"Please see your pain specialist because the ER is not a good way to manage chronic pain."

Fuck her.

I hope you get a better doctor next week.

Oh jesus, ita. So rageful on your behalf. Maybe if they ACTUALLY KNEW OF A BETTER OPTION THAT WORKED, that note wouldn't fucking enrage me.

Oh, my god, ita.

Does she really not think that if there were not a better way, you would not be up for doing it? A better way that's affordable? Dude. I wish I lived in LA.

I would read your file, study everything, and go with you to ER visits (I'd ignore you and let you read) just to be a snooty fucking bitch to anyone who pulled this kind of crap.

"Hello. I'm Ms. ---'s advocate; she's hired me (for you know, coffee drinks) because I understand there has been marked resistance quite a few time on the part of the medical staff here to administer prescribed therapeutic drug treatment, as per the written directions of her pain specialist. I am here to observe, record and advocate, as when she is in such dehabilitating pain from her chronic condition, it lowers her normally high verbal acuity, and impedes her ability to advocate successfully for herself.

Also? I am a stone bitch with near-perfect recall, and some writing instruments. Proceed with fucking caution."

My theory is that every damned doctor who is smug about some condition they have never had should instantly be inflicted with that condition for a month, to see how well they fucking deal with it.

ION, let me all annoy you, and help myself by listing the shit I wanna do today while the coffee revivifies my brane.

Make chicken soup. It's a great day for it; it's 1030 here, and 47 degrees and sunny.

Laundry. Clean office. Go through mags and recycle. Straighten M's room, sweep and dust, and open the windows to air out for his visit Wed.

Scrub upstairs toilet and tub. Take picture of gas grill and send to that craigslist dude, to see if he'll barter it for hauling away the couch and chairs in my garage. (Please say yes, dude.)

Watch DVR's Supernatural ep. Make tiny apple crisp. Maybe start weeding that little patch -- if I start on it, then go to hardware store and get pansies, look at 3M picture hangers.

Ok, that's doable. It's mostly easy straighten-y stuff. Nothing's really filthy or hugely messy right now.

Watching the Saints game play-by-play online. Carolina has called two timeouts in the first three minutes of the game?

who wants to make a roadtrip to LA and beat the shit out of these doctors, raise your hand!

t raises hand

I do! I do!

I'll get in on the road trip!

I'll provide alibis! You all stopped off in Utah to look at the changing leaves in the mountains.