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July 04, 2006
Something to worry about?
High on Bleeding Edge's list of Not Particularly Wanted Experiences is when your GP orders a series of tests - we've got high blood pressure, you see - and a few days later you get a call from the receptionist telling you that the doctor "would like to discuss the results". If you've got an active imagination, you start running through the possibilities. Let's see now. Diabetes? Prostate cancer? Heart disease? Oh dear. So many nasty things to choose from, and we won't find out what it is until tomorrow morning. Could be something minor, of course, but if it were minor, wouldn't you expect them to say something like, "Nothing to worry about, but ..."?
Posted by cw at July 4, 2006 03:46 PM
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Don't like that phrase - in the same bag as the call from the boss's boss, from the school teacher.
Best wishes for a good result and will contribute to your good karma.
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at July 4, 2006 04:09 PM
Consider yourself lucky. Three years ago I had a doctor knock at my front door and tell me to go to the Alfred immediately as I had and irregular heart beat. After an afternoon there and a visit to a specialist, it turned out it was perfectly normal. The doctor was nervous after he'd had a patient die on him. What about how nervous I got?
Posted by: Ed Charles at July 4, 2006 05:57 PM
We all hope all's well, cw.
Posted by: extulit at July 4, 2006 06:37 PM
They always require you to "pop in to discuss the results", even if there is nothing to report. Information is never given out over the phone.
cheers, Paul
Posted by: Paul at July 4, 2006 07:09 PM
We hope it is nothing to worry about. If they tell you that over the phone this time, what happens next time when it may be something to worry about? You recall they told you it was nothing to worry about last time. Why not this time? Then you are seriously worried.
Posted by: Andrew at July 4, 2006 10:50 PM
I'm not sure cw, but I think we are around the same age. Perhaps you have been spared to date the escalation in tests & results, referrals and medication.
Mum died of lung cancer so I'm high risk in that area. Dad of Bowel cancer, so the other end is up for intrusion. Also he has bypasses so it gets a regular going over, Cholesterol, blood pressure, abnormal heart beat, underactive thyroid, prostate, slow healing, gangrene appendix.......
Its called getting old cw. To date there is only one cure and it is worse than the disease.
As for the medico's generally they approach you cautiously, the litigious time in which we live has got them by the short and curly's.
Although I now read that ostriches do not stick their head in the sand it is not a good time for you to imitate the story.
Good luck, and get on with living, dying will look after itself.
Steven
Posted by: steven at July 5, 2006 08:45 PM