jebbypal: (bsg helo)
In no particular order...(and wow, i may have posted more this month than I did all year)

1) NJ rubberneckers need a swift slap upside the head. 20 minute backup on a 3-4 mile stretch of road because...all 3 lanes were open but they had construction trucks blocking lanes on opposite lanes. *head desk*

2) Realization that why the GOP and Trump suddenly love Russia is (a) it is no longer hostile to christianity in the post-communist era, (b) it is now basically an ode to Ayn Rand since (c) a person or a business can do pretty much anything they want as long as they know which person to pay homage to without regard to petty things like regulations (I presume. if the russian epa is strict, then my bad). this has somewhat helped my cognizant whiplash from the days when republicans branded all liberal democrats as red commie socialists.

3) I felt less bad about my impulse buy of a new laptop when I realized that my current desktop is 6+ years old which probably explains a lot about its creakiness. I'm not getting rid of it, but I feel like half my writers block is (a) dislike of typing on ipad and getting frustrated every time one of its wireless keyboards I like breaks and (b) not wanting to type on desktop in dead of winter since it's in the coldest room in the house.

4) Coworkers in the medical department at work (healthcare advertising firm) made me realize once again how much I dislike many healthcare professionals approach to their jobs and why i'm thankful i got the phd instead of the MD otherwise I'd be the female version of House. In complaining about winter or something, somehow SADD came up and the almost decade my junior pharmacist female coworker said how she never believed in SADD and felt like it was a cop out for people to be lazy in the winter. At which point our decade older than me male boss who is a former ER physician concurred. *head desk* Lovely how with your lack of actual psychology training you've decided to basically poo poo a diagnosable medical condition as "all in their head". This is why people who actually have health issues hate doctors. *head desk*

Enough ranting. need to go do some work since I will be meetings during day tomorrow before a piece we have is due to client with comments incorported.
jebbypal: (bn awkward)
Oy vey.

It's never a good sign when you reveal to a doctor your phd in immunology, and their response is a story about how complicated that they find the complement system to be (critical for innate immunity and clotting). Or when you make offhand remark that you specialized in autoimmunity rather than allergy, and they say that maybe you can explain the issues that they are having.

*head desk*

When I told him I had diagnosed corn allergy, his response: "wow, not to say that you're wrong, but that's really rare, and I have busy practice and have never had a case myself". At this point, I started thinking that a part of healthcare reform should be to allow patients to interview doctors before actually having to reimburse them or pay a copay. Becuase I just wasted half an hour of my life.

To my description of GI reactions lasting for 6-8 hours, "Well, that's probably just a food intolerance as that's not an allergic response".

He's very keen to do allergy testing, preferably skin, as he definitely doubts this and he basically called my previous UPenn allergist stupid when I said that he hadn't done a skin test after hearing my description of my GI reactions for fear of sensitizing me to anaphylactic responses. And he's asked me to drive over to see him the next time I have an inhallation reaction to the bagel days. (Hey, fleshlycherry, you want to pop popcorn the monday before you leave and then you can drop me off at his office :P:P).

I was definitely brain fogged since I stupidly tried new marinara sauce Sunday night and gave myself a GI reaction that required benadryl, otherwise, I don't think I would have been anywhere near as pleasant to him (and I was..was in my talk too fast try to explain myself because we obviously speak different languages mode...and no, he wasn't foreign, english was his first language. Just one of those very inept docs that couldn't even read my body language and kept interrupting me).

So what I got out of this other than the fact that I'm a very intelligent girl who has probably connected the dots between disparate unrelated causes and symptoms, and that I need to make sure I don't let this whole breathing problem interfere with my work environment:
-prescription for xyzal
-assurance that I don't overall have asthma as my lung function tests when not irrated by corny bagels is 98%
-prescription for singular which is probably too expensive to get compounded and I don't think I want to be taking that much medicine anyways! I'm fine as long as I don't have to sit in corny air.
-paperwork for allergy blood tests since my benadryl the night before prevents a skin test

I was starting to get snarky enough that before I left (after he asked me to come over the next time I had a reaction and I replied that my reactions do clear when I get away from allergen polluted air), that I did offer to let him pop a bag of popcorn and see what happens. He didn't take me up on it.

It's a good thing that I actually like paychecks, because idiots like that tempt me to go back to med school at times.

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