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[RocksmySocks]

Hehe, thanks, Pigquet! That's great that you have such good doctors. I'm really glad to hear that. But I am sorry it took so long for them to figure out the milk thing (or rather, to listen to you about it).

Yeah, it just depends on the doctor. I'm dealing with university health center doctors, which are not exactly top-pier doctors. There are many doctors who are great at listening. I'm just stuck with the doctors that my teaching assistant health insurance covers. Doctors that couldn't really make it in real clinics or hospitals, mostly.

Oh well. Sorry again for my rant...*sheepish grin*


-Katie :ahoy:


(and you are right - I would love it if I was wrong about the gallbladder thing...I am really terrified of surgery. The evidence is pretty heaping though that I have some sort of gallbladder condition, even if some of my doctors are skeptical.)

[CraazyOne]

Ugh. I think everyone has horror stories with doctors. Mostly because it seems that some doctors like to think they know everything when of course they don't.

Aw, Katie, that's awful. I haven't had doctors THAT bad. Yeah, come back when you're in pain again, my butt! That's just retarded. My problem is mostly just having doctors who obviously don't know what's wrong with me and then recommend some different things I can try...and then, of course, if the treatment doesn't work, I must have something else wrong with me and I'll get to go in again and get passed along to another doctor. Couldn't they just do an ultrasound, or run some other test, so we knew for certain what was wrong instead of playing guessing games?

*sigh* Oh, well, can't complain too much; the doctor was very kind and did what he felt was necessary for me at the time.



*cough* Sorry for the huge rant...





~Rachel~

[RocksmySocks]

Aww, Rach, that's too bad. I hope they finally assign a more conclusive test for you.

Yep, there are good doctors and bad doctors.

My first class in grad school was actually through the medical school. Gross Anatomy with the medical students, with real dissections three times a week.

I was doing in through anthroplogy, so we didn't have to go to certain lectures (the clinical lectures), and we'd spend the extra time in dissection. But there were SO MANY of the MED students in the dissection labs during those times! They skipped class all the time. It was terrifying. It was like - wow, and these people could be my DOCTORS?

The anthropology students always get higher marks then the med students on all the exams. And the school I go to is fairly highly ranked as for as medical schools go. Scary though, to think I learned anatomy better than my future doctors did.

After taking a class with medical students, and teaching the pre-med students...well, let me just say again: there are good doctors and bad doctors. I've seen both, in all stages of education.


-Katie :ahoy:


(PS: I agree, Pigquet! It is hard to not get frustrated with your doctor when you are in pain...)

[Mara=^.^=]

Oi oi, that IS scary Katie :blink:


Ya, I know we all have our little medical horror stories. When I had my wisdom teeth removed, they dislocated my jaw, and it's never been the same since. Now my face looks kinda crooked (maybe I'm just sensitive to it). It pops and stuff when I'm chewing sometimes :blink:

Not to mention the fact that they MISSED one of the four wisdom teeth...they dug around for it, but "couldn't get it out" because it was too high up in my jaw. I was like, you had to DESTROY my jaw figuring that out? Couldn't you tell from the X-ray that it was way up there compared to the others?

Moral of the story is, I have a wicked hole in my gum up on the right side of my mouth, and my face was puffed up like a chipmunk for a week on one side for no reason at all. They didn't even get the tooth out.

Then they let me out like 2 minutes after surgery...they didn't even check to make sure I had a ride home. I was stumbling around the hall, drunk out of my mind on anaesthesia (apparently I thought windshield wipers were extremely funny - I don't remember this). It's a good thing my Mom came and picked me up. Could you imagine me trying to drive home in that state?

Anyway, that was my rant. Thanks for reading.

~*Mara*~ = ^.^ =

[RocksmySocks]

Ugh, Mara, that's awful!

That really sucks that the surgeons were not more careful. Absolutely ridiculous. Erg.


And LOL about the windshield wipers. When I woke up from wisdom teeth surgery, I apparently was trying to explain to my mom that the doctors all looked like angels operating on me, and that I knew they weren't, but there was such bright lights behind them...I went on for a while like that.

Then I remember stopping at the pharmacy and staying in the car while my mom picked up my pain medicine. Suddenly the world looked like I was seeing through a kaleidoscope...

Then I can't remember anything more. :P


-Katie :ahoy:

[CraazyOne]

LOL, hilarious. I'm so glad I never had any teeth pulled. I went through the braces and the retainer, but my orthadontist insisted it was unnecessary to pull teeth, even though my mouth was too small to hold 'em all in. Phew! The braces took care of the space issue.

