Skipping ahead to say to Erin:

THIS is why I adore Erin. You so deserve better. That sounds like a toxic environment and fuck 'em with a rusty chainsaw if they can't take a real person.

Seconding this, Barb has nailed precisely what I want to say to you.

Maybe it's because Ohio is an at-will state, because it would be perverse to deny someone unemployment when their employer fired them with the reason of (and I quote) "You're not working out."

Then Minnesota is perverse. We're at-will, and generally if one is anything other than laid off one has to fight for it.

OTOH? I've always won my fights, because even if I've had some issues, the other side's actions were always worse.

Plus?

{{Erin}}

Yeah, just what you want to hear from a health care professional. "I've never seen one do that before."

I hear that from medical professionals all the time. My basic measure of doctors is that I stick with the ones who follow that up with geeking out and looking up stuff, and drop the ones who follow that with focusing on the symptoms that make more sense to them.

so a whole new person to give me confused looks.

This always awesome. I've had one PT know what Erb's Palsy was (one who was treating me for something else), and the rest had to have it explained. And one Dr. who tried to look it up and couldn't find it. Seriously? I don't know what lousy internet Physician's Reference you're using, but I've had luck with Google myself.

That is to say, good luck, Hil.

What was the name of that syndrome/condition that is indicated by hyperflexible joints?

What was the name of that syndrome/condition that is indicated by hyperflexible joints?

Ehlers Danlos Syndrome.

Thanks. Time to play pin the tail on the symptom and see what matches on Hubby.

You may want to also check out Hypermobility Syndrome symptoms, which is what I believe I have. Less serious than EDS, but still painful and a PITA.

any diabetics taking metformin, looks like we get a bonus -- protection from cancer

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