Comments on: Apparently I don’t have a doctor http://www.flyingsquirrel.ca/index.php/2008/06/19/apparently-i-dont-have-a-doctor/ Darcy Casselman's weblog. Like the world needed another one. Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:01:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Darcy Casselman http://www.flyingsquirrel.ca/index.php/2008/06/19/apparently-i-dont-have-a-doctor/comment-page-1/#comment-194 Darcy Casselman Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:23:19 +0000 http://www.flyingsquirrel.ca/?p=131#comment-194 <p>Thanks, Tink. The toenail's still purple, but otherwise okay.</p> <p>I pretty much decided I'm not going back to that doctor. Unfortunately, it's a bit of a seller's market for medical services around here. Even so, I'm pretty sure I can do better. Even going to walk-in clinics.</p> <p>Hope Junior's okay. It doesn't sound like a lot of fun. We can't have her missing too much hockey.</p> Thanks, Tink. The toenail’s still purple, but otherwise okay.

I pretty much decided I’m not going back to that doctor. Unfortunately, it’s a bit of a seller’s market for medical services around here. Even so, I’m pretty sure I can do better. Even going to walk-in clinics.

Hope Junior’s okay. It doesn’t sound like a lot of fun. We can’t have her missing too much hockey.

]]> By: tinkerer http://www.flyingsquirrel.ca/index.php/2008/06/19/apparently-i-dont-have-a-doctor/comment-page-1/#comment-192 tinkerer Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:04:12 +0000 http://www.flyingsquirrel.ca/?p=131#comment-192 <p>Oh, dear--you poor thing! I fully sympathize. I had a regular doctor since 1988...and my daughter went to him too, ever since she was born in fact. But, alas, he decided to retire a few years ago. Finding a new one was a daunting idea! Fortunately, my roommate's mom works at a clinic, and so got us on as patients there. I really like the nurse--we click very well. But although I don't <em>dislike</em> the doctor, that same connection just isn't quite there. She's nice, but a trifle distant and brisk, which always leaves me feeling a little...adrift? Impersonal?</p> <p>But, I think perhaps we made a little headway yesterday. I was in for a regular annual appointment, but then later in the day also had to take my teen in--she's been having alarming spells of vertigo with increasing frequency. Turns out the doctor also has a daughter (older than mine) who suffered the same condition at roughly the same age. Odd, the things that can finally break ice, wot?</p> <p>Meanwhile, I'm hoping my daughter's condition is not serious or life-threatening--the doctor (having been through something similar) has some theories and ordered some tests and has started my daughter on a possible solution already--but do you know? Tuesday night she missed hockey because she was too dizzy to get her gear on. And believe me, she tried! So, yeah. Missed HOCKEY! The same kid who <em>always</em> plays, no matter what...through fevers, through colds, through 'flu...heck, just a few months ago she played with bronchitis! Silly kid couldn't even breathe (her chronic coughing fits could be heard up in the stands throughout every game that weekend), but she was NOT going to be kept off the ice! Needless to say, if she's now <em>that</em> bad...too dizzy to even finish getting geared...then there is nothing for it--off to the doctor! Whatever it takes, whatever tests to figure it out, however many trips...we'll just hope it's something that can be resolved soon and somehow we'll find a way to pay the bills.</p> <p>But you know you can't just wait it out, not now that it's big enough to interfere with HOCKEY. Aackk!</p> <p>Btw, good luck with the toe/toenail. Those can be quite daunting (and as you noted, <em>annoying</em>). My daughter's grandma went through it. But, maybe better to suffer the irritation of a trip to the clinic than to end up getting your foot amputated in a month, yes? ;> Oh, and have you asked any of your friends or co-workers for recommendations? That's how I found my first doctor, and now my new one. It might at least give you a tiny shot at finding a good one...</p> Oh, dear–you poor thing! I fully sympathize. I had a regular doctor since 1988…and my daughter went to him too, ever since she was born in fact. But, alas, he decided to retire a few years ago. Finding a new one was a daunting idea! Fortunately, my roommate’s mom works at a clinic, and so got us on as patients there. I really like the nurse–we click very well. But although I don’t dislike the doctor, that same connection just isn’t quite there. She’s nice, but a trifle distant and brisk, which always leaves me feeling a little…adrift? Impersonal?

But, I think perhaps we made a little headway yesterday. I was in for a regular annual appointment, but then later in the day also had to take my teen in–she’s been having alarming spells of vertigo with increasing frequency. Turns out the doctor also has a daughter (older than mine) who suffered the same condition at roughly the same age. Odd, the things that can finally break ice, wot?

Meanwhile, I’m hoping my daughter’s condition is not serious or life-threatening–the doctor (having been through something similar) has some theories and ordered some tests and has started my daughter on a possible solution already–but do you know? Tuesday night she missed hockey because she was too dizzy to get her gear on. And believe me, she tried! So, yeah. Missed HOCKEY! The same kid who always plays, no matter what…through fevers, through colds, through ‘flu…heck, just a few months ago she played with bronchitis! Silly kid couldn’t even breathe (her chronic coughing fits could be heard up in the stands throughout every game that weekend), but she was NOT going to be kept off the ice! Needless to say, if she’s now that bad…too dizzy to even finish getting geared…then there is nothing for it–off to the doctor! Whatever it takes, whatever tests to figure it out, however many trips…we’ll just hope it’s something that can be resolved soon and somehow we’ll find a way to pay the bills.

But you know you can’t just wait it out, not now that it’s big enough to interfere with HOCKEY. Aackk!

Btw, good luck with the toe/toenail. Those can be quite daunting (and as you noted, annoying). My daughter’s grandma went through it. But, maybe better to suffer the irritation of a trip to the clinic than to end up getting your foot amputated in a month, yes? ;> Oh, and have you asked any of your friends or co-workers for recommendations? That’s how I found my first doctor, and now my new one. It might at least give you a tiny shot at finding a good one…

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