I spend a good hour on the tube every day, which is like the epicentre of world eye-contact-avoidance. I sometimes worry it's turning me into some kind of sociopath.

So, you know, sorry, Steph.

Heh. If you, personally, stare me down, I'll be flattered.

Ticket acquired. Though I'm bummed to be going to yet another movie by myself. It's not like I absolutely need other people to go to a film, but I've been going by myself for so long now that I'm a bit tired of the loneliness of it.

I saw a new rheumatologist today. The doctor and the nurse were both very impressed with my ability to list my medications and give my medical history. That kind of confused me -- I mean, I lived my medical history, of course I know it.

I cheerfully forget half my medical history and/or medications, and I'm asked them on an at-least weekly basis. So I have an abbreviated version for the ER. I figure they don't really need to know about my knee surgery, and I don't remember when it was anyway.

What ita said. I've lived it, but my memory for dates & names sucks.

And he still argued with me "well, you're unusual".

Except that everyone I know hates this.

I take a list of medications with me for non-Kaiser doctors. Kaiser has all of them on its spiffy computer system. Despite the spiffy computers, it is still almost impossible to communicate with Kaiser from the outside world.

I just had a to fill out a medical history form and I know what has happened to me, but not so much the dates. I had to look up my leave of absence email to remember when my hysterectomy was.

I can never remember when the foot surgeries were. I just make up dates. I figure if it's that important to know exactly when it happened, they can call the insurance company.

My health shit is scattered across four countries and multiple head injuries, so there's just no way I can put all that together without a concerted effort.