dazzledfirestar

I am no longer allowed to think about calling past doctors and telling them a great big "I told you so!".

What's this Final Fantasy thing all about?

Fredericton NB

Not everywhere in Canada, hun. Here in Alberta, it's eighteen, so I'll just draw the comparison. I went out for a fabulously lush meal with the family, then hooked up with the few friends I had that had already hit the ripe old age and we painted the town red! I was smart enough thankfully not to get out of hand drunk (I wanted to remember something, after all! lol) but there were many beers, and many shots. After the bars closed we all headed up to the river valley and watched the sun come up. Then there was a Denny's breakfast, and sleep for the rest of the day. This was obviously the weekend bit of my birthday. The actual day I spent writing my Math 30 and Bio 30 diploma exams. That part blew.

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Dribbled

I plead the fifth... wait we don't have that here... crap... okay. I have. I have never been prescribed more than four different antibiotics for the same infection.

Nope. Just thought I'd pop in and screw everyone up! Leon?

Guilty. G/NG - distrusts the medical profession.

Keith Richards

Sure. Why not?

Because it's the only time one's reflexes can handle it. Why?

I am no longer allowed to keep myself awake with coughing and wheezing.

Well, then, Red... lets see how you do with our fair country! Cities/Towns in Canada! Abbotsford, BC

What About Your Friends? - TLC

The good drugs.

I could clear up any infection... *coughhack* *sigh* If I were a tonsil...

^ Is actually right. < Was never much into the maths. V Was or is a math "geek"

Don't Let Me Get Me (song)

I am realising that being sick and having a baby sucks. I am unable to speak. I am unable to sleep as the coughing is keeping me awake. I am unable to find a drug in the house strong enough to knock me out. I am bloody miserable. *snifflehackweeze*

Thanks for posting this, Nan. I needed the giggle!

See now, I'm a gemini... does that mean I have a license to be two jackasses?

Personally, my distrust of the medical profession in general (I will not limit this to doctors) comes from personal experience. I've been dealing with doctors regularly since I was a very young child and it seems that the attitude is because they went to school for so long, they know my body better than I do. I have a problem with this. Case in point; while in labor with my son, I tried to tell the doctor, and the nurses that my blood sugar levels were dropping (I'm diabetic for anyone who didn't know that) and they ignored me. What's worse, they turned up the amount of insulin I was receiving! Can you imagine what happened next? When my husband finally convinced they to 1) treat the hypoglycemia and 2) stop turning up the amount of freakin' insulin I was hovering around 2.1 (I don't know what the American equivalent is, so forgive me). Needless to say, I was not pleased. And this is just one example. I've got 25 years of stories like this (to one extent or another) that I could tell you. Perhaps, I've been unlucky. I've only had one doctor I've actually trusted, and that was because she trusted me. She knew I am not an idiot, and I know when something doesn't feel right, or isn't as it normally should be. There are good doctors and nurses out there, I have no doubt about that, but as Trae said, far too many are treating it like an assembly line. Not everyone is a textbook case.*sigh* I'll stop ranting now.

I am a summer baby... very much so actually, because my birthday tends to fall on the first day of summer.