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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] "Nim's Patented [i]Swedish Funk[/i]: available wherever [i]Ricolla[/i] is sold..." So, the best laid plans of mice and ...er...[i]me[/i], do oft go arwy, and I found myself in a world of sleepless pain last night. This is readily solved by a combonation of Percocet, Methadone and (strangely enough) Pina Collada drink (the sugar activates the drugs). Annnnnd I overslept a bit. <small>four hours</small> I did manage to call several times and explain my situation and needs to the nurse's answering machine- no reply as of yet. :rolleyes: Worse still- I have to work the next two days in the mornings (7-7pm shift) and, while that precludes any ranting in the waiting room, it [i]does[/i] allow me a chance to schedule a real appointment with my Doctor (if I raise hell with the poor scheduling woman that has minimal english skills, yet is in charge of calling paitents- she cals me "Yeason Cawwell"). LOA, I [i]tried[/i] seeing other doctors (closer to home and with years of experience) and they all tell me to go to Cedars Hospital because only [i]they[/i] deal in exotic crap like mine. My doctor runs the dermatology department at Cedars: all my (local) referrals go in a big circle. I have yet to grasp the art of contating specialists in other hospitals abroad without a doctor's referral- it's a brick wall of bueracracy that would make the IRS proud. Also, when inquiring about dermatologists, there is the difficulty in sifting through the majority that deal with acne or botox for a living- [i]surgical[/i] dermatology is far more rare and stuff dealing with unusual/severe cases, even moreso. Going through Blue Cross, only gives me lists of available (covered) doctors. Going online yields two kinds of results- the ones that start out with [i]"Not much is known about pyoderma gangrenosum..."[/i] or [i]"...was cured by (insert treatment I [i]allready[/i] failed) in a few months"[/i]. I think I may have to look at this from another angle and start ruling out the disease's most likely causes with specialists in [i]those[/i] fields to be certain the tests performed on me to rule them out were not in error somehow. That means getting re-tested for Diabetes, Cancer and Chrohn's Disease/Inflamatory Bowel Syndrome (almost [i]certainly[/i] not this last- my stomach's fine and I can crap...er...like a fox?). [i]Or[/i] I could go the route my doctor and I tried last time the insurance company balked at a treatment (for Humeria): stick me in the hospital for a week and let them eat several thousand dollars of I.V. meds and special request room-service (Cedars makes a mean cheeseburger but what they call french fries is a culinary [i]crime[/i]). Anyone got any [i]good[/i] news? Loa? [i]You[/i] feeling better (hopefully!)? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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