whats a woman to do? thank God for memories i reckon.
--- On Wed, 11/10/10, Akua <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Akua <[email protected]> > Subject: [TMIC] Tests I should have gotten > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 7:20 PM > I am most annoyed when people tell me > how i should advocate for myself. > One can only ask for what one knows to ask for. > > I knew I needed a blood test and insisted on it last spring > from which > the doctor told me that i was anemic, and Vitamind D > deficient. > Thanks doc, for bothering to find that out yourself. > > I shared how I finally met someone who cared on iota > -- a physiatrist who ordered 3 tests, of which i only got > two because the hospital messed > up-- bone density and an ultrasound. > & who said that being in the chair for years now (sob) > may have attendant > deficits. > > The test I missed is pulmonary function. > > Sadly this is true. Yesterday I was at my GP who asked me > who ordered these tests. > I didn't answer-- she could see who did what she should or > could have done and didn't do-- > but it was she i had to come to, to get the results. > > I have osteopenia and (maybe) a fatty liver. For the > o. she prescribed Fosomax. For the liver she's sending > me to a GI guy, because she said nothing in my blood > work nor my > great cholesterol indicate that I have a fatty liver and > with none of the symptoms, there's > nothing she could prescribe to treat it. Kind of what i > thought-- this is year 38 without > meat, soda, fast food, and year 18 without pizza, cheese, > ice cream ( because of lactose intolerance). > > So what's a woman to do? > > Akua > -- >
