Wacky Wednesday Part 1 of 2
Hi, Folks! Thanks for stopping buy I really appreciate you reading my blog and putting up with my grammar and spelling errors. It is quite a choir I know.
On Wednesday of this week I went back to the Doctor: here is the lowdown on that visit.
I walk into the office and notice that there is no one at the desk. I ring the bell, but I ring it in away so that it does not bring any attention to me. So instead of a roaring DING!!!! I keep my hand on the bell as I push the button on the top and get more of a dink, so I continue to stand the like a jerk for another 5 of 10 minuets. You can see were this appointment is going, right?
Farah comes from the back she says “Hi, Darren!” (that’s my real first name if you have not noticed) and acts as if she is excited to see me.
I respond “Hey Farah, it’s really nice to see you again. I am surprised that you remembered me from last week, thanks”
“You were here last week? Oh, I didn’t remember you I just looked at the schedule before you got here. Did you know that your appointment was not until 2 o’clock?”
{Swing and a miss - strike one for our hero, The D!}
“Umm, Yes I am just here 30 minuets early because I wanted to make sure all of my paper work was correct for insurance proposes.” (LIE!!! I thought the appointment was at 1:45 but if I was a smart man instead of a complete buffoon that I actually am then I would of said something like. “Of course, I am aware I am early. I just wanted to spend some time with the prettiest nurse in town. (wink wink). Or I would have said some other lame pick up line.
{The D watches this pitch go by STRIKE TWO for our hero, The D!}
Farrah finishes checking me in and I have a seat in the waiting area. While waiting I watch the 49ers beat the Broncos in the Superbowl in the 1980’s on one of the 3 flat screens in the waiting area. I think to my self (self you should get one of those flat screen TV’s) But then I remind my self that I would have to sell my 51” rear projection T.V. first in order to get a flat screen.
My mind wanders when I am bored.
A blond woman comes from behind a door and calls my name. I think to my self “YES, I finally won something awesome!” sadly I did not, it’s just another nurse to escort me back to the exam rooms. She was blond and only half way cute, she did not even tell me her name to me so I could not tell you her name so we will call her Blondie (like the singer).
We stop off at the scale.
She says “Hop, right on up on this scale, please”
“No, I don’t want too I think your scale is busted.” I complain.
“Why do you say that?” She questions.
“Because on Jan 5th I weighted in at 195 lbs on the scale at my gym and then last week (01-13-07) I was 208 on this lousy clunker”. I spout back
“Our scale is correct yours is wrong.” She says with a little attitude.
“Bologna!” I exclaimed “It’s the kind that has a counter weight that you have to adjust your self. Plus I make sure that it is correct before I get on it…”
I continue to complain about the scales. But I can tell by the look on her face that 1) she stopped listening and 2) she really does not care to hear me complain about the intricacies of the 2 different scales (theirs is a digital scale).
(What I did not tell her is that when I weight in at the gym I am only wearing underwear. When I weight in at the Doctors office I am fully dressed in slacks, shoes, socks, belt, undershirt, dress shirt, tie, wallet, cell phone, and keys. So of course I am going to be heavier than at the gym).
I begrudgingly get on the scale. Scale says 199 lbs. (Bullshit I say below my breath I was 197 lbs the night before). Fuck, I hate scales.
We then go to the exam room and she ask me a few questions about how I was feeling but there were no leading questions this time, no shenanigans to speak of, she was very professional (which is to say boring) so I was kind of let down. I was sort of looking forward to some shenanigans (maybe a little slap and tickle if you know what I mean). She tells me the Doctor is going to come in and talk to me about my high blood pressure (last week it was 145/95 which is really freaking high, like so high that she was surprised that my head did not pop off like a Pez dispenser.) and that she was going to come back in and take out the stitches.
She takes my BP (that is blood pressure for those of you not in the medical community) 130/80 which is normal for my age (36), height (5’-9”) and weight, (195, I don’t care what their scale says I am under 200 lbs so they can just SUCK IT!)
She leaves I start reading this book about mens health that was sitting on the table and look up my BMI (body mass index) on a chart. The good news is that I am no longer morbidly obese, I and just on the border line between obese and overweight. I think that is good news. But then I realize I still have along way to go before my weight is considered “normal” Like 50 more pounds more to go. WTF?
Doctor comes in and looks at the chart he had asked me to keep for the past week of my BP all of the readings were in the 140’s/ 90’s which again is like Old Faithful high he even said that he was surprised my heart had not literally jumped out of my chest and smacked me in the face.
I tell him that all of those were taken from a machine in a Walgreen’s at 39th and Broadway on my way home from the gym.
He then gets up an punches me in the face, and states yelling at me “YOU ASSHOLE!!! YOU CAN’T TAKE YOUR BP JUST AFTER WORKING OUT! DIDN’T ANY ONE TELL YOU THAT? YOU HAVE TO TAKE IT WHILE YOU ARE JUST SITTING AROUND RELAXING!!”
O.k. so he did not punch me in the face or anything like that, but he did tell me that should have taken my BP while resting. My reading was high because I had just finished working out and that it will stay up for a few hours after working out. Now I have to keep track my BP for another week. I just have to do it in the morning.
Now here is my problem, he suggested that I spend 50-60 bucks on my own BP machine?!?!? Huh?? What the deuce? Screw that!! I am not going to BUY my own BP machine that’s ludicrous! So, I either need to find a cheap used machine or get a nurse to take the reading everyday. Let me know if you are interested, or have any ideas on how I can get my BP done everyday until Feb 1st.
Now about the cyst it still a little hard and swollen (I am talking about the cyst not my Hoagie and Meatballs, Geez you perv’s) so he put me on some antibiotics to fight off any infection that may have started or will start in the next 10 days.
That’s it for now. Up next the Pharmacy Girl!
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