At the doc's

I went to the doc this morning. I didn't have to wait very long; maybe about 15 minutes. In the waiting room, some lady was screaming into her phone, some other person was yelling at the receptionist over a different doctor, and some other woman came in with pneumonia and decided to talk to everyone. Then she turned on the TV and put it really loud. God, I hate the doctor's office.

Anyway, once in the office, I asked the Dr. about the whole Sjogren's syndrome thing and he asked me a few questions, too. Like, dry eyes, dry mouth, stuff like that. I told him some of it, but again he was in a huge rush ("Sorry for the wait; my last patient was very sick and has to come back later too, so...") He poked around all my lymph nodes to make sure that the palpable ones hadn't gotten any bigger (they haven't.) I asked him to check out a new one I started to be able to feel in the hinge of my jaw. (I also started to notice that around the time that Adam Yauch passed from salivary gland cancer. That was a week-long panic attack.) He said that one was nothing to worry about.

He asked if I'd had blood tests recently. I told him I had, but hadn't got the results yet and I'd asked them to fax the results to him once they came in.

He said, "If you do have it, then it's very low-grade." He gave me a number for a rheumatologist and I was out the door in five minutes.

Now I'm kind of debating whether or not to pursue it. He didn't seem too worried about anything and said my symptoms were really mild. Do I really want to bother with another doctor? On the other hand, I keep thinking of all those stories you hear when someone goes to a doctor for some little, minor thing, gets a referral to a specialist "just to put your mind at ease" and they find some weird, random, House-like thing just in time. And then they say, "Thank goodness I decided to go!"

Maybe I'll wait for my blood test results, and if those are all peachy, I'll just forget about it unless it gets worse. I mean I have so many damn appointments, maybe that's the reasonable thing to do.

So tomorrow I have to take Haku to the vets, then Friday I have to take Haku (and me) to the chiropractor, then Monday I am having my first acupuncture session, and Thursday, another doctor, this one way the hell in Stonybrook. I'm pissed because I swore I'd never go back to that place after they gave me a ticket for parking in a regular parking lot. I even fought them like a bastard over it, but they said that if I didn't pay the fine, I wouldn't be able to register my car. So I was like, "Eff them, I'm never going there again for any reason," except, well, it's a massive hospital/school/tons of other things and I guess that was unrealistic. I'll probably have to pay the same amount as the fine just to park there for the day.

Eff them in the earhole, seriously.

Keyword searches

Now for some keyword searches.

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And that concludes this episode of Keyword Search replies. :D