Posts Tagged ‘medicine’
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
One doctor says the exact opposite of the other one, both send agree I should see a physical therapist who says something completely opposed to what both the doctors says, and that there’s really nothing he thinks he can accomplish. But he’ll still schedule a few more appointments, to make sure. And none of them find anything odd about how all these difficulties are single-sided, though the PT did confirm that I’m not crazy, and my right leg IS noticeably larger than the left. I had been thinking it was a sort of striped-shirt-style optical illusion, but when he pointed it out, I noticed that one looks larger than the other even from an angle where the tattoo isn’t visible.
gah
Tags: confirmation, medicine, physicaltherapy, quackery
Posted in cranky, mis-cognition, oh-well | Comments Off
Monday, August 8th, 2011
Things you do not want to hear at the doctor’s office,
“I don’t know how to use this x-ray machine”
followed by
“Oops, I made a mistake”
I’m sure it wasn’t anything too bad, just wasted film, but still, perceptions matter, etc.
Tags: medicine, oops, radiation
Posted in oh-well | Comments Off
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
He’s home from the hospital and all full of radioactivity, so I’m supposed to limit my contact with him, but of course he’s extra needy from his first multi-night stay out of the house. He isn’t crying out all the time like before treatment though, so hopefully more important things are happening inside him, visible only through laboratory testing. Here’s hoping he’s around and annoying me in the mornings for years to come.
Tags: cat, home, medicine, radioactive, twist
Posted in cat, stuff | Comments Off
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
A Seattle jury gave Karen Hulley a pass on her mistreatment of a gay couple. From her own lawyer’s closing statements, it sounds like a clear cut case of discrimination, validated by a pathetic bunch of homophobic jurors. If you were on that jury, you should be just as ashamed of yourself as the bigot Karen Hulley. You let your personal small minded hate rule you, and you are a lesser person for it. I hope someday you get treated with the love and respect you denied others, and that it opens your mind to just how terrible you have behaved. If you have Karen Hulley for a nurse, I would worry about your safety. Someone willing to put her own hate above the care of a dieing patient isn’t someone you should trust your life to. I wouldn’t trust Karen Hulley with a bag of shit.
Tags: cowardice, death, homophobia, medicine
Posted in cranky, politics, seattle | Comments Off
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
It seems that washing your hands is better for you than taking lots of vitamins, at least in terms of preventing getting a cold. That seems to match with my recent experience watching the vitamin-C nut in our lab going through her sniffles.
Tags: cold, hygiene, medicine, vitamins
Posted in wonderments | Comments Off
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Back in my day, when a kid had to start wearing glasses in Kindergarten, it was for sure that by high school, he’d be wearing coke-bottle-bottoms at best. Now they can start you on treatments, and keep your eyes from growing all wrong-shaped.
I wonder if it helps Astigmatism too.
Tags: eyes, future-tech, glasses, medicine
Posted in wonderments | Comments Off
Monday, July 21st, 2008
So far, all the medical personnel seem amusingly enthusiastic about getting to give a guy a mammogram. There was the intern who tried to joke about how I can now know what women go thru, to the radiologist who expressed her amazement that I could stand one of her more painful squishifications of my swollen body-bit. So far, nothing new has been learned. It’s definitely not big-C cancer, but so far I haven’t heard any specific treatments. I guess that comes at the next appointment.
Tags: medicine
Posted in wonderments | Comments Off
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
I try to tell them, “I’m not that kind of girl”, but they just wouldn’t listen.
OK, not really.
I have a lump in my breast which the doctors are quite certain doesn’t “feel like cancer”, but they want to do tests just in case. So they send me off to the lab with a checklist of tests to be performed. As I’m waiting, I notice one of the tests is the pregnancy test. I’m suspecting that since I was being seen at the women’s clinic, they might just have that always checked on their forms. Then again, there could be some odd diagnostic side-effect of a preggers test on men that might apply. Just so long as my insurance doesn’t refuse the charge.
Tags: billing, medicine, pregnancy, tests
Posted in wonderments | Comments Off
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
So, I’ve got a lump in one of my breasts. I’ve been to the doctor before, and they’ve squeezed it and given me the brush off before, but recently it started getting larger, and painful, so I went back to my primary care physician. They decide that maybe since it is growing, they should take a better look, and refer me to the breast cancer group for further study and hopefully treatment. That’s when the fun began. Seems of the 5 numbers on the referral sheet they gave me, none of them are correct. When I finally DO get thru to one of the clinics, I get transferred around until they hang up on me altogether. It only took an hour on the phone to get yet another pointless appointment with a not-really-a-doctor who’ll just do the exact same thing they did at my PCP’s, who will THEN hopefully send me to someone who can actually do something.
Very frustrating experience so far, and I don’t even think I’m sick. I can’t imagine how pissed I’d be if I felt in anyways certain that my lump might be cancerous.
Tags: incompetence, medicine
Posted in cranky | Comments Off
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
I remember well, the MASH episode where pierce plugs the hole in one kids aorta with a finger while he waits for another kid to die, so they can harvest is aorta as a replacement. It introduced me to the concept of cadaver harvesting. I know that replacing a torn ACL, the replacement tissue has to come from somewhere, it’s another one of those things you’d just rather not think about. Suddenly that hyper athletic guy, talking about how his 40 time is getting back in line with what it was before his injury, seems a little more like a ghoul, eh?
Tags: ick, medicine
Posted in wonderments | Comments Off