i hope it stays dark forever, i hope the worst isn't over.

so i went to the doctor YET AGAIN this morning, and we all know how much i love going to the doctors. its a like a mini vacation or something... A VACATION IN THE DARK, FIERY PIT OF HELL. anyhow, the reason for this visit relates to my recent ear infection -- namely that while on antibiotics for that, a myriad other unrelated gastrointestinal issues i've had for a long time completely abated. backstory: for the past couple of years i've had what i now recognize as symptoms of an ulcer -- burning, gnawing stomach pain relieved only by eating or taking antacids -- which previous doctors misdiagnosed or ignored. because doctors are ASSY, my friends. but while on antibiotics last week, i felt better to an almost ridiculous degree. i felt not only that these stomach problems were miraculously gone, but also that a fog of lethargy and fatigue lifted... its that whole you-don't-know-how-sick-you-really-are-until-you're-well thing. so yes, i again braved a most dreaded and foul doctor's visit, emerging from the trial with... well, not much, honestly: a few weeks worth of prescription antacid and a form directing me to get some blood work done to test for ulcer-causing bacteria. better still, i actually cried when the doctor told me he wasn't just going to whip out his prescription tablet and load me up on the antibiotics (embarrassing as it was, at least it was that silent, tear-trickling sort of crying, not the sniffling, sobbing and heaving sort of crying), and you know that there's nothing better than the awkward physician pat of condolence -- i live for that shit, man. so yeah, i'm fairly bummed. all of this means i have to not only live with my roiling, painful gut a little bit longer, but that i also have to go to a stupid lab and get stupid blood drawn -- an excursion positioned just one tier lower than going to the doctor's on tracey's most hated things to do list. sigh.

i did manage to score a flu shot out of this whole ordeal, though. so while you're all feverish and bedridden this winter with the flu, i'll be all impervious and shit over here... though of course clutching my stomach and vomiting blood. but still.

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[kilowatthour]

oh, i hope i don't end up being ASSY. cause that sounds wretched. and i, um, would prefer not to engage in the awkward condolence pat. but can i just tell you? medical school has a way of turning otherwise normal people into complete and utter asshats. ASSHATS, i tell you. it's like putting that M.D. after your name gives you license to act like a jerkoff all the damn time. i'm not sure what the hell i'm doing striving toward this nonsense. if it's any consolation, though, there are at least some of us (doctor-ish types) who sympathize more with the patients than with the asshats. at least for now. i may be an asshat by may 2007.

[debbie]

dude. sorry you couldn't get your antibiotic fix, but you already know that's for the best. i hope the antacid works.

what up with jack's birthday party?

[sweetney]

kilowatt: you're becoming ONE OF THEM?!? uh-oh.

i'm kind of guessing that the having-lots-of-money-and-saving-people's-lives shit sort of balances out the assyness though. so, umm, GO YOU!

cough.

[supa]

Oh, McSuck. Score on the flu shot, though. Sincerely hoping the rollicking gut action abates pronto, hon.