Our family dr delivered both our kids . He was brilliant. Retired about 20 years ago. His son took over. He became a friend. I hopped him out and he helped me. He sold out to Chinese money to buy his patents. First time I went was told money up front, you have a 12 min window. Never went back. We dr is a woman and very good.
When my doc left his practice and moved over to be a full-time hospital doc, his replacement was a youngish female nurse-practitioner, and I liked her well enough, but she was very by-the-book, and I didn't feel that she really listened much, just looked at numbers and made recommendations based on that, like, "Well, your BP is this, and this chart in my book says if your age is this and your weight is that and your height is this and your BP is that, then I'm to do this," and that's what she'd do. Felt like cookie-cutter care.
I just couldn’t do it, it’s too pretty:Taking the Christmas ornaments off the tree.
On the 21st day of Christmas, my true love said to me:
Here’s a funny (to me) story concerning one of my doc visits…I think it was 2022, and it touches on the communication issue, and I think I can keep it clean:I can do both TR. That’s why I was always requested for patient education with the the hopeless, unable to be reached cases, you just translated it into common language, it made them laugh, their guard dropped and boom the message lands. I’d be lying if I said I didn‘t enjoy it
Here’s a funny (to me) story concerning one of my doc visits…I think it was 2022, and it touches on the communication issue, and I think I can keep it clean:
I go to a urologist regularly, being a gentleman of a certain age - meaning I have an elevated PSA, so they’re always keeping an eye on that and the not-so-little gland that affects that. I go often enough that the nurse and I are fairly friendly, and we BS a little during appointments.
Now, each of these appointments, where they draw blood and check my PSA number, comes with instructions:
1. No vigorous exercise for 10 days prior
2. No riding lawnmower for 10 days prior
3. No sex for 10 days prior
All of these can affect the number they’re monitoring.
I went to my appointment, Nurse Teri is checking me in, getting my vitals, going over my current meds, and then I say:
“Oh crap. I forgot and, um, mowed the grass a couple of days ago.”
“Ok…so when you say you mowed the grass, do you mean you mowed the grass or you mowed the grass?”
“I mowed the grass…like, on my lawnmower.”
“Ok, I was just asking, because that can mean two things, y’know.”
“Well, I was just mowing the grass…the less fun meaning.”
We had a little giggle and after a couple of minutes, I asked:
“You know…whether I’d been exercising too much, or mowing the grass, or you know, mowing the grass…it’d be the same result, right? It just throws off that number?”
“Yeah, it can show a false high reading.”
“So then why’d you ask if it was one or the other? It really wouldn’t matter, right?”
She gave me a sly little look, winked, and replied, “Maybe I just wanted to know!”
That’s why we get along!
It's time Tasty, it's time.
Mr SSOAP has agreed to start doing yoga with me this morning, I ordered him yoga blocks and a boosting cushion (good for beginners and if the hips are stiff) and a strap so any limbs that don't want to pay ball can be lassoed.
I give it approximately 2 days before the 'I don't want to' reasons start appearing, I'll put my money down now on "It doesn't help, it makes things worse"
Then off to the solicitors. We are making Wills today and my father his coming along for an appointment too, I believe to try and ameliorate the mad things my mother will have us caught up in for an eternity when she pop her clogs!
