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20867. judithathome - 1/11/2007 7:44:45 PM My son has been "working with" his doctor for over 12 years to get it right...he has taken so many different ones that he has almost run out of options. Sine he was 10 years old, not a day has passed for 34 years that he was not on one sort of medication or another. He's had one stoke and 4 other "events" which initials I can't recall and he's been on TONS of meds for the past 5 years. He has deadening of the nerve endings in his legs and arms due to aftereffects of chemo...
I can see how he might think he feels better stopping everything and probably to him, "better" just means UN-medicated. But I hope he sees now that he can't do this just to "feel better"...he has to take them or run the risk of not feeling at all due to the side effect of death. 20868. wonkers2 - 1/11/2007 8:46:14 PM Wow, that's tough duty. I've been taking three pills a day plus vitamins for a year and will probably continue for the rest of my life. 20869. arkymalarky - 1/12/2007 12:38:00 AM Wow, I'm glad he's okay and I hope you're right, Judith, that he will go from here and take his meds.
On a much less major health note, I'm going to have to go back to the allergist and tell him I quit my shots and medicine and need to start back--I've had chronic crud since fall. I don't know why I feel like I'm going to be in trouble. I'm paying him, for crying out loud. But I did leave my gynecologist over hormones after surgery, which I hated because in some ways he was better than what I've had since. But I don't regret it. 20870. arkymalarky - 1/12/2007 12:41:31 AM Arks, glad to hear you got that massive paper in on time. It'll all be worth it...this summer, you'll be laughing about how easy it all was!
Thanks! Everyone I work and live with (kids included) is glad too. I'll sure be laughing about the fact it's over. I'm already doing that, and I still have three more classes and possibly some revisions on that project to do. 20871. alistairConnor - 1/12/2007 12:43:26 AM Better to leave your gynecologist over hormones than... your husband. 20872. arkymalarky - 1/12/2007 12:58:33 AM I'm sure, man though you are, you can appreciate I'm between a rock and a hard place...so to speak. 20873. wabbit - 1/12/2007 1:22:32 AM Speaking of gynecologists...I have told many people of the gynecologist at UMass Amherst when I was there, back in the dark ages. His name was Dr. Clapp. I saved an appointment card, because I was certain nobody would ever believe me.
I was scanning the newspaper a few weeks ago when something caught my eye. You know how that happens, something grabs your subconscious attention and you end up reading the whole page to try to figure out what it was. Well, in my case, it turned out to be Dear Abby. I never read Dear Abby, but I read through that day's column, a series of letters about peoples' names, and lo and behold:
[...] DEAR ABBY: I swear this is true: When I visited my first gynecologist when I was in college (the University of Massachusetts at Amherst), his name was Dr. Clapp. -- V. COOK, BLUE HILL, MAINE [...]
Confirmation! I have saved that Dear Abby column.20874. arkymalarky - 1/12/2007 1:28:06 AM Ha! I'll bet he was razzed in gynecology school. 20875. wonkers2 - 1/12/2007 4:31:53 AM Let's have a little clap for wabbit! 20876. CharlieL - 1/12/2007 7:23:32 AM The drummer in one of my old bands had a dermatologist who was named Dr Spott. 20877. arkymalarky - 1/12/2007 8:20:51 AM So if a patient decided to quit him he could just say "Out Damned Spott" because he didn't perform that function. 20878. thoughtful - 1/12/2007 3:40:27 PM And of course we had a dentist in town named Dr. Pulley. 20879. judithathome - 1/12/2007 4:42:37 PM Talked to my son yesterday and he was properly chastised...is taking new pills and this morning, is reporting for jury duty.
He said he's been to the ER so many times, they treat him like a regular. 20880. Magoseph - 1/12/2007 8:38:29 PM Glad that he's better, Judith, and I hope the jury duty won't be too much for him. Sunday night, we're supposed to get snow, all night into the early morning. I went to the store and it took me for ever to get out of there. Evidently, people want to avoid the Saturday crowds.
20881. arkymalarky - 1/13/2007 1:02:04 AM I guess it's different everywhere, Judith, but if I had to go in even half the times they called me I would have missed a bunch of work, but they called back and cancelled almost every time due to plea bargains. I would think he could be pretty busy with it since we're a much less populated area. And the county I work in hardly called the two colleagues of mine, who were on jury duty when I was, at all. It's very rural compared to my county. Which is saying a lot.
Hope you don't get snowed in, Mags. It's just dreary here, but that looks like a massive system. 20882. arkymalarky - 1/13/2007 1:03:56 AM The topic has passed, but another book I'm going to reread is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I read a really good article on Pirsig a few weeks ago, but I was already wanting to reread it, and Walden. 20883. wonkers2 - 1/13/2007 5:13:41 AM So many must reads, so little time!
The Cap'n sez, "So many women, so little time!" 20884. alistairconnor - 1/16/2007 12:01:53 PM What, no wails and tales of winter woe and snow?
Cut off from the world by the blizzard, Mago? 20885. Magoseph - 1/16/2007 1:47:22 PM Gee, Ali, is that only thing I talk about these days, the weather? Your recent pictures in Escapes reminded me of a time when I went around accompanied by a handsome man and two good-looking kids. You and the beauties in your life must be noticed everywhere you go with them.
Anyway, we only had three and a half inches around here. Yesterday by five in the morning, the roads were cleared, as was our parking lot. A good thing since I had to take Flexy for doctor check-ups on his eyes and general health.
20886. alistairconnor - 1/16/2007 3:37:55 PM No, I was genuinely curious, bordering on the worried. Saw a scrolling headline on CNN this morning about 39 deaths in the blizzard in the US.
And as for poor Mago only getting 3 1/2 inches... I think I'll leave that for someone else to bite on.
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