Happy Birthday, Laura!
The birds are lovely, thanks for linking them.
I wish I had helpful words, WS, but all I can offer is compassion for your frustration. I am blessed in my doctor (lesbian GP FTW) and know it.
Smonster, I take it you got evidence that he really did take kitty to the vet? And I am glad you sound so happy.
I was skeptical b/c it takes a lot for someone to go to an emergency vet on a Sunday, but the story rang true once he told me the details. Whitefonted for squick:
worms.
Ewwww...
I still feel like a future me programmed him and sent him back in time for my companionship and enjoyment.
smonster and everyone who has been supportive, thank you for your words of compassion.
It is good to see that you have someone who cares for his pets, and is fun for you to spend time with.
Today's edition of Good Morning, Fry and Laurie warns against the dangers of sniffing glue: [link]
Happy Birthday, Laura! Hope it's a fabulous day!
WS, I send you email. And I like Laura's idea of setting up an interview.
Today's edition of Good Morning, Fry and Laurie warns against the dangers of sniffing glue
"Let me ask a different question in the same way."
Stephen Fry: marvellously cheering.
Happy Birthday, Laura!
Andi, I seriously hope you take Laura up on her offer. You need to find someone who believes in you. I've got a great doctor and dread the day she retires, because I don't know if I'll ever find another that willing to listen to me.
I had a House dream. He only mocked my weight in a tangental way and insinuated that I might have a functioning brain. Twoo Luv House style.
Happy birhday, Laura! (It tickles me every year to see your b-day greetings on the board as it's my Laura's b-day, too!)
Happy birthday, Laura!
Doctors don't believe that she eats a ridiculously low-calorie diet and still gains weight.
One of the many depressing parts of Gina Kolata's
Rethinking Thin
was that one of the things that retarded research into obesity is that doctors simply did not believe their patients who said they were only eating 800 calories a day and not losing weight. It took studies in which there was no way the patients could be sneaking these mythical calories to show that one can indeed not lose weight on extremely low calorie diets. The doctors who still believe in those mythical calories still abound, though.
I have had many doctors who were wonderful in their specialties but who still do not believe middle-aged fat women who say they died and exercise. It's just ingrained in their view of the world.
