ita ! is there absolutely no way you can have your treatment once a week in a doctors office so that you can avoid all of this ER bullshit? It makes me so angry on your behalf.
Bunch of wanna blessed-bes. Nowadays every girl with a henna tattoo and a spice rack thinks she's a sister to the dark ones.
Willow ,'Bring On The Night'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sj - Mar 18, 2012 7:54:46 am PDT #27074 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
le nubian - Mar 18, 2012 7:59:08 am PDT #27075 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
what sj said.
sumi - Mar 18, 2012 7:59:24 am PDT #27076 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
ita - yeah, there should definitely be a better system . . . or you know, a system that would allow a less traumatic way of handling something that is a regular occurrence. It's just ridiculous that you have to go through that er mess regularly.
(ION: Go, Taylor - that really rocks.)
lisah - Mar 18, 2012 8:12:57 am PDT #27077 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
Yay, Taylor!! So cool! That reminds me of this
That reminds me of this terrific story from a couple of weeks ago that I wanted to share about a robotics club from the all girls public school near my house. The RoboDoves! These girls rock so hard!
Zenkitty - Mar 18, 2012 8:23:38 am PDT #27078 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
sarameg, that's fantastic! Congrats, Taylor!
ita !, I am, as usual, speechless with rage at your doctors. Surely there has to be a better way for you to get what you need.
Scrappy - Mar 18, 2012 8:25:15 am PDT #27079 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
ita, Betsy is now being treated for rebound headache syndrome--have they talked about whether you could have that?
Amy - Mar 18, 2012 8:26:40 am PDT #27080 of 30001
Because books.
Every time I have to seriously clean (like today, because the parents are coming for dinner), I want to put on "Housework" from Free to Be, You and Me, and chant right along with Carol Channing.
sarameg - Mar 18, 2012 8:27:05 am PDT #27081 of 30001
I have managed to read two months' old magazines.
Yeah, not being productive today afterall. But I do need to go out and gas up the car.
Ginger - Mar 18, 2012 8:37:58 am PDT #27082 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Which was when she turned around and walked out of me mid-sentence, saying "Well, I'm not going to do it."
What is her childhood trauma? Don't you have orders on file? She can't understand that someone who is in pain all the time comes in on the weekend so she can work during the week? Why do residents keep doubting the integrity of all the previous doctors who authorized the drugs? Why can't we bash her in the head?
It seems like there ought be an infusion center that would administer the drugs prescribed, without the drama.
§ ita § - Mar 18, 2012 8:49:37 am PDT #27083 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It seems like there ought be an infusion center that would administer the drugs prescribed, without the drama.
No one's going to administer these doses of dilaudid to me outside of a hospital setting. So ER it is.
I mean, she honestly walked out on me in the middle of the conversation. After assuring me that the attending was on *her* side, not mine. It was a whole series of people unfamiliar with me, but, yeah, the idea that I scrape it out as long as I can handle it which isn't much (I left the house three times last week), and drag myself into the ER at the last possible moment, and that it happens so often that I don't present as a wreck all the time...wow. That's just inconceivable.
No way she'd consider the life I had before the headaches and compare that to the "life" I have now and see if there's been any impact. No way she'd check my files to see if her bright idea of prescription PO dilaudid has been tried and ditched beforehand. No reason that being treated in the ER in a way my doctors could have been treating me at home all this time hasn't already been thought of--no, she's the first one to have that light bulb go off.
I told her--I do what I have to do so I can work to pay the bills, including insurance, so my migraine doctor can continue to tweak my daily meds and research avenues of treatments. I'm still waiting for word on the next clinic he's trying to get me into.
Speaking of which, no, Scrappy. I don't think so. What is she rebounding from? My migraine specialist had me cut down the Stadol (i ended up off entirely, so I now no longer have a home breakthrough alternative, which sucks, but it doesn't work on this prophylactic regimen anymore), and I'm not supposed to be taking enough of anything else to be rebounding--the dilaudid should be spaced sufficiently to take care of that. But I can mention it on my next visit.