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I hate that question. Mostly, I hate when it's asked as I'm being touched in a way that, yes, hurts like hell.
A couple years ago, my left ear went funny. It felt like it needed to pop, but when I tried to pop it, it felt like my eardrum was being ripped out. So I went to Docs On Call (essentially, it's for very short-notice appointments when one's primary care physician is unavailable) to be seen by someone there. I still don't quite recall if this woman said that her name was 'Tuffie' or "Taffy' or 'Toffee', but it was something like that. I do remember that she was A) wearing a shirt that was very cleavage-inducing and B) either had weirdly long nails or was wearing press-ons.
So, anyway, my dad, who brought me to the appointment, and I go back into the exam room (I'm weird and don't like to go into the exam room by myself if I don't have to. e.e). The following is pretty much what happened.
Me: *explaining my symptoms to her*
Taffy: *listens, doesn't write a blasted thing down* *suddenly reaches over with one finger and taps me sharply on my left temple* Does that hurt?
Me: *recoils in both surprise, annoyance (I hate to be poked, but especially anywhere near or on my face), and pain* Yesthathurts!!!
Taffy: You've got swimmer's ear.
I was in and out in less than 10 minutes. Sent away with no advice on what I should do about my ear and no clue if what she said I had was what I really had or not. I mean, who does that?? The first thing I did when I got home was schedule an appointment with a proper ear-nose-and-throat doctor. He didn't poke me. He looked in my ear, saw that something was a bit off, and proceeded to do a cleaning.
It turned out that Toffee was right and that it was swimmer's ear, but I'm very glad I got a second opinion. Not only was I told what it was, but the doc told me how it's caused and what I can do to prevent it in the future. Also, he gave me a prescription for some medicated ear drops that I had to use twice a day for about two weeks. It cleared things up nicely.
Moral of the story? I'm never going to Docs On Call again.
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This is only the first, and probably most tame, of my medical-related stories. XD I may post a few of the worse ones, because I do have quite a few.
A couple years ago, my left ear went funny. It felt like it needed to pop, but when I tried to pop it, it felt like my eardrum was being ripped out. So I went to Docs On Call (essentially, it's for very short-notice appointments when one's primary care physician is unavailable) to be seen by someone there. I still don't quite recall if this woman said that her name was 'Tuffie' or "Taffy' or 'Toffee', but it was something like that. I do remember that she was A) wearing a shirt that was very cleavage-inducing and B) either had weirdly long nails or was wearing press-ons.
So, anyway, my dad, who brought me to the appointment, and I go back into the exam room (I'm weird and don't like to go into the exam room by myself if I don't have to. e.e). The following is pretty much what happened.
Me: *explaining my symptoms to her*
Taffy: *listens, doesn't write a blasted thing down* *suddenly reaches over with one finger and taps me sharply on my left temple* Does that hurt?
Me: *recoils in both surprise, annoyance (I hate to be poked, but especially anywhere near or on my face), and pain* Yesthathurts!!!
Taffy: You've got swimmer's ear.
I was in and out in less than 10 minutes. Sent away with no advice on what I should do about my ear and no clue if what she said I had was what I really had or not. I mean, who does that?? The first thing I did when I got home was schedule an appointment with a proper ear-nose-and-throat doctor. He didn't poke me. He looked in my ear, saw that something was a bit off, and proceeded to do a cleaning.
It turned out that Toffee was right and that it was swimmer's ear, but I'm very glad I got a second opinion. Not only was I told what it was, but the doc told me how it's caused and what I can do to prevent it in the future. Also, he gave me a prescription for some medicated ear drops that I had to use twice a day for about two weeks. It cleared things up nicely.
Moral of the story? I'm never going to Docs On Call again.
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This is only the first, and probably most tame, of my medical-related stories. XD I may post a few of the worse ones, because I do have quite a few.
How the hell does HE know? I had just had my sinus cavities scraped and thinned and a deviated septum fixed and now he's shoving what's essentially a long string of bandage stuff in a ball in my nose...yeah it hurts!
Oh dear lord. Save me from idiot doctors like this.
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