Adventures in doctoring
Nov. 7th, 2011 01:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisI love my doctor. I praised him on his marketing efforts and allowed as how he has proven he knows how to get repeat business but now I wanted a CURE! He listened to my chest and said that what he heard last week was gone so there's progress oh and my oxygen number is up! Not perfect yet, but better than last week.
I showed him how I was doing the inhaler and he allowed as how I was doing it totally wrong. He tried to show me how to do it right but, apparently, I am inhaler impaired. So now I have a spacer. And I know how to use it!
He had me to this puff test and I failed miserably. "Your numbers stink!"
They hooked me up to a nebulizer for a while and then tried again. Still stink.
So now I have prednizone. And a date to see him next Monday. Except he said it I was feeling 100% by then I could cancel. I am all over that option.
The pharmacists told me the prednizone had to be taken with food and she advised, taken in the morning as it might keep me up at night. "So you might want to wait until tomorrow to start it. Depending on how quickly you want it to start working."
?????? Now, you fool. I want it to start working now!
So I've just taken it and am eating lunch and if it keeps me awake, I'll deal.
I showed him how I was doing the inhaler and he allowed as how I was doing it totally wrong. He tried to show me how to do it right but, apparently, I am inhaler impaired. So now I have a spacer. And I know how to use it!
He had me to this puff test and I failed miserably. "Your numbers stink!"
They hooked me up to a nebulizer for a while and then tried again. Still stink.
So now I have prednizone. And a date to see him next Monday. Except he said it I was feeling 100% by then I could cancel. I am all over that option.
The pharmacists told me the prednizone had to be taken with food and she advised, taken in the morning as it might keep me up at night. "So you might want to wait until tomorrow to start it. Depending on how quickly you want it to start working."
?????? Now, you fool. I want it to start working now!
So I've just taken it and am eating lunch and if it keeps me awake, I'll deal.
