Diagnosis...
May. 3rd, 2006 04:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kickaha"Uh, we dunno."
:P
Nurse #1 couldn't get the digital thermometer to work. Tried five times. Said she thought I had the flu.
Nurse #2 comes in, gets thermometer to work first time. ("Aha! A competent one!") 98.0. No fever. Feel feverish, no fever.
Nurse #2 tries to use finger pricker... loads needle cartridge only 1/2 way in, and then manually jams it in my finger. Third time she gets blood. ("Not so much on the competent.") Well, she gets a hole. *I* get the blood by continually squeezing the crap out of it.
Nurse #1 can't get sphygmomanometer to work. Has hole in tube. Gets second one.
Nurse #2 can't get blood sugar meter to work. I continue squeezing drops of blood out so they don't clot up.
Nurse #1 announces my blood pressure is 'just a little low', recommends drinking water. Nurse #2 asks her "what was the reading?" Nurse #1: "a little low"
Nurse #2 still unable to get glucometer to work, Nurse #1 grabs old-skool paper strips and gives it a go.
Nurse #2 gets blood sugar meter to work after sixth try. (Or was it seventh?) Sugar reading is 'normal' at 112.
Nurse #1 paper strip reading is 80. Hmm.
Nurse #1 says: "You might be coming down with something, drink fluids, and oh, you should get your blood sugar checked. Oh, we just did that. Well, have it done again."
Nurse #2 says: "You need to have someone come pick you up, and take you to an urgent care clinic for a more thorough workup." "Why?" "Just to be sure." "About what?" "Well, that it's something." "Well I can just head home, and..." "No, no, no, you need to have someone come pick you up." "Why?" "Because you're dizzy!" "Uh, no I'm not. I was dizzy *last night*, but I'm not now." "Oh... well, you still shouldn't drive." "Why not?" "Because you might get dizzy." (Mind you, I felt 10x better than I had when I drove in to work that morning...) "Uh, okay. I'll just head back to my office and call my wife." "Use the phone on the wall." "What?" "The phone, right there, use that to call your wife." "But my stuff is in my office, I need to go pack it up." "You're in no condition to walk to your office." "Why??" "Because you're dizzy!" *sigh*
*quackquackquackquack*
I drove home,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ginkgo drove me to the county medical center, which, just for the record, is scary - placing it right next to the penitentiary does not give patients warm and fuzzy feelings. After some discussion, we decided to come home and call the GP that we selected a couple weeks ago.
I have a 10:15am appt for tomorrow.
:P
Nurse #1 couldn't get the digital thermometer to work. Tried five times. Said she thought I had the flu.
Nurse #2 comes in, gets thermometer to work first time. ("Aha! A competent one!") 98.0. No fever. Feel feverish, no fever.
Nurse #2 tries to use finger pricker... loads needle cartridge only 1/2 way in, and then manually jams it in my finger. Third time she gets blood. ("Not so much on the competent.") Well, she gets a hole. *I* get the blood by continually squeezing the crap out of it.
Nurse #1 can't get sphygmomanometer to work. Has hole in tube. Gets second one.
Nurse #2 can't get blood sugar meter to work. I continue squeezing drops of blood out so they don't clot up.
Nurse #1 announces my blood pressure is 'just a little low', recommends drinking water. Nurse #2 asks her "what was the reading?" Nurse #1: "a little low"
Nurse #2 still unable to get glucometer to work, Nurse #1 grabs old-skool paper strips and gives it a go.
Nurse #2 gets blood sugar meter to work after sixth try. (Or was it seventh?) Sugar reading is 'normal' at 112.
Nurse #1 paper strip reading is 80. Hmm.
Nurse #1 says: "You might be coming down with something, drink fluids, and oh, you should get your blood sugar checked. Oh, we just did that. Well, have it done again."
Nurse #2 says: "You need to have someone come pick you up, and take you to an urgent care clinic for a more thorough workup." "Why?" "Just to be sure." "About what?" "Well, that it's something." "Well I can just head home, and..." "No, no, no, you need to have someone come pick you up." "Why?" "Because you're dizzy!" "Uh, no I'm not. I was dizzy *last night*, but I'm not now." "Oh... well, you still shouldn't drive." "Why not?" "Because you might get dizzy." (Mind you, I felt 10x better than I had when I drove in to work that morning...) "Uh, okay. I'll just head back to my office and call my wife." "Use the phone on the wall." "What?" "The phone, right there, use that to call your wife." "But my stuff is in my office, I need to go pack it up." "You're in no condition to walk to your office." "Why??" "Because you're dizzy!" *sigh*
*quackquackquackquack*
I drove home,
ginkgo drove me to the county medical center, which, just for the record, is scary - placing it right next to the penitentiary does not give patients warm and fuzzy feelings. After some discussion, we decided to come home and call the GP that we selected a couple weeks ago.I have a 10:15am appt for tomorrow.