Well yesterday it was that time again, "It's that time again!!" every three months to get the usual blood tests, weight check, blood pressure and a chat. Had someone different this time, don't generally like that, you tend to build up a relationship and a re pour with a doctor; and when I see someone different some of the trust goes because they don't know you and sometimes you have to go through your past again.
I'm pretty intuitive and can pick up straight away if someone is really interested in you or your just another number in there daily routine. Believe it or not even though the doctors all learn the same material in their respective fields they often have different remedies and ways of dealing with a patient "go Figure" thank god!!!
For instance on a lighter note during my stay in hospital, during transplants I had bouts of constipation lol, now, I was getting it from both ends, remedies I mean, and nothing was really working then one morning during the rounds I had about 6 surgeons and doctors around my bed, it was mentioned that I was still having troubles, lets bear in mind here, first, that I was having things pushed up northwards every once and awhile and ingesting fluid allot during the day,,,
"How shall we sort this problem!" this surgeon said, wait for it...
"Give him 4 in an hour" then in unison me and the nurse shouted
"FOUR!!!!!" ha ha laughing I said
"your joking, I can't keep one up for five minutes" we all started laughing and he changed his mind.
I had excellent doctors and surgeons apart from two, one made a hatchet of a dressing one day, and another scared me to death by treating me as an object to his students, not even an hello, goodbye or any explanation to what he was doing. might be a slight exaggeration
One time I came back to the ward because of an infection, so they put me in a room of my own. I naturally went to a kidney ward, settled in, spoke to a few nurses and doctors that I knew and then in walked a doctor I'd never seen...
"Hello my name is doctor... you look dehydrated" as he perused my file, clever I thought. Then he said "you may have Kidney Problems, have you had problems before" oh Jesus I thought now does he mean with the transplanted kidney or... so I said something like...
"no not since the transplant" and he replied
" you've had a transplant have you, oh I am sorry let me go away and read your notes"
I couldn't believe it, where am I, is it me, am I dreaming, Jesus!!!! Help!!!! lol, let me out!!!, I've got quite a few like that so you see why I get a bit apprehensive when I see someone different.
Everything was good, Kidney is working fine blood pressure very good. Apart from his remark saying, my kidney is old, what do you call mean old, it's only 3 1/2 years, old!!! old my backside.
