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Health & Fitness > Annual Check Up
 

Annual Check Up

No, not the car, me. Yesterday I had an appointment for 10:00am but it was 10:45 by the time I got into his exam room. Then I lay on what felt like a morgue slab, covered with a little paper bolero and bath towel sized paper sheet for another 15 minutes before the doc came in. Today my back is killing me. I know it's from his most uncomfortable exam table waiting, stressed and anxious for the most distasteful procedure I have ever experienced......although, I still haven't been for my colonoscopy.... The good news: I only have to endure eight more of these exams before I'm considered too old to get whatever they are searching for. The bad news: I have to endure eight more of these exams. More bad news: I have a mammogram scheduled for Wednesday morning. I wonder how many more of those I have to suffer through. Now I just need to work up the courage to make a dental appointment.

posted on June 29, 2012 11:38 PM ()

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It makes me so angry every time I have to wait thirty minutes inside an exam room before the doctor finally arrives. Why don't they just let us wait in the lobby until the Dr. is ready to see us? I have never been able to figure that one out.
comment by redimpala on July 6, 2012 11:26 AM ()
At least you didn't have to study for that exam
comment by nursekim on July 1, 2012 7:49 AM ()
The colonoscopy itself is a breeze. You're out, you wake up with no pain. The stress is in the prep before the procedure when you drink a gallon of Gatorade and take laxatives. I had to lie down to keep it down. Sucking on honey drops (they are basically liquid) helped with the extreme acidity of the massive amount of Gatorade. The amenities in your doctor's office seem medieval. You might take a pillow with you to the next exam. Maybe they'll get the message. Also, explain about your back. In my case, I take my own blanket because I am hypothermic. Let them just try to get it away.
comment by tealstar on June 30, 2012 10:56 AM ()
Jeri is probably right, but getting old doesn't help either although it beats the alternative. I went for my fourth colonoscopy last month. My heart rate was too low for the meds they typically administer, but since I had traveled so far he agreed to try it with only a small dose. LOL An A-rab doc sticking a hose up a conscious white guy's (well, you know). It wasn't all that uncomfortable actually, although for four years I had been looking forward to the free high.
comment by jjoohhnn on June 30, 2012 8:30 AM ()
It is hell being a woman, in some ways.
comment by elderjane on June 30, 2012 4:08 AM ()
I have never wanted to be anything else and I consider us nobler because of the b.s. we have to put up with.
reply by tealstar on June 30, 2012 10:57 AM ()

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