ainitfunny
Saved, to glorify God.
These medical professionals DO NOT READ YOUR MEDICAL RECORD or know about, or base their advice upon more than what one or two of your health problems are, but feel totally superior to anything you do or say "because THEY are the doctor" to tell you how to solve your medical problems. When you have to gently "remind (read inform) them" that their advice "won't work" because of some other thing they apparently don't know about, they say you keep coming up EXCUSES why everything I advise won't work for everything I recommend!!
You say that at over 76, after 58 years of military medical care, I am toothless, morbidly obese (230lb) because I am too "sedentary" and eat wrong.. No s*** Doc, really? I am in a friggin' wheelchair, brilliant deduction! You say "I'm having you scheduled for educational sessions with a nutritionist and perhaps someone who can recommend an exercise program for you." Well, unless they are telephone appointments, I have no way of getting to a lot of appointments, I went out YESTERDAY, July 5th, my first time out of the house since FEBRUARY! No transportation other than emergency or maybe one appointment a month. Walk more you say? HAVE YOU SEEN THE CAT SCAN OF MY BACK WITH IT'S CRUSHED SPINAL CORD, SIR? NO? That's not your specialty? THAT keeps me from walking, standing, straightening my spine to reach up further than the first kitchen shelf without getting a stun gun shock to my spine. Hey Doc, did you KNOW that besides Type 2 Diabetes, I have had 4 or 5 heart attacks, am told I have congestive heart failure, and COPD ( I don't believe that) and am now having Surgeons telling me I am probably "not a good candidate for surgery". So, with TWO blown rotator cuffs that need surgery, a disintegrating right hip that needs a right hip replacement, and have, rheumatoid arthritis in both hands, biceps that need surgery because they are completely unattached to my arm bones at one end, and peripheral neuropathy rapidly turning both swollen legs and feet numb, plus an abdominal aortic aneurysm that no Doctor even mentions, let alone checks on, to see if it is getting bigger, you think I should be eating more salads, less meat and fat? Ya must have missed the part in my medical records that says I have Collagenous colitis and cannot eat salads, or rmost raw vegetables and few fruits without an uncontrollable, explosive diarrhea event happening about 30 minutes to an hour later? My pelvic SI Joints have been painfully "out" since I fell on ice in front of the MAMC Hospital door 14 years ago. (coughing , sneezing, or tightening stomach muscles, anytime, even sitting, outlines those SI pelvis joints in a thankfully transient but vivid agony of pain)
You Doc, are worried about my cholesterol numbers?, Did you read in my record that I am deathly allergic to cholesterol medications, which swell my throat closed? Are you aware I have obstructive sleep apnea and am on a BI-PAP at night WITH oxygen? Pain is a constant companion in varying degrees from utterly immobilizing down to excruciating and progressively downward to the least amount when I just sit still. My meds keep me just able to tolerate what pain I endure to shower, dress, cook for myself, wash dishes, and wash clothes., I can do a little more but only while sitting in a step-stool chair, not standing or walking. But cheer up, I haven't even got it on the medical record yet that my hearing is going, along with my sense of balance, Any "exercise" would have to be carefully circumscribed to fit mymobility limitations. BUT I CELEBRATE THAT MY EYESIGHT IS GETTING BETTER every day! (i used to be really useless without my glasses (nearsighted) but AGE has made my vision almost 20/20 now!
I really do DO AS MUCH AS I CAN just to "get by" and cope with my situation, THANK GOD he has "carried" me through the most difficult parts, (and he was also probably carrying me through those parts I thought I was sufficient to meet myself)
He makes my spirit SOAR with joy, peace and freedom from worry, fear, and depression when at times the devil whispers I have "every right" to be unhappy, He (God) will respond "Yes, you have 'every right' but I have reserved your right and reasons NOT to be unhappy or fearful, if you do not WANT and choose to be! And so, like now, He
"re-floats my sinking boat!"
You say that at over 76, after 58 years of military medical care, I am toothless, morbidly obese (230lb) because I am too "sedentary" and eat wrong.. No s*** Doc, really? I am in a friggin' wheelchair, brilliant deduction! You say "I'm having you scheduled for educational sessions with a nutritionist and perhaps someone who can recommend an exercise program for you." Well, unless they are telephone appointments, I have no way of getting to a lot of appointments, I went out YESTERDAY, July 5th, my first time out of the house since FEBRUARY! No transportation other than emergency or maybe one appointment a month. Walk more you say? HAVE YOU SEEN THE CAT SCAN OF MY BACK WITH IT'S CRUSHED SPINAL CORD, SIR? NO? That's not your specialty? THAT keeps me from walking, standing, straightening my spine to reach up further than the first kitchen shelf without getting a stun gun shock to my spine. Hey Doc, did you KNOW that besides Type 2 Diabetes, I have had 4 or 5 heart attacks, am told I have congestive heart failure, and COPD ( I don't believe that) and am now having Surgeons telling me I am probably "not a good candidate for surgery". So, with TWO blown rotator cuffs that need surgery, a disintegrating right hip that needs a right hip replacement, and have, rheumatoid arthritis in both hands, biceps that need surgery because they are completely unattached to my arm bones at one end, and peripheral neuropathy rapidly turning both swollen legs and feet numb, plus an abdominal aortic aneurysm that no Doctor even mentions, let alone checks on, to see if it is getting bigger, you think I should be eating more salads, less meat and fat? Ya must have missed the part in my medical records that says I have Collagenous colitis and cannot eat salads, or rmost raw vegetables and few fruits without an uncontrollable, explosive diarrhea event happening about 30 minutes to an hour later? My pelvic SI Joints have been painfully "out" since I fell on ice in front of the MAMC Hospital door 14 years ago. (coughing , sneezing, or tightening stomach muscles, anytime, even sitting, outlines those SI pelvis joints in a thankfully transient but vivid agony of pain)
You Doc, are worried about my cholesterol numbers?, Did you read in my record that I am deathly allergic to cholesterol medications, which swell my throat closed? Are you aware I have obstructive sleep apnea and am on a BI-PAP at night WITH oxygen? Pain is a constant companion in varying degrees from utterly immobilizing down to excruciating and progressively downward to the least amount when I just sit still. My meds keep me just able to tolerate what pain I endure to shower, dress, cook for myself, wash dishes, and wash clothes., I can do a little more but only while sitting in a step-stool chair, not standing or walking. But cheer up, I haven't even got it on the medical record yet that my hearing is going, along with my sense of balance, Any "exercise" would have to be carefully circumscribed to fit mymobility limitations. BUT I CELEBRATE THAT MY EYESIGHT IS GETTING BETTER every day! (i used to be really useless without my glasses (nearsighted) but AGE has made my vision almost 20/20 now!
I really do DO AS MUCH AS I CAN just to "get by" and cope with my situation, THANK GOD he has "carried" me through the most difficult parts, (and he was also probably carrying me through those parts I thought I was sufficient to meet myself)
He makes my spirit SOAR with joy, peace and freedom from worry, fear, and depression when at times the devil whispers I have "every right" to be unhappy, He (God) will respond "Yes, you have 'every right' but I have reserved your right and reasons NOT to be unhappy or fearful, if you do not WANT and choose to be! And so, like now, He
"re-floats my sinking boat!"
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