Had a 4 pm appt with Dr Sands. This would be the first time I would leave my bed - and walk - othan to the bathroom a short vanish - in more than a week. The pain during my left leg is excruciating. Only by lying on my belly can it subside.
Walked on the stairs, keeping the wall, then out thru the doorway.
I'll go the good way, I believed to Scott, who walked past my side. I wore a good skirt - much easier to put on than pants - two sweaters - and a couple of little socklets I got from Aunt Selma on my small vacation to Cleveland. Shoes were out, excruciating to consider and off.
Scott opened a corner door of my car, I flung myself inside on my belly, and scrunched upward on the door.
I'm in, I said, bending my knees upward.
He slammed the threshold so we were off.
I were required to be sure he understands the best way to get to the dr's office, which meant hunching up on my own elbows and peeking out in the world through the backseat.
How neat! I told him the special approach to take...Mill Road, which got us onto Easton Road faster.
He had the handicap placard from my glove compartment swinging for the rearview meer and we parked for the reason that blue zone.
It was a good painful wait but finally we were taken back. My bloodpressure was taken and it was normal, unlike in the ER when it was quite high. I'd lost 7 pounds in a week. Not that Scott doesn't feed me.
They also asked me when I planned to schedule my next eye appt.
Soon Dr Sands came in. He inspires confidence. His stethoscope is always engrossed in something quirky. Today it appeared as if a very fancy tallis or yalmulcha. He wears very comfy shoes. He's the no. 2 man inside practice underneath the head, Dr Morris Gross or Weiss, I forget which name.
You know what? I thought to myself this handicap parking permit morning.
We all wish to be great. Or at least, some of us do. I definitely. How do we measure greatness? I think Bill Hess is extremely good. Visit his blog. Tell him Ruthie sent you.
Dr Sands sits w/his laptop on his lap and peers at you under his specs. He's a small comedian. I'm looking right at him from my belly. But I'm centered inside my head cuz this is where our minds our..our mind, which includes taken second location to our left leg.
They keep good records on his or her computer at North Willow Grove Family Medicine. The results coming from all my messages or calls are saved to there.
I ascertain that my regular doctor is on a break, staying home along with his little son.
He's handicap parking permit gonna prescribe me Prednisone, which he believes will alleviate this. He leaves the space a moment and presto he returns with a typed-up scrip for Prez plus sample packets of your laxative he believes will end a 6-day seige, sort of interior Battle with the Alamo. POW POW POW!
I shuffle out, pay my $20 co-pay, go to their water fountain and drink an enormous cup of water.
SUFFERING makes me thirsty.
As we drive out, we ponder what drugstore to head to..closest.
Ah! How bout the Willow Grove Giant. So Scott fills the prescription, covers a number of groceries while waiting, and comes home on the car.
At dinnertime, I make precious pills BUT RUTHIE FAILS TO FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS.
I take ONE Prednisone pill as an alternative to SIX. And claim to feel substantially better inside morning. "Placebo effect" cries Ada Fleisher correctly.
So following day, today, I take all six of em at noon, five hours ago. Am doing fine. No perceptible changes tho I haven't subjected myself to walking.
Then I read handicap placard the bottle label. And realize something important. What's the schedule with the six? Three in the morning, three inside the evening?
I call the Giant Pharmacy whose no. is posted very legibly around the bottle. The pharmacist assures me it's fine. I can hear him working inside background. Always working. Did they expect the Miners to operate in the 33 days of their captivity?
That's where we stand. A message to any or all you sick folks, including depressed sick people: You mustn't feel guilty for being sick. It's not your fault. Do what you could as long as you're sick. That includes eating canned chicken soup directly out with the can w/o adding extra water.