I just got a 'your results have come back and can we please see you?' call from my doctors'. I say doctors' because I did the trust-exercise equivalent of throwing my medical-support for health needs backward into the arms of a conglomerate of GPs located within the reclaimed soil of mall-based shopping. Except I left my film from my MRI with the MRI peeps so have to get that first. So I put off going in for the results until tomorrow so I can talk about the MRI too. You know ... kill two birds and all dat.
I confess I'm a little worried. But then maybe it's just actual positive pro-active doctoring?—'Patient X wanted to know if Y was a thing. Y is a thing, it's small, but he wanted to know. Please call Patient X to see me, Doctor Z, about the Y thing. A thing that's small now but something that needs to be watched. Or even probed; a biopsy perhaps? Wait, I don't want to ruin it. Just get X into Z to talk about Y. Yes, and Z is me.'
Oh Lordy...
UPDATE: It's the next day. The call was about my MRI results as well as some blood test results. I've torn the cartilage in my right knee. I need to rest to let it heal and to potentially see a physio. Fortunately for me, because theWife strapped it for three days the knee's gotten better. As for blood I have a Vitamin D deficiency—and it turns out one of the downsides is your immune system going to the shit and making you feel generally run down. Which is now. My cholesterol level has shot up two points in six months. It's now 6.3. That's do-something-about-it-territory.
So normal worrying. Not super worrying. Though I fully amid to heart hammer before I went in.
UPDATE: It's the next day. The call was about my MRI results as well as some blood test results. I've torn the cartilage in my right knee. I need to rest to let it heal and to potentially see a physio. Fortunately for me, because theWife strapped it for three days the knee's gotten better. As for blood I have a Vitamin D deficiency—and it turns out one of the downsides is your immune system going to the shit and making you feel generally run down. Which is now. My cholesterol level has shot up two points in six months. It's now 6.3. That's do-something-about-it-territory.
So normal worrying. Not super worrying. Though I fully amid to heart hammer before I went in.
I've had that message on my answering machine before, and it's turned out to be nothing much at all. I know others who have too. I think they need to tell you even if it's something minor, but in the meantime the stress it causes you... yeah. Try to relax.
ReplyDeletePS Doctors doesn't need an apostrophe in the first or the second sentence. Unless you're using it as a possessive and implying the word 'office'? I'd just go with doctors, plural, and leave it at that.
(Sorry! You posted previously about word-obsessed freaks coming out of the woodwork ... and here I am!)
Yeah I meant it as their office but you know how you don't say office but imply it by way of context and/or tone?
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting that they call up for minor stuff. That made me feel less worried.