My stupid back is out. Boo me. It’s a long standing problem that is not resolving itself with acupuncture, phyiso or chiropractic’s. Called my Doctors office this morning because frankly I have had it. Big shocker. She is closed until the New Year. I guess because Doctors are people, they get to take holidays too.
Anyhoo….I’m pretty good at dealing with the pain as long as I’m sure of what it is. As long as some professional with a stethoscope confirms for me that I’m gonna be ok. It hurts, it sucks I’ll get over it.
On a side note, weird pain should never be googled. Google is not my friend. Strange back pain suddenly turns into an impending heart attack or some debilitating degenerative disease.
Ahh but I digress (let’s blame the drugs!)
So now that I am at the end of my proverbial rope I call Doctors Relief to see if they can squeeze a girl in pain in for a quick appointment. I am in luck. I am in.
Jump, errr ….limp to my car and I am off.
Shuffle into the waiting room.
HOLD UP.
I have just walked into a freakin petri dish!
I caved and came to this part time Doctors office because frankly my friends, I was desperate and sick of hearing myself whine. Pathetic. Now I have to walk all the way across a crowded room of coughing, sneezing, sniffling, white and pasty looking peeps without catching some sort of nasty!
It is like a mine field!
From the door to the reception desk I dodge two sneezes and a cough. Yuck. Sick people.
Fill out my paperwork and now I have to sit down somewhere. Are you kidding?
As I scan the room I do my very own triage assessment.
Sweaty red nose chic with a handful of tissue, you have a cold. Go home. Doc can’t help you and I’m not sitting next to you.
Mom with 2 toddlers rubbing your head and shaking your leg. You are still in your Pj’s at noon and I recognize that circular temple rub. Migraine? Can’t catch those. The chair next to yours has possibility. Wait a minute is that a barf bowl under your chair? eeek!
Ah ha…2o something, well dressed, arms crossed and rubbing your ear. Little Miss Ear Infection, you are my new chair buddy.
Now I just have to keep to myself for the next 20 minutes and hope for the best.
Finally my name is called.
Doc prescribes some super strong drugs and a side of muscle relaxants.
Thanks and blessings.
Snag some hand sanitizer on the way out and make my escape.
Here’s hoping the drugs work, I didn’t catch some new nasty ailment and I don’t have to play the triage game again for a long time.
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Oh no sweetie! I hope you take it easy and stay away from the even google. It could lead to knowledge you just need know about things around you and the doc’s ofice you visited :).
I say take a swig of the hand sanitizer it can’t hurt right … LOL 😉
Take it easy my dear 🙂
Hope you feel better soon. BTW I never Google my aches and pains. A couple of years ago I had a distant cousin who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. I googled it and ended up swearing I had it too because I was bloated and occasionally had tender breasts. I even went to the Dr demanding a blood test or whatever. She then asks me why I feel I may have this disease. I tell her and she nearly burst out laughing.
Feeling VERY glad that we haven’t had to go to the clinic in months! WHooT! Feel better soon. Although drugs always help, don’t they!?
I’m my mother’s driver to and from her doctor visit’s (old age stuff) and you just repeated the same sad story her and I deal with twice a month…so brutally true!
Yours in health,
Robin
My back has never been the same since I had my child..
Hope by now that the drugs have kicked in and that you are feeling better. Happy New Year!
It’s hard not to be leary of cooties nowadays. Is this a sign of things to come? Probably.
Hope you get relief soon, if you’re not already in la-la land. 🙂
dang it, hope you feel better soon
During this season of life while we are poor, college students, our children go to the Public Health Clinic…it’s about 10 times what you just described (last time a girl puked on the floor about 15 feet away from me, which is good because 3 seconds before that she was sitting NEXT TO ME!).
It keeps me humble, I’ll tell you that!!!
Feel better soooooooon!
Sorry about your back. What a drag, moms just don’t get down time so lucky you have those drugs to take the edge off while you try to recover. Hope you avoided all those nasty germs too!
I suggest trying long slow stretching, including “crunches” on your back, where you raise your upper body a few inches off the floor and hold the position for as long as you can then relax a minute and repeat. It is possible to relieve most back pain with some type of stretch. There are many many angles of the stretch, they thing is to find some angle that gradually pulls or smooths out the pain by relieving pressure on the nerve that is causing the pain. Most people do NOT need a doctor or chiropractor to assist them.
I’ve seen it be effective so many times, please consider trying it, if it doesn’t work, no loss, if it does you will be astounded! Then make it something you do every day whenever you’re not comfortable.
Good luch, feel better.
Secretia
Wow…I hope the drugs do the trick. You are too young to have back problems!!
I always worry about coming home from the Dr’s office with more than I went in with.
Take care, Suz
Ugh…back pain sucks! Some days nothing will cure mine! And the last time I went to a walk in clinic, I swear I caught something I didn’t have when I walked in. Gross!
my google symptoms always end up at MS or ME – never ever google symptoms!!!!
I think doctors waiting rooms are a walking disaster area – my daughter caught chicken pox AT the doctors – ho hum!
Web MD is definitely a scary place. I’ve been convinced over the years that I have all sorts of crazy diseases. None yet 🙂