quote:Originally posted by LOA: I just had my yearly appt with the dermo a few weeks ago, and after all of the poking, prodding, and picture taking (including a borderline pornographic one of a mole on my side that I was topless for - my aunt is convinced it's on the net somewhere already...) there were no "problem areas" to be found in the cancer realm. Woot!
Well at least you felt your Dermo did something - I was at my 8-12 monthly visit - and she hardly did much at all. She's so quick (I just hope she knows what she is doing) - this time she didn't even ask me to take off my pants... I actually had to stop her from showing me the door to point out a few things I was interested in having her check (SKIN things PEOPLE! Get your minds out of the gutter!) )
THEN she basically spent the rest of her time gathering n-values for her next journal article... like I wasn't going to suss out what she was doing. I hate that. People utilising others to up their numbers for their work using people who are 'none-the-wiser'. I remember one year in undergrad - a lecturer had a 'prac' and they handed out a piece of paper to record such and such over the next week - so n would probably = ~400... and well of course they probably didn't take into account that most people made up the results and the start of the next prac?
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This isn't the place to complain about a hangnail is it!
Glad you got as good doc Lee. They are few and far between. Probably right about not paying outside of Britton too. Hadn't thought about that, even though I don't know if my insurence would allow me to go there, being in another state. I'd go anyway if it was serious, but I've been fortunate.
I just got my weight down to a resonable 201, from 255. Had some test that turned out to be nothing. A new Doctor found a ten year old lump and got afraid I had cancer. I knew better, but I did the MRI anyway.
With all the heart disease and High Blood Pressure and diabeties that runs in the family, It's a wonder any of use are still alive, but we are 6 for 6. There were six of use kids, and we are all still here. Rqanging from 61 to my 46.
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Well, my pain level is now elevated up to a "4" from a "2" and my doc is honest enough to say "I have no idea why". That sucks- I've been in more pain since I entered the hospital this last time. I'm getting worried about the damage my liver is sustaining due to the (massive) Percocet consumption too.
I'm having outpaitent "surgery" next tuesday- it's technically surgery but it's not invasive: the Doc says he'll knock me out (tough to do with my resistance usually- I was awake for the whole last round in the O.R.) and he'll "debried the wound" (involves taking a sorta X-Acto device and scraping away any necrotic tissue and fibrin). Then he'll do the new procedure wich involves spraying my own red blood cells direcly onto the wound bed. Witchcraft my be involved as well- he's kinda vague on the details.
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Again I feel guilty for doing so well. I've been off the prednisone since Sunday the twenty-somethingth of May, with no problems. Only med I'm still on is 100mg daily of azathioprene. The steroid puff has pretty much gone away, and my waist is back to about 30". Just above my belly button, though, is where things weren't able to hold together post-surgery (yay steroids!), and at some point I have to go in to have the largest hernia my surgeon has ever seen fixed. Followed by six weeks of complete inactivity. So I think I'll do that over winter break, between school terms, and take the time off from work, too. Need to get a custom-fitted cotton duck (read: non-stretchy) corset for after the surgery, too, to hold things together as they heal.
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MRI, so od news for a change. I just took an > MRI, and there is no significant growth from the > last MRI, so yeah!!!
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MRI, so od news for a change. I just took an > MRI, and there is no significant growth from the > last MRI, so yeah!!!
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Well no hospital trip for me, but the apartment complex next to mine caught on fire. Nice traumatic experience.
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quote:I just had my yearly appt with the dermo a few weeks ago, and after all of the poking, prodding, and picture taking (including a borderline pornographic one of a mole on my side that I was topless for - my aunt is convinced it's on the net somewhere already...) there were no "problem areas" to be found in the cancer realm. Woot!
I'll check for any pics, and let you know!!
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I just think it's really sweet that someone thinks a topless photo of her (and probably not even a fully-frontal topless one, given it's presumably taken from the side) is "borderline pornographic."
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