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posted by [personal profile] selkie at 08:58pm on 30/01/2006
I went to the doctor to check on a lingering chest infection with a little bit of a cough.

I came back three hours later with a prescription for an anti-bacterial, an order for an immediate chest x-ray right now, a referral to the cardiologist, a cardiac echogram, and a followup appointment at 4:30 on Wednesday.

I am never going to the doctor again. Why bother going to the doctor?!

Apparently my auscultation was icky and I have a funny sound characteristic of my valves thinning and having flowback. My pulse oximetry managed to be a respectable 94-97%, but that's because I've been gasping like a fish lately.

You should taste this medicine. Jesus. It's like cherry turpentine bubblegum of the damned.


My love drove me around diligently all afternoon and evening, from work to the doctor's to the hospital to the pharmacy. At one point, I observed her watching the tv loop in the waiting room -- CNN Health, as I later found out -- and I wanted to alert her to my presence but she was utterly absorbed in the telly, with an expression like unto a fluffy baby lowland gorilla who has just stepped on a tack.

I love my wife.
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posted by [identity profile] darthrami.livejournal.com at 02:07am on 31/01/2006
:-p

*makes monkey faces*

and SOME people might argue that you go to the doctor because just becuase that's what you THOUGHT you walked in with doesn't mean it WAS what you walked in with, and how are you supposed to get better without knowing what's wrong and how to fix it.
 
posted by [identity profile] chickwriter.livejournal.com at 02:27am on 31/01/2006
What your wife said and then struck out.

DUDE - that's what you go to the doctor FOR!
 
posted by [identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com at 02:33am on 31/01/2006
Yeah, I know, I know, but I'm going to catch crap for having not come back to work and then for having another appointment to go to.
 
posted by [identity profile] kraada.livejournal.com at 02:40am on 31/01/2006
And your boss is going to have the most annoying stone in his shoe that he can't get rid of all day.

Turns out it was in his sock, but you won't tell him, will you? >:->

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