(((KingAHolic)))I can't seem to get caught up on my work from my vacation I took 2 weeks ago!
I Am Angry Today Because . . .
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Maybe a lil bit of MB addiction also thrown into the mix?
(I think I remember you saying that you work from home?)All joking aside... I hope you can get caught up soon.
I'm angry today because I'm upset at the medical profession. I had the flu in Feb and by mid-March, my blood pressure had risen to 250. I had to go to the ER. I told the ER that I had the flu before my bp rose but they said I had high bp because I'm old. They prescribed clonidine and referred me to a clinic for follow-up. The PA at the clinic increased my clonidine dosage and also prescribed a diuretic and a cholesterol lowering statin. The diuretic made me so horribly sick, I googled it and discovered it was sulfa based. I had told the PA I was allergic to sulfa.
I decided on my own to eat smart and get a cholesterol blood test before taking the statin. The PA didn't suggest trying a diet before taking the statin. In fact, he said he didn't know what I was talking about when I told him I hadn't been eating many saturated fats so I could lose my hard belly fat. I told him it was called something like vicious fat. He said he still didn't know what I was talking about. (It's called visceral fat. I think I was close enough for him to guess what I was talking about.)
I told both the ER and the PA what otc drugs I took when I had the flu but nether commented on them so I figured they had nothing to do with my high bp. This weekend I googled the decongestant I took and discovered it can cause dangerously high blood pressure. Shouldn't the ER doctor or the PA have known that? or at least suspected it?
I decided on my own to eat smart and get a cholesterol blood test before taking the statin. The PA didn't suggest trying a diet before taking the statin. In fact, he said he didn't know what I was talking about when I told him I hadn't been eating many saturated fats so I could lose my hard belly fat. I told him it was called something like vicious fat. He said he still didn't know what I was talking about. (It's called visceral fat. I think I was close enough for him to guess what I was talking about.)
I told both the ER and the PA what otc drugs I took when I had the flu but nether commented on them so I figured they had nothing to do with my high bp. This weekend I googled the decongestant I took and discovered it can cause dangerously high blood pressure. Shouldn't the ER doctor or the PA have known that? or at least suspected it?
Yes, they should have....
Unfortunately, people in all professions in these current times are very careless and un-thorough in what they do. In the medical profession, it's especially alarming and disheartening. I'm sorry you are having to go through this...
It's a sad state of affairs.
thoughts, prayers and comfort to you....
((( no bounce no play ))) I'm sorry you have been so unwell, I hope you can get this all sorted soon.
Oops, forgot to put my quotes in...hold on...
I am annoyed because I have to dig out my birth certificate, marriage license, social security card, and 2 proofs of address to get my driver license renewed in person.
I am more annoyed because I have had no tickets or anything, and qualified to renew through the mail. And for that, only needed 2 proofs of address. The paperwork for renewing through the mail was kindly sent to me in January, which I then put up in a safe place and forgot all about.
Y'all move to Kentucky...I just give them my old license, sign, and have a new picture taken!You can probably relate to this, Cat--don't read until you've got a few spare minutes as it will be long. I had forgotten I had to renew my driver's license last month but fortunately when I was cleaning up my desk came across the reminder postcard a week or so before it expired. No problem, just get my birth certificate or passport and go in (now that I'm past 60 I have to get my eyes examined every time I renew so no more on-line renewals). Looked in my file for my birth certificate and see it's not there so must be in my safe deposit box along with my passport. No problem, just go to the bank and get it. Nope. My safe deposit box key is not in my purse where I always keep it and I can't remember where my spare one is. Go to the bank and find out it's $150 to drill the lock so tell them to hold off until I can check about getting another birth certificate. Find out it would cost nearly $100 by the time all the fees are added up (I only paid $10!!!! the last time I needed a certified birth certificate), plus I would have to wait for them to send me a form in the mail to verify I'm legit and then another week or two to get the birth certificate after I returned that. After work my partner and I hunt through all my jewelry boxes as I vaguely remember having stored the spare in one of them. No luck but then my partner notices one of them has a tab that lifts out the insert and there's the spare underneath. Yay! Go in the next day--one day to spare now before license expires--and hand them my passport only to have the clerk tell me I don't need it because I did that the last time I renewed my license.Still haven't found my other safe deposit box key.
Used to be able to do that but now that I'm of a "certain age", will have to have my eyes tested. I guess that's a good thing as I'd like to know that others on the road with me are able to see, too.
i'm angry today because i've realized that i'm becoming that person that i never wanted to be.
i used to be so optimistic... i had so much love for the world. I really, honestly... innocently thought that at this point in our evolution as humans we'd have gained a certain amount of respect and compassion for each other. That we'd have an understanding of each others belief systems, sexuality, life-styles.
last night on The Voice, one of the contestants sang the most amazing version of John Lennon's 'Imagine'. I turned to my husband afterwards and said, "Do you think while he was writing that, that he ever would have imagined what a complete and utter cesspool humanity has become? He was so hopeful...."
My husband looked at me with a straight face and said, "I think it would break his heart."
It breaks my heart every day. I don't like people any more... i think their hatred and degenerative natures has finally gotten to me... it's like some sort of virus. And i've finally caught it.
i used to be so optimistic... i had so much love for the world. I really, honestly... innocently thought that at this point in our evolution as humans we'd have gained a certain amount of respect and compassion for each other. That we'd have an understanding of each others belief systems, sexuality, life-styles.
last night on The Voice, one of the contestants sang the most amazing version of John Lennon's 'Imagine'. I turned to my husband afterwards and said, "Do you think while he was writing that, that he ever would have imagined what a complete and utter cesspool humanity has become? He was so hopeful...."
My husband looked at me with a straight face and said, "I think it would break his heart."
It breaks my heart every day. I don't like people any more... i think their hatred and degenerative natures has finally gotten to me... it's like some sort of virus. And i've finally caught it.
I understand this... it's really difficult to remain hopeful and positive in the world today. Sometimes it helps if you just withdraw for a while.
(nods) agreed, Flakey.
now you guys know the truth.... about why i vanish for months at a time.
There are times (many, to be honest) when I wish I could do the same.
Yar...There are times (many, to be honest) when I wish I could do the same.
What you three have touched on is why I would rather play with my dog than go out and mingle with the public.
Thank God for the fine people here.
Thank God for the fine people here.
That is why my living in the woods and not needing to deal with people daily helps.