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cornerofmadness1. The classes are over (the bad is yet another student told me the organ with baby kittens falling out of it was the brain)
2. My heart is fine.
The bad? This doctor has seen the last of me. He's an ass. Yeah I made another appointment (mostly because I didn't want them calling). It's not for 6 months so I have plenty of time to find another cardiologist. You could see it in his eyes. I wasn't sick enough to be interesting. I'm not really that sick at all.
Me, being an absent minded idiot, even though i finished inputting info into my blood pressure log, I forgot to print it. I DID have it on my flashdrive in my purse. When I offered it his reply was 'I don't need to see it.'
Then why the fuck did you make me DO three blood pressures a day for a fucking month?!?
My echo hadn't changed in 9 years (which I knew) and he was ready to let it go with that but I was NOT (he was running behind because he'd been called into the ER)
Me: so I have mild tricuspid regurgitation
Him: not unusual in women (I know this but I plan to go over my results point by point and fuck him trying to race off)
Me: but also mild diastolic dysfunction. Is that from sleep apnea (I know it is and my psychiatrist was concerned by this)
Him: yes, see someone to get a sleep study (i.e. not me)
Me: what would cause my diasstolic pressure to be so low (it's been 50-65 most of the time. Normal is 80)? this I didn't know but has gone to mayo clinic to look up. Often it's dehydration which makes sense being diabetic.
Him: could be aortic regurgitation but you didn't have that on echo, could be some athersclerosis but I doubt it (could be though I am diabetic) but we can't do anything about that (okay fair)
Me: did you get my month long (I'm still itching my chest wounds) holter monitor?
Him: yes.
Me: And? It didn't tell me because most patients wouldn't understand it, I know but I want to see what it said.
Him: You're tachycardic
Me: no duh, that's why I've had two echos now, and?
Him: and nothing really. No afib (thank god), no real issues, just tachycardia and a few pauses.
Me: Pauses? From sleep apnea (most likely)
HIm: nothing to worry about. You really need to talk to your endocrinologist, a lot of this is metabolic.
Me: will do (and get that sleep apnea)
Eye roll. Yeah this is the last I'll see of him. Life's too short to deal with uninterested docs.
One month of blood pressures and he didn't care. It's Beltane and a full moon. You're lucky I'm not hexing you.
Came home and the cheap Victorian gown from Amazon was here. And it's actually not bad quality. Certainly something I can build on for my Rosie cosplay. Alas it does button down the front. I have boobs and it gaps open. I can pin it shut. Also doesn't button at the neck just under the chin but that's fair. I can not bear things around my neck. I can put a brooch on that part.
Have some fannish 50 friday recs
Watch Your Step! Teen Wolf
Sect Leader Jiang's 31 step program to happiness
陈情令 | The Untamed
Can’t Go Home Again Torchwood
The Last Dance Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Losing John Inspector George Gently
Worn Hazbin Hotel
Team Work Stargate Atlantis
Anniversary Problems Torchwood
Thursday Afternoons with You The Owl House
Incredible Hazbin Hotel
The Long Road Home The Amazing Digital Circus
listen carefully to the sound of your loneliness Helluva Boss
To Ease The Pain Torchwood
Secrets in the Shadows Hazbin Hotel
Held Hazbin Hotel
no one can dream for you 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
2. My heart is fine.
The bad? This doctor has seen the last of me. He's an ass. Yeah I made another appointment (mostly because I didn't want them calling). It's not for 6 months so I have plenty of time to find another cardiologist. You could see it in his eyes. I wasn't sick enough to be interesting. I'm not really that sick at all.
Me, being an absent minded idiot, even though i finished inputting info into my blood pressure log, I forgot to print it. I DID have it on my flashdrive in my purse. When I offered it his reply was 'I don't need to see it.'
Then why the fuck did you make me DO three blood pressures a day for a fucking month?!?
My echo hadn't changed in 9 years (which I knew) and he was ready to let it go with that but I was NOT (he was running behind because he'd been called into the ER)
Me: so I have mild tricuspid regurgitation
Him: not unusual in women (I know this but I plan to go over my results point by point and fuck him trying to race off)
Me: but also mild diastolic dysfunction. Is that from sleep apnea (I know it is and my psychiatrist was concerned by this)
Him: yes, see someone to get a sleep study (i.e. not me)
Me: what would cause my diasstolic pressure to be so low (it's been 50-65 most of the time. Normal is 80)? this I didn't know but has gone to mayo clinic to look up. Often it's dehydration which makes sense being diabetic.
Him: could be aortic regurgitation but you didn't have that on echo, could be some athersclerosis but I doubt it (could be though I am diabetic) but we can't do anything about that (okay fair)
Me: did you get my month long (I'm still itching my chest wounds) holter monitor?
Him: yes.
Me: And? It didn't tell me because most patients wouldn't understand it, I know but I want to see what it said.
Him: You're tachycardic
Me: no duh, that's why I've had two echos now, and?
Him: and nothing really. No afib (thank god), no real issues, just tachycardia and a few pauses.
Me: Pauses? From sleep apnea (most likely)
HIm: nothing to worry about. You really need to talk to your endocrinologist, a lot of this is metabolic.
Me: will do (and get that sleep apnea)
Eye roll. Yeah this is the last I'll see of him. Life's too short to deal with uninterested docs.
One month of blood pressures and he didn't care. It's Beltane and a full moon. You're lucky I'm not hexing you.
Came home and the cheap Victorian gown from Amazon was here. And it's actually not bad quality. Certainly something I can build on for my Rosie cosplay. Alas it does button down the front. I have boobs and it gaps open. I can pin it shut. Also doesn't button at the neck just under the chin but that's fair. I can not bear things around my neck. I can put a brooch on that part.
Have some fannish 50 friday recs
Watch Your Step! Teen Wolf
Sect Leader Jiang's 31 step program to happiness
陈情令 | The Untamed
Can’t Go Home Again Torchwood
The Last Dance Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Losing John Inspector George Gently
Worn Hazbin Hotel
Team Work Stargate Atlantis
Anniversary Problems Torchwood
Thursday Afternoons with You The Owl House
Incredible Hazbin Hotel
The Long Road Home The Amazing Digital Circus
listen carefully to the sound of your loneliness Helluva Boss
To Ease The Pain Torchwood
Secrets in the Shadows Hazbin Hotel
Held Hazbin Hotel
no one can dream for you 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
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