The worst dentist experience I ever had was when they insisted on giving me pain killer even though my mom told them not to. I'd never had it before; I mean, for cavity fillings I never needed it. The shots in my cheek felt like the dentist was squeezing a pair of pliers around a nerve. Then they accidentally got some stuff (forget what) on my tongue, and it tasted straight like vomit. I had to fight not to gag.

I've never feared dentists 'cause I never had teeth pulled, but that experience with that dentist was awful and helped me understand why people dread those appointments. Ugh.






~Rachel~

[CraazyOne]

Though I've never ever had cavities *shrugs*

Ahaha, when I was little, I got them all the time. I was so frustrated, because I was the good little girl who brushed her teeth, and my brother was the nasty one who practically never did...ew...little boys... Yet he never got cavities and I always did. LOL. Maybe that was because my teeth were crammed together in my mouth before braces.

Haha, wow, all your stories about being sedated are so entertaining.

Yeah, Pigquet, dentists have never bothered me. They just clean your teeth, and it feels nice... Doctors scare me, because they're worse about listening and they have to do more poking and prying and testing... *shudder* And then they still don't come to conclusions! :rolleyes:





~Rachel~

[CraazyOne]

I'm pretty sure my problem was the fact that my teeth were crammed together. My mouth was too small to hold 'em in right. I even grew in some nice vampire teeth, because when my adult...eye teeth grew in, there was so little room for them they were up higher than my others.

Ahaha, I hate optometrists (and I'm not sure if I can spell today, hm). I was tossed from one doctor to the other when I was 13 due to some weird pain in my eyes, and they just couldn't find anything wrong or seem to come to any conclusions. One guy told me sinusitus and I was stuck taking Advil for the longest time (and back then I was REALLY bad at taking pills).

I don't know, I just don't like people messing with me. At all. Touch me and diiiiiie! LOL. That's how I feel...



And, oh, crud, we're sooo off-topic it's insane. Sorry, Mara. :P



~Rachel~

[Jimmygang 005]

The day before yesterday, while my mother was working in the Kitchen she Burned herself with really hot water, and we had to take her to the hospital, thanks god that theirs no makers on her body what so ever but she was so in bane that she cried all day, I only see my mom crying when someone dies or something but I never see her crying because of bane before and that was the most baneful thing I ever saw -_- , it was more baneful than the time when I saw my grandfather dying on his death bed.

My mother is a little bit better now she can move around and do stuff, we just need to well make her happy, I think that Jimmy Neutron and some teen titans episodes helped a lot on doing the job :lol:

The reason why I’m telling this is, well Krista is about to leave and theirs a goodbye party for her and Katie is back. And I didn’t post anything. I didn’t want you to think that I don’t care or anything so I hope you understand and I really wanted to get this out from my chest, I’m sorry to tell you my dram it just I really wanted to talk to some one about what happened sorry again.

@Krista: I know that I didn’t know you that much but I really well miss you, I hope you well do better in school and try to come around when you have a free weekend or something. And may I ask you one small question: do you have any idea about when Gwen is going to come back I really missed her

@Katie: neutron knight rat lady, welcome back and I hope you got a wonderful time in Canada ^_^


:) Khalid :)

[Jimmygang 005]

Thanks Pigquet, you are the best example of a good supporting friend, by the way can I ask you something is your real name Pigquet or that just your user name? just wondering

:) Khalid :)

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~*Mara*~ = ^.^ =

I can't believe I missed it... ):

[Beks]

It's ok, Sunny. So did I... :rolleyes:

[sunnstar]

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[RocksmySocks]

WHOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

I AM NOW OFFICIALLY A CERTIFIED IDOJ ADDICT!!!!!!!!


<--------------- *points at member title thingy* LOOK! IT IS ALL SWISHY!



Yay 1200 posts!!! :ahoy: :ahoy: :ahoy: :ahoy:


:lol:


-Katie :ahoy:

[CraazyOne]

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!


You're officially one of us!!!!! Congratulations!

*shoves a pie in your face*

XD







~Rachel~

[Beks]

Go Katie!! ^_^ You're one of us.... :ph43r:


Props for getting here this quickly....It took me a year and a half.. :wacko:

[.:!Gwen!:.]

Golly, I can't even REMEMBER when I got 1200 posts. XD








.:!Gwen!:.

[Beks]

Duh! She's gonna go to Disney World! That's what everyone does! :rolleyes: