I started seeing a new doctor day before yesterday (I’m slow getting the news out, sue me). It’s a man this time, which is significant in that I don’t go to male doctors generally. However, my ex-quack pissed me off so much that I went searching for referrals. His name came up a couple of times, so I made the appointment. Surprisingly I got in right away.
He’s a nice guy so far. Pretty funny too. I told him what I’d gone through with my previous doctor and he seemed sympathetic. I said to him “Now pay very close attention, because all of these symptoms come at the same time and only last a couple hours a day. My other doctor couldn’t comprehend that- or she refused to anyway - and that pissed me off. So, let’s just cut all the crap and get down to business. Ok?” He said to me “Well, I’m going to run a whole bunch of tests on you over the next month or so. And if they all come back normal I guess we’ll call you crazy.” Then we had a chuckle. He assured me that he understood that my symptoms were all part of the same episodes and that he’d find out what the deal was. Then I told him that the quack diagnosed me with a mitral valve prolapse, but didn’t do any tests to confirm it.* I also told him that Lexapro was the devil’s pill and there was no way in hell I was ever going to take that again. “Well, the devil didn’t actually invent it, but he might have had something to do with your negative reaction.” Ha! Guess you should’ve been there. Anyway, I’m not going to say that he’s a good doctor yet. They all pretty much seem nice when you first meet them. Then BOOM! The asshole emerges. I’ll give him some time.
So, yesterday I spent a good deal of time at the hospital getting some of these tests done and today I’ve got to go get blood work and a chest x-ray. Fun stuff, indeed.
It’s snowing here again. That pisses me off. How are we going to have 80° F weather one day and the next day it’s snowing. That’s just not right! And my poor little posies are dying off now too. Bad, Mother Nature, very BAD!
I have a paper to do and instead I’m posting on my blog. Isn’t that nice? Everyone give me a big hand.
There was something else I wanted to post about, but it’s completely escaped me. So, I’m leaving this space for that if I ever remember what the hell I wanted to tell you. I wouldn’t hold my breath, though. Sometimes that shit leaves my mind and just never comes back. Ain’t gettin’ old grand?
All this time I’ve been online and I’ve never had a big problem with spam. Now suddenly I actually get people commenting on my stuff and BAM! Those bastards found me. I’ve even got spammers signing up for accounts. Hi, spammers, if you have a pharma company email addy or something equally as stupid, your account will be deleted. Likewise your comments will never make it through. Of course, I don’t think they’ll actually heed my advice, but I had to try.
Now, I’d like to know who gave these fuckers the key to my kingdom? Hmmm? Which one of you hates me?
* I’m not going to go all in quoting the both of us, because honestly I can’t remember word for word. I just got a kick out of being able to talk to him like a normal person and getting that same kind of thing back from him.
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Wasn’t me. I didn’t do it. I only do that to people that aggrevate the shit out of me.
I never do that. I just ridicule them until they collapse in a melty puddle. Works a treat! Anyway, good luck with the new doc. I’m less thrilled with mine now that it turns out an antibiotic cured the dizziness and I didn’t need the voodoo place after all.
I was having a MAD spam problem. Suckers, pissing me off. But thanks to the powers that be (you) it is no longer a problem.
Yayyy! I was really starting to want to shoot the computer. Dudes were coming in shitloads.
Hi.
Nothing to say. Just dropping in/stalking
Ah I love it when you can talk to a doc like a person and not DOCTOR so and so. And seriously your job as a physician is important and all and I respect ya, but really all you do is create circumstances such that the body can heal itself in the most effective way possible. The miracle is the anatomy of the machine — not the mechanic.
On the spam front, you have Akismet going, right? Right?
Someone here is way more popular than me and they’re following me from your spot. So, that means that everyone is guilty! Hahahaha!
Doctors annoy me simply because they think they’re God or something and I am just a wee piss ant who couldn’t possibly know her own body. Pshaw! I haven’t got the time for that bullshit. Since they need my money as much as I need their treatment I’d say we’re on equal footing. Yes?
As far as the spam, it’s not getting through. I have Askimet, first comment moderation, and auto-close comments after 3 weeks. Too bad so sad for them. I love it when they sign up for accounts, though, because the emails they use always give away their nefarious intentions. And so they waste away behind the scenes, never to bother my comment page. What a shame.