Random healthcare thread

[YamiNoHime]

HIPAA is a blessing and a curse

[ladyjaneinmd]

After all that, how is your sister's heart? Has it stopped pounding yet?

Yeah, she's calmed down now. We did have a good laugh over it, eventually.

[Ironclad Alibi]

After all that, how is your sister's heart? Has it stopped pounding yet?

[ladyjaneinmd]

Here's a funny story that I'm sure y'all will appreciate. This year I added a cardiologist to my collection of 'doctors that I see'. No, there's nothing wrong with my heart, but at 59, and an 'old fat diabetic', it was worth getting checked, just to see.
For the record, my heart is FINE. No problems.
BUT.... I live in Maryland. I work in a very large cube farm, and in my new office, my cell phone has little to no signal. The cardiologist's office tried to call me (to let me know that an appointment needed to be rescheduled), and they called my cell phone - and the call never went through.
So they called MY SISTER - IN OHIO. Because of regulations, they couldn't tell her why, but they said, 'This is your sister's cardiologist. We're trying to reach her.'
My sister is not easily freaked. She is a former nurse, and knows our family genes well. However, a call like THAT, for her 'old fat diabetic' sister, had her in a panic! Poor girl.
It was a wild afternoon. I had to call the cardiologist's office, then let my poor shaking sister know what was up.
Yeah, we're not going to forget this anytime soon.
My Heart Is FINE. NO problems.

[YamiNoHime]

I always get mine. I work in a doctor's office. Between immune compromised patients and the hygiene impaired, I need it

[greek_jester]

Didn't get a whole lot done today but ... I got the shot!

(Flu vaccine )

I'm quite lucky as my work organises it for all of us every year (unless you're in certain professions or "at risk" you have to buy one at a chemist). Needle-phobic or not, I still get them, even though my at-risk mum and step-dad have passed away. You never know if that person you're standing behind in the shop has a compromised immune system.

[AccountingDrone]

Didn't get a whole lot done today but ... I got the shot!

(Flu vaccine )

Got my flu shot a few weeks ago. I am peeved that thanks to the chemo trashing my immune system I am 'encouraged' to get all my innoculations all over again [sigh - I actually had all the childhood diseases as a child and then the school system back in the mid 60s wouldn't let any kid go that didn't have their shots, so for several years the first day of school they would line everybody up and give us all shots, and the pink goop on the sugar cube of the polio vaccine. At least we got a sugar cube...]

[Pixelated]

Didn't get a whole lot done today but ... I got the shot!

(Flu vaccine )

[Seanette]

DH is recovering surprisingly well from his broken leg. In the last couple of days, he's even taken unaided steps and reports little pain from this. He's still got a long way to go, though.

[Pixelated]

I've come down with something really annoying ... possible fever (can't find my thermometer), no appetite (which means I'm also not taking my metformin), and general crappiness. I think I might be getting over it finally (Day 3); I'm sitting here eating a bowl of cereal so I can take some aspirins and and also the metformin. I'm supposed to go to work tomorrow, but I suspect I'll be calling in early and telling them I'm not coming in. Don't wanna push my luck. The only thing I plan to do is head for the drugstore and buy some orange juice, more aspirins, and a few other OTC meds.

[jedimaster91]

I've been taking a kenpo karate workout class and the other day I landed a jump on the side of my foot instead of the right way. Thought it was ok, just sore since I was able to walk out on it. Couple hours later one side is swollen to the point I couldn't tell if it was just swelling or if I've actually dislocated or broken something. Off to the ER for xrays since urgent care was closed by then. Thankfully no fractures or dislocations; just a nasty sprain. I'm confined to a boot for the next couple weeks with instructions for "no ninja stuff" until it heals up.

[LadyofArc]

ADHD is not always "ooh look! squirrel!" Sometimes it can be "Holy shit, I wanna get off this rollercoaster, but the seatbelt is fastened too tightly, how do I stop?!"

[greek_jester]

Kidney infections really f@&$ing hurt, and I had forgotten how much "fun" fever dreams are.

[MoonCat]

Goddammit, frozen shoulder is not supposed to recur on the same side.

Not that I want it on the other side, which....also might be happening.

[LadyofArc]

- To ensure we don't discriminate according to race, gender, sexuality, religion or whether you love or hate Marmite... (I answered white mixed (i.e. mongrel) and I love Marmite).

- Have you ever suffered from any neurological, degenerative muscular or dropped on your head as a baby syndrome...

I think she was trying to work out if I was listening! There was an unexpectedly high amount of giggling in this interview...

Kudos to that receptionist! It's also a good talking point I imagine and a good way to break the ice (for the record, I love Vegemite [Marmite's Down Under Cousin])

I love having health professionals who try to lighten the mood. I just wish I didn't have to see so many of them on such a regular basis...

I do too. I also encounter a few of these at work. If they're up for a bit of a laugh, it also makes my job easier.

When ANYBODY splits their forehead open it bleeds like a son of a bitch...

Not quite the forehead, but my sister hit her head just around her eyebrow on the corner of her dollhouse when she was four and had to have some steri-strips (no stitches thankfully). It did bleed like a bitch though.

On the other hand, look at the miracles of modern medicine. Mick Jagger had a valve replacement and he doesn't have a 9" scar in the center of his chest.

Yup. My mum had to have a loop device implanted recently. My reaction to that was "So you're now part-cyborg?" (Loop device = records abnormal heart rhythms)