Doctors @ MindSay

So Amanda loves her Reader's Digest and I'll admit I'm reading it, too. Some of that stuff actually isn't too bad. But an article in the most recent one caught my eye.

It's something about "things doctors would never tell you." I haven't finished it because I am glad doctor's don't tell us this stuff. If mine ever did, I'd have a few choice words for him, too. So far what I have gotten from this article is a list of things that piss doctors off about patients.

So, since there is always two sides to every story, let's see the list of things that piss off patients about doctors. Feel free to add your own! And of course, this list is trunkated... the "Reader's Digest Version," if you will.

1. I have an appointment for 1:30 but am not called into the office until 2:30, where I sit until 3:00 or longer. I know you're busy. But guess what? So am I!!! This was suppossed to be my lunch hour.

2. I walk into an ER or urgent care with a large wound on my wrist that is bleeding heavily and I wait four hours in the waiting room. Then I get yelled at by a nurse when I get into the room for "not pointing out how badly you were bleeding." Considering I had to wipe down the counter and the janitor has to bring out a bucket after being called by the desk nurse, and when asked my reason for visiting I even said, "I need stitches on a wrist wound that is still bleeding heavily" I figured someone noticed. Yes, this has happened to me.

3. I come to you with a real concern and you pass it off as nothing, only to tell me months later when it's gotten out of control that it is something serious because you wouldn't even glance at it originally.

4. You write a prescription with a notation on it forbidding generics, even though I explain I am on a seriously limited income and cannot afford anything but the generics.

5. I come in with a chest cold and you tell me to take Advil Cold and Sinus. I come back for a check up and my blood pressure is high, at which point you tell me I shouldn't ever take Advil Cold and Sinus.

6. My sister goes to you because she can't lose weight and is gaining out of control. You tell her, repeatedly, that she needs to eat less and excersise more, even after she tells you she only eats lunch and jogs four miles a day. Every time she comes into your office you embarrass her about her weight in some attempt to make her lose it and won't listen when she explains her issues. Six years later something pops up in a test saying her thyroid is abnormal. You run tests and give treatment, at which time she drops weight at a record speed and it stays off.

7. You are forever throwing around your holier than thou attitude.

8. You treat hospital patients like cows going to slaughter.

9. Knowing my buddy is in too much pain to argue, you spend an hour standing over his hospital bed telling him everything that is wrong with the military. And you blame him and call him a "dumb sheep" for losing his leg to an IED in Iraq. The you admit you have never spent a day in the military yourself.

10. You spend thirty minutes lecturing me about the evils of smoking, and 15 minutes later I catch you lighting up in the parking lot.

11. You crack jokes while making me "turn my head and cough." And men, you know what that is.

12. You hit on my mother. While I'm standing there. And you know she's married. To my father.

As I said, feel free to add your own!

So today and yesterday were fun.  Yesterday was a doctors appt for me and Karma.  I have 3 different pills I'm supposed to use now.  They were vampires and took my blood.  I hate doing that.  Karma got her shot.  Getting her to the doctor was a pain.  They weren't there. I ended up taking her to the groomers and leaving her there.  She threw herself on the floor lol.  And wouldn't go back there.  Its really good that like all of Petsmart knows her haha.  So yes, left her at the groomers who took her to the vet.  Then I went to my appt.  Got checked out, my intestines or whatever feel like they're swollen...so thats not good.  So yeah they're running all these tests.  And I'll go back in about 2 weeks.  The meds are making me really sick today though...

But I've gotten to see Kevin today and yesterday and it was really nice. And he was a great guy and went out to dinner both nights with me.  One with Ashley, thank goodness he was there, and then tonight with my fam....who's insane. anyways feeling sick i'll write more later.

Some days start weird and some evolve that way. Today was one of those. (see what I did there? I didn't tell you which kind it was did I?)

For years my doctor has told me to stop smoking, drink less, lose weight, take my blood pressure med's and get fit or I'd have a stroke or a heart attack. Well, it seems he's gone and had a heart attack. There is no justice ion the world. Here's a guy who saves lives for a living, works 18 hours a day, looks after himself and what's his just rewards? A heart attack. On the other hand, I help no one, do nothing of any real value and treat my body like someone else owns it and I'm as fit as a bull. Well, except that my BP is like 180/120 but, my point is there really is no justice.

So that was not the end of the weirdness today. I got out of my car and walked to the parking meter to pay, when this random guy leans out of the car next to me and hands me a ticket, that's still valid for an hour! Go me.

Then, I went to the credit union (MECU) to apply for an overdraft for the bar and instead of a wall of resistance, I was met with a swell of assistance and optimism. Not like the other banks at all.

Today was weird and wonderful, all at once. I have to pee in a jar - it's going to be strange, I haven't done that one before. Usually they just take a gallon of blood and tell me I'm fine. I'm not sure I can hand someone (a stranger to boot) a jar of my urine. It's . . . too intimate somehow.

weird.

An update on the life of me.

I got the townhouse we had put the application in.  Signing of the lease date is May 2nd.  YAY!  Less than one month away!  I go and put in our security deposit tomorrow.  So excited...

It's a georgeous 3 bed, 2.5 bath home.  2 stories.  Garage.  1500 square feet.  Water/Cable/Sewage/Trash all included.  Screened in lanai.  Gated community.  Pool right next to our place.  I'm so freakin' excited!!!

As for the doctors...I did hear back from the results of my biopsy.

Precancerous cells...

I've cried...a lot...just knowing that it is growing in me.  I know they caught it early.  Thank GOD they caught it early.  I go and see the doctor again next thursday.  I'm leaving work a little early to go.

Wish me luck...