My rocky water bed
I know I grew up being told no question is a stupid question, however I am definitely beginning to discredit that theory.
So today started as a typical Brigham/Dana Wednesday. Horrible long drive in, due to stupid mass holes and the rain, but we got there. Finished appointment at Brigham and headed over to Dana to start the rest of the day. We arrived at the lab at 10:10 for a 10:30 appointment only to be told that they were 30 minutes behind based on your draw time. So we quickly learned that it does not matter if you are early on time or late to the lab, regardless you get penalized. By the time blood was drawn, a quick lunch for Javi and a quick trip to the Alex and Ani positive energy table for me,(fell in love with a bracelet) and then back upstairs to another typical over filled waiting room. When vitals and what not were finally done and there was a empty room it was well over the time of my appointment. We met with the NP first and after talking to her and showing her my concerns, she was pretty perplexed. She left to get the doctor and we waited at least another 20 minutes, which isn't shocking, however the first thing the doctor said when she was in was very strange
She walked into the room turns to me and said" do u have a waterbed?" I thought I heard her wrong but when she repeated it again I said no and she said oh because the pattern of your bruises is definitely common from those who have a water bed. I'm always talking about drs. not looking outside the box and I must give her a lot of credit from going that far out of the box. Drs. are so used to going by numbers and test results and when the numbers look good they automatically get excited. However this reaction from the doctor was quite aggravating considering the numbers on the paper and the appearance of my body do not add up correctly. At this point, we are so use to getting ridiculous questions that we laugh out loud sometimes which I think kind of irritates some drs, and others in the medical field. Im sure that it was one of those times that it was funnier if you were there. After a long day, we needed something to lighten up the mood. We came up with a lot of funny things having to do with water bed. :) sometimes you have to laugh even at ignorance.
what is not funny is the way my body looks, covered in huge multicolored, multi sized, different shapes and lumpy bruises, so far a total of 52.. So this is were the frustration comes in, stupid questions, stupid inferences and no answers. However the conclusion we made from this appointment was water beds may be fun, but apparently dangerous, so glad we waited 6 hours to get no definite answers. The doctors conclusion which sparked some anger was that I am just overly clumsy and I need to be more careful. She basically acted like I fall and trip and bump into everything. I know I am not the most graceful person but to say all of these bruises are from being clumsy is absurd. Also absurd was the doctor telling me she was "THRILLED" with the progress I have made. I guess it is all about the numbers. NO OBSTACLE COMPLETED, FRUSTRATION CONTINUES
So today started as a typical Brigham/Dana Wednesday. Horrible long drive in, due to stupid mass holes and the rain, but we got there. Finished appointment at Brigham and headed over to Dana to start the rest of the day. We arrived at the lab at 10:10 for a 10:30 appointment only to be told that they were 30 minutes behind based on your draw time. So we quickly learned that it does not matter if you are early on time or late to the lab, regardless you get penalized. By the time blood was drawn, a quick lunch for Javi and a quick trip to the Alex and Ani positive energy table for me,(fell in love with a bracelet) and then back upstairs to another typical over filled waiting room. When vitals and what not were finally done and there was a empty room it was well over the time of my appointment. We met with the NP first and after talking to her and showing her my concerns, she was pretty perplexed. She left to get the doctor and we waited at least another 20 minutes, which isn't shocking, however the first thing the doctor said when she was in was very strange
She walked into the room turns to me and said" do u have a waterbed?" I thought I heard her wrong but when she repeated it again I said no and she said oh because the pattern of your bruises is definitely common from those who have a water bed. I'm always talking about drs. not looking outside the box and I must give her a lot of credit from going that far out of the box. Drs. are so used to going by numbers and test results and when the numbers look good they automatically get excited. However this reaction from the doctor was quite aggravating considering the numbers on the paper and the appearance of my body do not add up correctly. At this point, we are so use to getting ridiculous questions that we laugh out loud sometimes which I think kind of irritates some drs, and others in the medical field. Im sure that it was one of those times that it was funnier if you were there. After a long day, we needed something to lighten up the mood. We came up with a lot of funny things having to do with water bed. :) sometimes you have to laugh even at ignorance.
what is not funny is the way my body looks, covered in huge multicolored, multi sized, different shapes and lumpy bruises, so far a total of 52.. So this is were the frustration comes in, stupid questions, stupid inferences and no answers. However the conclusion we made from this appointment was water beds may be fun, but apparently dangerous, so glad we waited 6 hours to get no definite answers. The doctors conclusion which sparked some anger was that I am just overly clumsy and I need to be more careful. She basically acted like I fall and trip and bump into everything. I know I am not the most graceful person but to say all of these bruises are from being clumsy is absurd. Also absurd was the doctor telling me she was "THRILLED" with the progress I have made. I guess it is all about the numbers. NO OBSTACLE COMPLETED, FRUSTRATION CONTINUES
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