…n the new knee and timed himself.
I read "Tom Lake" on the porch swing in an afternoon, in cherry country, with a slice of pie. I would have telephoned Lorraine before I had finished the last page.
I keep both starters going. R. has labeled the jars: S, and S Sr.
Dr. Raghavan has taken me off the bone pill after f…
2025
Apr 30
Dr. Raghavan, April 29.
- Colonoscopy: due. Referred to Dr. Iverson; his office will telephone.
- A hearing test: referred to Kelsey Vanderhoef.
- Bone scan ordered for August.
- The ankles: that is the amlodipine. If shoes stop fitting, telephone.
BP 130/78, weight 151. TSH 2.4, LDL 97. No change to any of the three pills.
Aug 13
Bone density, yesterday, two years off the alendronate: spine -2.3, hip -1.9. S…
…table. Dr. Raghavan: stay off it; scan again in August 2027.
2026
Mar 19
Ray's six-month visit and labs, Dr. Raghavan. A1c 7.1. BP 128/76. Weight 205. K…
…idney function fine.
Mar 30
My physical, 10:20, fasting
Apr 29
Dr. Raghavan, yesterday.
1. Height. The nurse made me 5 feet 4 1/2. I have been 5 feet 5 since I was fourteen. - It is the spine, and it is expected. It does not change the bone plan: scan in August 2027.
2. Three years off the alendronate this summer. Still right? - Yes.
3. Tetanus: ten years since the last. - Given, left arm. (Ray is due as…
Apr 29
Physical yesterday. I am five feet four and a half. I have been five feet five…
…since I was fourteen, and I asked the nurse to do it again, and she did, kindly, and it was the same.
Everything else is in order. Dr. Raghavan asked what I was reading and wrote it on her hand. A tetanus shot in the left arm.
Apr 30
Annual wellness, Dr. Raghavan. BP 128/76, weight 151, height 5 ft 4 1/2 in (hal…
…f an inch gone). TSH 2.1, LDL 92, A1c 5.6. Tetanus booster given. Skin check in May; mammogram due in October.
Aug 21
Ray - labs 7:30, Dr. Raghavan at 8:40
Sep 16
R.'s number came back yesterday at 6.8, the best in two years, and Dr. Raghavan…
…told him so in those words. He has written it on the calendar and circled it.
The ramp crew finished for the season today. Seventy-one ramps since 2016, by the organizer's count. He came home with sawdust in his hearing aids.
An email arrived on Monday, in capital letters, to say that the warranty on my car is abou…
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Facts
| First name | Sunita |
|---|---|
| Last name | Raghavan |
| Nickname | Dr. Raghavan |
| Company | Arbor Bluff Clinic West |
| Job title | Internal Medicine (primary care) |
| Website | arborbluffhealth.example |
| Gender | Female |
| Comments | Primary care for both of us since August 2018. Nurse line is option 2. |
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- number: '6085550121' variant: Work
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- variant: Work street_address_1: 6120 Arbor Bluff Parkway city: Madison state: Wisconsin postal_code: '53719'
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q124 Who is our doctor, and what is the number? q038 Did I write down any dreams about Lorraine? q046 Did I ever go to that grief group after Lorraine died? q084 Is Ray up to date on his tetanus shot?