Timelies all!
I am well overdue for a mammogram. I keep meaning to make an appointment with my GYN, but I've been putting it off.(As well as finding a new PCP)
One of you is gonna fall and die, and I'm not cleaning it up!
Mal ,'War Stories'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sheryl - Aug 19, 2022 4:27:40 pm PDT #16958 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
dcp - Aug 19, 2022 4:40:51 pm PDT #16959 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
...make an appointment...finding a new PCP.
Do it.
Putting that off is where I went wrong, and is why my cancer wasn't discovered until it was already stage IV.
brenda m - Aug 19, 2022 4:55:49 pm PDT #16960 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I’m trying to learn my lesson in that. I had a clean mammogram recently (yay!) though it did require a follow up ultrasound and I stalled and dithered and really shouldn’t have.
meara - Aug 19, 2022 6:48:40 pm PDT #16961 of 30000
Good reminder dcp.
The one I’ve been putting off is an eye exam. I paid for the vision insurance this year so I need to go get one and use the benefit!!
Cass - Aug 19, 2022 6:59:29 pm PDT #16962 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I am well overdue for a mammogram. I keep meaning to make an appointment with my GYN, but I've been putting it off.(As well as finding a new PCP)
I got a referral from Planned Parenthood about a month ago but you leave a message and they, in theory, call you back. They did not call me back and I was not calling them back and leaving more messages.
Instead I asked my NP for the referral instead when we did a follow-up on bloodwork and an x-ray yesterday morning. The scheduler called me yesterday afternoon and the mammogram was done by 10:30 this morning about 24 hours after I asked for the referral.
Make the calls. I am the master at procrastination and I did it! But if they have a system where the scheduler calls you, even better.
Just make the calls. Early cancer screenings work best when we get them done early.
With all of that, I need to make a dermatology appt for a specific look at a few spots and a general 'pale body in the desert' check out. That should be the end of the (should be) annual things.
Next we keep working on the broken stuff. Good times.
JZ - Aug 19, 2022 7:41:17 pm PDT #16963 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Go Cass with the stuff-doing and the not procrastinating!
I'm happy to report that we are once again a functional two-pig household; the animal shelter seemed positive they could find a happy, non-murderous home for Pickles and that she'd be fine, and now we have Gimlet-who-is-now-Ringo, and Prubs is bopping around the cage and vocalizing and being active and cheerful and acting like a brisk young woman of three instead of a crone of five. We're all incredibly relieved. And now we're about to get a couch, and the rest of the windows are for-real on their way and may be in by September! I just won't know what to do with myself, with glass windows and a couch and happy guinea pigs who just go out every day and refuse to choose violence.
And an eleventh grader. Holy crap we have an eleventh grader in the house, a diligent AP-homework-doing fussing-over-lonely-classmates functional-romantic-relationship-having eleventh grader who feels like possibly the most adult human in the house.
Calli - Aug 19, 2022 7:49:28 pm PDT #16964 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
It’s good to see your post, Epic. I’m glad the news from your doctor is good, and I wish your work system was better.
-t - Aug 19, 2022 7:58:29 pm PDT #16965 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Aw, that’s a lot of good news, JZ! I love to read it!
sj - Aug 20, 2022 5:43:37 am PDT #16966 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
JZ, that's all wonderful news!
The calendar between now and the beginning of the school year is so filled with social obligations. It's somewhat overwhelming.
askye - Aug 20, 2022 9:31:44 am PDT #16967 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
JZ that is wonderful news all around.
I finally had my first mammogram. I really need to get a colonoscopy and I've been putting that off but I know I shouldn't and that is on my list of things to deal with.
I need to find a new psychitrist/meds person because the person back in Brevard is leaving the clinic so now is a good time to find someone who is in state. Which I hate doing because it's hard and I haven't had the best track record with them , except in Brevard those have been ok.
And I should probably see about a dermatologist as well since I have moles and fair skin and my dad has lots of issues, although Dad has spent a lot more time in the sun than I have.