...I hate going to see him. Mostly I'm going because all I need to renew my prescriptions for Rhinocort and Advair. Having sinusitis and asthma I need to see my doctor at least once a year. But it always ends up being so much more complicated.
So I ran out of everything and I've gone through like six boxes of Kleenex in one month because my nose won't stop bugging me and I'm starting to develop a cough. Great. My husband lectured me about how I always lecture him about the doctor and yet here I am, like an idiot, putting off the inevitable.
I made my appointment and went Friday. I hate going to the doctor. My doctor is a great doctor. Very nice, and very NOT PREACHY. He's Korean and he's cute in that "I'm forty-something but I look ten" kind of way. My mom, who used to go to him as well, once spent the entire visit asking him if he was really a doctor because he looked like he was too young to be a doctor.
Despite being Asian and incredibly polite, my doctor reminded exactly why I loathe going to the doctor even just for a routine "I need my prescriptions refilled so please just take my blood pressure, listen to me breathe and I'll be on my way" kind of visit. Because it's never that simple. He always wants blood work done and he always reminds me of the weight I should lose. Then he reminds me of the mammogram I need and the pap smear and this time around, a lung function test. Oh and by the way, I'm 50, so he notes. Which apparently means I should I should consider having a colonoscopy.
Okay, so going to the doctor has been so good for my ego. I'm fat, I'm old and I need even more tests than the usual round of crap I have to endure. Got it.
Well, the mammogram and pap has been scheduled as has the lung function test. I've done those before when I first developed asthma. The colonoscopy is being considered. Probably it will continue to be considered until I think I have a problem. No blood in the stool, no stomach cramping and no irregular bowel movements. Oh, so maybe I could do an occult blood test then. Having worked in specimen processing at the local lab, I know that means those three little cards upon which one has to place a small specimen of crap. *sigh*
Suddenly, 50 doesn't seem like it's no big deal. Let's not forget the FSH (follicle stimulating hormone) test because I'm getting to 'that age' where one is about to hit menopause.
The menopause I have mixed feelings about. It means no chance I could ever get pregnant. It also means I'm going to have hot flashes and be even bitchier than I already am during my period. Woo hoo.
So to recap. In the next couple of months, I'll be having my boobs pinched and twisted in that awful torture device masquerading as medical equipment to have a mammogram. I will have to be poked and prodded by my doctor who tries to make polite conversation as I lay there just knowing God is NOT a woman because if God was a woman, men would be undergoing this yearly embarrassment. I will have to be poked by the vampires at the lab for a blood sample and submit an occult blood card.
I know I should have a colonoscopy. But honestly, even with insurance there are co-pays and unless I suddenly start having problems in that area, I'm not letting anyone stick anything else up me besides a speculum. There's only so much a person can take and afford at one time.
[NP: John Trudell - Rant & Roll]
Sunday, October 18, 2009
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The trouble with my doctors' surgery (I can go to anyone in the practice) is you have to make an appointment on the morning of the day you want it for. The idea is to make sure there are always appointments available, 'cos they used to be booked up days in advance with no room for emergencies. The result is I rarely get to make an appointment. On days when I work, I am on my way in the car at the time the phones open. On days when I don't work, I am asleep. If it is a day when I am up and ready to go to work if needed, by the time I know I will be free, the appointments for that day are gone. They are gone within 15-20 minutes of the lines opening. So even if I try I may not always manage to get through.
Well, my left knee is complaining mightily, and I'm afraid I may need a replacement, but by the time I get around to seeing the doctor, my lower leg might have dropped off!
My childhood family doctor used to not take appointments. Just walk ins so people would show up, sign in and then see him. Some days it was really busy and others it wasn't. That was back in the sixties and seventies, though.
These days doctors all overbook and don't seem to care much that they can't take emergencies. Although I did once make an emergency appointment and got in and out faster than when I made a normal appointment. lol
Hope you can get your knee taken care of soon.
It was interesting back in the day. At the doc's and the vet's we used to just walk into the waiting room and sit down around the walls, no receptiopnist taking names, you used to have to ask who was the person who arrived just before you!
Let me tell you, as a nurse who has taken care of "HUNDREDS" of patients that had colonoscopy done--with perforations, meaning they punch a whole in the bowel fecal matter goes into the abdominal cavity and infection follows. I absolute refuse to have one. I know they recommend it but they are developing new non invasive tests.
This is unless Colon cancer runs in your family.
And knee replacement now is so very good the apparatus so much better than years before, The rehab is hell though.
lol I so agree with you on the whole colonoscopy issue. I've had one and trust me, it's not the actual procedure that's hard to endure as it is the prep...
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