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Old 02-24-2010, 09:42 PM
dahlek dahlek is offline
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dahlek dahlek is offline
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Location: metro DC suburbs
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Default CALL! And see if you can be fit in for a cancellation!

While things are 'hot' so to speak? I know what you're going thru, and it can scare you spitless? But the best thing YOU can do is keep a short simple steno pad next to you and outline date and TIME each new 'quirk' is popping up. Believe me, docs have short attention spans and you need to keep all panic out of your own 'assessment of yourself'. Essentially, you need to sell your 'case' to the doc as a real and honest one. THEN Say you're scared spitless. That way, docs KNOW you can and DO think clearly and are learning that you know enuf, tho not all,....NOT to be snowed by 'fat words'. When such 'words' are thrown out? I hand them my 'steno pad' and ask them to print whatever out CLEARLY. WOW! You'll understand their faces if you get the fat word speil....
Explain to the docs office that you are seeming to 'go downhill fast' and if you don't get a call-back that day? Call the next and cite the TIME you called the day before etc First in the AM then in the PM and keep doing it!... Seeing a doc in the offices is far, far less stressful than in an ER! Trust me, and others here on that!
My heart and a bit of strength that I can spare are with you! Hope and soon! Tho it may seem that glaciers move more rapidly than diagnoses! 's - j
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