September 8, 2007
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He said nine months.
I said one year!I will see you, maybe, in one year.
I was in a terrible mood last Wednesday. A perfect day to go to that horrible doctor.
Dr. R is sweet, but he bugs me now…..
Hubby and I walked into the waiting room, with the algea covered saltwater aquarium, and sappy music playing… really loud.
the two ladies at the desk, the usual ones, these ditsy looking indian ladies with black fuzzy hair. Sorry, no offense but these two bug me too.
They can not speak english very well…. they both move around like they are half asleep. Maybe they only have half a brain, I don’t know. It is possible.
The loud music is playing…… awful music…like the Carpenters, and John Denver kind of stuff. It was sooo loud I was ready to leave!
Okay I had hubby with me and he never would have let me leave. He was probably the only thing keeping me sane.
Then the door opens and one of the indian ladies calls my name. It is a simple name and she cannot pronounce my name. How lame is that?
What ever…..Then she weighs me. She does not notice I am carrying my purse because she is blind, so I just keep carrying it and step on the scale.
It says I weigh 4 pound more that I really do. Then we get into the exam room and I sit in one chair and hubby sits in the other… the indian lady (who is not a nurse by the way) prepares to leave…. I ask her, “are you going to change the table paper there?” (on the exam table that has clearly a large wrinkly butt imprint in the paper)“oh… okay”
Gosh I was crabby.
Then… sitting in the exam room with the door completely shut, hubby and I could STILL hear that frickin’ loud sappy music all the way from the waiting room with the moldy aquarium. unbelievable. It was bad. Hubby was rolling his eyes.
Dr. R comes in. I just want to see the blood test results. they look amazing…. Everything is “normal”
If you open it up to look at the alpha beta and gamma, and the immunofixation… then you can see some slight discrepancies… but really, honestly
my IgM is half what it was two years ago. I was shocked but very happy. In other words the regular routine analysis came up normal, so tell me, how many people do you think are walking around with a normal blood sample, yeah, lots of people. How many of those people if you opened up their albumin and albumin/globulin ratio found them to be elevated… that might be a lot of people too.I think this doctor likes my insurance company, and he is using me a study case.
okay well, think about that. It is plausibleAnyway, the doc wanted me to come back in 9 months and I said no, a year. He seemed kind of miffed with my attitude but I don’t care. I feel like being a crabby person.
Besides… I think I might look for a woman hemotologist/oncologist. I am sick a male doctors touching me. I am sick of dr.R. Hubby said he would help me find a fabbie girly doc… okay well a woman doctorLots of things going on here.
a litttle of everything.I have been reading your marvelous bloggies but not commenting much. Sorry.
I am so thrilled that most of you are blogging.. It is good to see everyone, except me, is behaving normally.I drove up to Blizzie’s college (The Compound) yesterday. I love the drive up there. I just take the toll road up to Leesburg Rt 15, and go over the bridge into Maryland… continue on 15 drive drive drive into PeeAy drive drive drive until I smash into the college. I usually spend more time looking out the windows at the views than look where I am going… it seems anyway. She got her monthly blood tests done (for the accutane) at the health center.
Her new room is nice. I did not cry. I am happy for her. Besides… the drive… driving there was really a pleasure. Like driving through Switzerland.I do not have much more to share.
Stuff happening all the time. I have to keep up.
I am going to try and skate…. I say try and skate on Monday at the Cabin John Rinkish.
I have to go to stoopid bells tomorrow at 5:30… *sigh* it better be good, or I am quitting. If Amy or Karen are not there this year…. I am quitting. I do not know how to quit a church activity… especially a struggling church activity. I wont think about that.Oh well.
Happy Saturday.
Here is an optomistic one for you…. or not.
The problem with troubleshooting
is that trouble shoots back.
~Author Unknown
Comments (16)
Haha, trouble shoots back! It sure DOES! Today, we are trying to get ready to go. Well, the well is slowly crapping out… it sped up this week… it should be fixed before we go, but it can’t be… too involved, not enough time. Then while trying to mow, both the rider and the push mower were acting up… Byron got those fixed and the washing machine started doing its thing where it fills up and OVER with water… good thing it’s on the backporch and in an old house that mean it slopes down slightly, so water just runs out and under the door, LOL! I don’t care… as long as Lyss and the critters are alright this week, it can just stay that way!
