-=> Quoting Jeff Smith to Nancy Backus on 01-Jan-2016 14:10 <=-   
      
    JS> 03 Sep 15 18:20, you wrote to me:   
    NB> -=> Quoting Jeff Smith to Nancy Backus on 31-Aug-2015 23:33 <=-   
       
   It's been a while...!   ;)   Good to see you appear again... :)   
       
    JS>> I'm that way too. Never cared for doctors much. While it's hard   
    JS>> for me to ask I do enjoy and feel better about going if someone   
    JS>> decides to go with. I guess it's nice to feel your not alone   
    JS>> sometimes.   
    NB>> It certainly helps to have two people to listen to the doctor and to   
    NB>> ask questions... and to remember what was said... ;)  I started going   
    NB>> with my friend/neighbor when she'd been complaining to me on the phone   
    NB>> after every visit to a certain doctor how bad he was and how he wasn't   
    NB>> dealing with what she thought needed attention...  Turned out that he   
    NB>> really was that bad, so I helped her find a better doctor...  But then   
    NB>> I went with her to all her doctor visits thereafter, even with a new   
    NB>> better doctor... it made helping her remember what was going on easier   
    NB>> for me... :)  And she appreciated having the company...   
      
    JS> I go to the doctors as little as possible. Recently though I decided   
    JS> to "Bite The Bullet" and drive myself to the hospital. I wasn't in   
    JS> pain really. Just didn't feel right. Turns out (They told me) that I   
    JS> had a total blockage of blood feeding the heart muscles. And that I   
    JS> made it to the hospital with minutes to spare. That was reaffirmed by   
    JS> how fast they were rushing me down the halls on the gurney. They used   
    JS> their little "Roto Rooter" machine to clean my pipes.    
      
   Sounds like that got caught just in time....!  Pain isn't the only   
   symptom that one should be paying attention, just the most likely to be   
   an attention-grabber... unless one has been dealing with chronic pain   
   all along... ;0   
       
    NB>> I've long felt that it's important to have a doctor that listens to   
    NB>> you, and that accepts you as an equal partner in your care... I've   
    NB>> been fortunate over the last couple of decades to have all my doctors   
    NB>> be that way... it makes the thought of going to see them a lot less   
    NB>> onerous.. :)   
      
    JS> The doctor that I had seemed to be nice. He seemd to be someone   
    JS> that a patient could actually hold a conversation with.   
      
   Did you get to follow up with that doctor, or was he just a   
   hospitalist...?   
      
    JS> Did I mention that I really HATE hospital beds. That was the most   
    JS> uncomfortable thing to even try to sleep on. Which isn't helped by the   
    JS> folks that stop by every couple hours to see if your still alive.    
      
   Some are worse or better than others... the "hospital" beds that one can   
   buy/rent for home use are generally worse than the ones in the   
   hospitals....  And quite true about the parade of nurses/techs/docs and   
   then the therapists...  And then there's the noise level... things   
   beeping, conversations in the hall, the geriatric down the hall....   
      
    JS> Im doing ok but can't handle stairs or hills very well. Guess my   
    JS> plans to be a mountain climber are shelved.    
      
   Glad you've come through it ok...  maybe with some good cardiac rehab   
   you'll be able to at least manage hills... or even a small mountain or   
   two...  ;)  I'm not good on stairs either, though... but my problem is   
   mostly my ankles and knees... broke the one ankle (back in 2005), had to   
   stay off it for 10 weeks so damaged the other knee... and then the   
   opposite ones tried to compensate, to their detriment as well... ;)   
      
    JS> The sad thing to me was being a dad and having none of my kids showing   
    JS> up or at least calling. I did get a glad your ok msg after I got back   
    JS> home from one though.   
      
   At least one of them cared enough to let you know...     
       
   ttyl      neb   
      
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