Pee reject
Every year before my annual exam, my Doctor sends me to the lab for blood and urine samples. The latter is always stressful in that I'm not good with peeing on demand and even worse on peeing into the container with the tiny mouth they give you. So, a few years ago I started packing my own pee. I have an old pimento jar that I keep just for that purpose. Fits nicely into a plastic bag and then into a bag I can carry into the lab as a purse. This morning I was armed and ready.
And they said the doctor ordered blood only. Fuck. That means he forgot to add the urine tests to the request and I'll have to do it all again next week.
And then I thought, fuck that. He can wait til next year. He is not the boss of me. If he wants pee, he needs to ask nicely and in a timely manner. I like my doctor but not as much as I used to. And I'm liking his staff way less.
After I got my tubes tied in the early 80's, I gave up doctors. No need. I decided after I turned 60 that maybe I should line one up in case I needed one for old age things. I have needed one here and there but, fortunately, not lately. I'm not going back to the no doc days but I'm over the dowhateverhewants stage.
The blood draw lady was annoyed. She couldn't find any veins at all. I assured her they were in there. It usually takes a few sticks to get action and as long as they don't try it in my hand, I'm fine. But she pushed around with her fingers and finally found something and hit it on the first try and got all she needed pretty darned quickly. It was impressive and I told her so. Plus, I just finally got that bandage off and she didn't even leave a bruise. Nice.
So that's all done. My appointment is Tuesday morning - after swimming.
The facebook account is all set up and turned to mute. I have no plans to follow people. In the past there have been groups that it would have been nice to have access to and that's why I set it up, in case one of those groups comes along again. Until then, I'll leave it alone and let it sleep.
Also, I have no plans to leave Live Journal.
I gave a passing thought to going swimming after I got home but it was 23 degrees out. It's warmed up to 29 now but I think I'll just stay here and do laundry. Tomorrow and Sunday are supposed to be warmer AND the pool doesn't open until 8 anyway so better all around.
Oh! just got test results back. The A1C is the one I always worry about because he gets so intense about it. I'm higher than last year but exact same nums as 2014 and 2015 so whew. He'll tell me to stop eating white stuff (bread and rice) and I will say ok and not stop and next year it will be a little better. Been there, lived through it. My cholesterol numbers are a little higher. Not surprising. Everything else is pretty much in range and like previous years.
This year there's a Uric acid test. He used to get that reading from the urine test. Wonder if that's why my pee was unwanted. Hmmmmm
This morning will be little things, vacuuming around the litter box, doing at least one load of laundry, making a trip down to the dumpsters. Stuff like that.
But first I need to empty out my pimento jar and store it away for next year when maybe I won't even need it!
And they said the doctor ordered blood only. Fuck. That means he forgot to add the urine tests to the request and I'll have to do it all again next week.
And then I thought, fuck that. He can wait til next year. He is not the boss of me. If he wants pee, he needs to ask nicely and in a timely manner. I like my doctor but not as much as I used to. And I'm liking his staff way less.
After I got my tubes tied in the early 80's, I gave up doctors. No need. I decided after I turned 60 that maybe I should line one up in case I needed one for old age things. I have needed one here and there but, fortunately, not lately. I'm not going back to the no doc days but I'm over the dowhateverhewants stage.
The blood draw lady was annoyed. She couldn't find any veins at all. I assured her they were in there. It usually takes a few sticks to get action and as long as they don't try it in my hand, I'm fine. But she pushed around with her fingers and finally found something and hit it on the first try and got all she needed pretty darned quickly. It was impressive and I told her so. Plus, I just finally got that bandage off and she didn't even leave a bruise. Nice.
So that's all done. My appointment is Tuesday morning - after swimming.
The facebook account is all set up and turned to mute. I have no plans to follow people. In the past there have been groups that it would have been nice to have access to and that's why I set it up, in case one of those groups comes along again. Until then, I'll leave it alone and let it sleep.
Also, I have no plans to leave Live Journal.
I gave a passing thought to going swimming after I got home but it was 23 degrees out. It's warmed up to 29 now but I think I'll just stay here and do laundry. Tomorrow and Sunday are supposed to be warmer AND the pool doesn't open until 8 anyway so better all around.
Oh! just got test results back. The A1C is the one I always worry about because he gets so intense about it. I'm higher than last year but exact same nums as 2014 and 2015 so whew. He'll tell me to stop eating white stuff (bread and rice) and I will say ok and not stop and next year it will be a little better. Been there, lived through it. My cholesterol numbers are a little higher. Not surprising. Everything else is pretty much in range and like previous years.
This year there's a Uric acid test. He used to get that reading from the urine test. Wonder if that's why my pee was unwanted. Hmmmmm
This morning will be little things, vacuuming around the litter box, doing at least one load of laundry, making a trip down to the dumpsters. Stuff like that.
But first I need to empty out my pimento jar and store it away for next year when maybe I won't even need it!