I have been in a MOOD today myself. Saying ‘mood’ made me think of what happened last night. We were sitting here in the den and Byron was watching baseball… the world was quiet… all of a sudden, we heard “MOOO!” All we can imagine it was, was a cow in a farmer’s trailer riding down the road. It was friendly of us to moo at us while he went by, LOL!
And back to the crappy mood… I got Aunt Flo, but thankfully it’s mostly gone and will leave soon after I arrive in FL. I am SO ready to have this surgery… it can’t happen too soon… they way my stoopid monthly has been, I will prolly have aNOTHER round before I go under the knife, LOL!
Enuff about me……………….. I am SO glad you results are GOOD! Tell those wonky indian ladies to keep their slightly used butt paper to themselves, LOL! I love you! Hope you have a good week… I am taking my compooter to FL, so I might talk at you! (((HUGS!)))
It’s not normal to ask for a second opinion when it’s good news but with the level of incompetency displayed by the doctor’s help I believe that may not be a bad idea. lol Glad the news came back good.
Wow, HALF! That is a huge difference! A good thing, no? So I’d say you have plenty of time to look for someone else, thank goodness. If there’s one think I learned from my knee fiasco, it’s that you have to be in control.
“Lots of things” going on better include some good stuff!
Have fun with the skating – you usually enjoy it a lot once you get there, it seems.
The bells situation is tougher; but surely it is time to let someone else experience the joy, right? : ) Anyway, that’s one way you could put it! Good luck!
You are a very loveable “grouch”…And…I don’t blame you for being annoyed. BUT…THE GOOD NEWS IS that you are normal(well, whatever that means…lol) and that you won’t have to go back for a whole entire year!
I’m with you. I like women doctors. Now that I’m getting older(ahem), I prefer female docs. All the docs are the age of my children or grandchildren nowadays…there are few people in the world older than I am…
Glad to hear the results of the blood test.
Be a good girl now. I know you will!
HUGS
Ah man….I don’t blame you for wanting to swap Dr.s. Crinkled butt marks on the exam table is just….nasty. I wish if people were going to deal with Americans that they would speak the language. That would make me grouchy too!
The results of the blood test sounds great!!!
I’m glad you blogged.
Congrats on getting good test results-I know thats a weight off your mind.
About trouble…. absolut trouble
I’m sure there are other dr.’s out there and I would get someone you like. I worked many years for dr. and sometimes there just comes a time for a change.
Find a new doctor asap. It’s hard to relate to someone you don’t like and make sure you tell him and your insurance company why you want to leave.
I would think it wouldn’t be too hard to find the Dr. you want, even if you have to travel a little farther. I never thought I would like a woman Dr., until I went to one. She is my Primary. Love her so much! She listens, she understands, and she is aggressive in following through. I was doubly impressed when my Cardiologist was leaving his practice, and he said he wasn’t concerned about me, because I had a excellent primary, who kept a close eye on everything. I now have a new cardio man. Wish I could find a woman. He is nice, but there always seems to be a little more arrogance to a lot of the older male specialists. Ken’s younger ortho surgeon was not like that at all.
Have fun with your skating. No falling and hurting anything—OK??? lol
I should not say that , Rosemary , but I laughed when I was reading the description of your waiting; What a deliciously ferocious style ! I had fear you ate the Indian ladies !
I am so happy your blood analysis is normal . Sometimes it is good to feel normal !
You like driving in imagining you are in Switzerland ! Well but take cake to the road and keep right !!
Love
Michel
You wrote a great description of that doctor’s office ’cause I was feeling it….blecky! I’m so glad you had good results and that your hubby was there with you.
You were definitely a bit on the grumpy side, but who can blame you? I’m glad your bloodwork is normal.
Besides your crabbiness, that’s great news. I agree you need to see a woman doctor, just quit going to Dr. R and his moldy aquarium. If they don’t take of their fish, how well are they treating you?
Glad you didn’t cray at Blizzie’s. I have to make myself not cry sometimes, but I do it, just so she won’t.
ugh, I feel so sorry for the fish. I have asked the front desk people to turn down the music before, so I feel your pain. It doesn’t need to be loud enough to hear down the street, I guess I’m grouchy too. I’m glad your blood work came back so good, isn’t it great to feel normal? w00t for you!
Next time you drive up to see Blizzie take your camera so we can see a tiny bit of the Switzerland you see.
I’d definetly be looking for another doc, male or female. And I’d get all my labs and such and then I’d tell Dr. R why I dislike his loud music, stupid lady- weigh holding your purse-ack, and the mouldy tank and soiled paper too.