I did call the doctor this
late morning, after ten A.M., but I bet you are wondering which one, since the possibilities
were of any of the three involved regularly in my care, the neuro, GP and now
the walk-in clinic physicians hmm?
Being slightly baffled on who
should get the honors of aiding and abetting my ‘legal’ needs to feel better
and sooner rather than later, I had the good sense to ask Hubby to help in that
decision.
Fortunately, he had
the most
logical answer; the one that I saw last, the one who prescribed the
medication
that didn’t seem to work as well as one might think, due to my own
concerns for
too strong not always better... and causing glucose going up and thyroid
issues, blood work false, too positives, and weight gain and lack of
sleep, etc... you get the idea...
And so I called the walk-in
clinic associated with the Millennium Group where my GP is, and the doctor is
that I saw last Wednesday and prescribed the medication that I had finished
Monday, due to them being open daily, 7 days a week, and from 7 A.M. to 7 P.M.,
thus the 7-7-7, but only 9-4 on holidays.
Kellie answered the line, the
very well informed, kind, nurse who said just to call if I needed anything; it
was rather nice to know that she meant what she said.
I told her how I felt and
asked if perhaps that I was being too impatient since I had not been on this
strength of steroids before with an exacerbation. And she that she would talk
to the doctor, but felt that my GP should be informed about this too and told me to
call her as well and see who got back to me first!
I like that kid.
I called and left a message
on my GP’s voice mail and her assistant, Cindy, did call back very shortly, but
at first wanted me to come in at 2 P.M. today and this was just before noon she
seemed to think that I might need an anti-biotic, and I said no, that it was
the MS and I rather not have an anti-biotic for this and so she said that she
would talk to the doctor and call me back.
Kellie called back around one
ten or so and said that the doctor sent in another prescription to my pharmacy
for Medrol this time, the non-generic of the steroid that I was on that I had just finished.
Hubby went to pick it up and
while he was getting it Cindy called back and said that my usual GP doc thought
if I wanted to wait till Friday to see if the steroids were taking their time
to work I could see her this Friday?
I told Cindy that the other
doctor prescribed more steroids and that Kellie had called back a while ago and that is where my husband was… and he was
back by 2 P.M. when all was said and done and now I have to wait until tomorrow
morning, due to how the system is set up, to start the next six day step down
course of meds before breakfast, after lunch and dinner and before bedtime, but this time it had one refill too!
Moving on...
Monday, I did receive the application
from the Affordable Care Act subsidies and so it was filled out and mailed
back immediately Tuesday, due my visit with our Number One son Monday!
And so today while waiting on
all the other stuff I started shopping for a new health insurance policy to
replace mine that will be defunct on December 31st 2013, and now
with a little over six weeks left to accomplish this by December 15th
, for January 1st 2014!
Some times distractions when
dealing with pain works, but not always… nerves got the best of me and foolishly
I ate too much.
And stupidly ate those little
packets of candy corn, four in all, little individuals, pure corn syrup and bad
for someone like me fat with type 2 diabetes, we have them for the trick or treaters for tomorrow.
“eating too much sugar or carbohydrate
can trigger hypoglycemia. This may sound paradoxical but your blood glucose
level may actually go down below normal because your pancreas, sensing a high
level, can over-react and produce too much insulin, which can bring your blood
glucose down to below the normal level. This is particularly true for type 2
diabetics who are being treated with insulin injections and who still have some
pancreatic function.”
Article Source:
http://EzineArticles.com/3581430”
And feeling guilty, weird,
dizzy and so I took my glucose and sure enough it did go down… but I am not
being treated regularly with insulin injections only when it goes way high, but
that is what happened anyway, that’ll teach me!
Why
do I need more problems;
for shame on me! I tell you it's nerves folks, plain old simple upset
with needing myself to feel better faster, just dumb old NERVES, i.e.
impatience!Which we all know is counter-productive.
On that note again of TMI,
allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and
ask you kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you
know who and we will too!
And next time please be here
or be square, ya hear!
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