purple room vents: DOCTORS

Oh Lordy, save me now! I have done a lot of whining over the years about not being able to get a family doctor. Starting in North Vancouver, then Langford, then Kamloops and now Port Alberni. And now, here in little old Port, I was offered a family doctor by the clinic doctor. She did a telephone appointment today with me to get the basics. Oh jeez! This ain't going to be fun.

I have always said I like having doctors I can push around. Ones that don't take too much interest in me. Just enough interest to write my prescriptions and ignore the rest.

Well it took twenty seconds on the phone to see that this one ain't going to be that. First of all it became really quickly evident that she is young and enthusiastic and saving the world population, one person at a time. First thing she told me was that she was here for only two years. She is leaving our little town in two years. Which tells me she is either from somewhere else and HAS to dr. in an undesirable location. Or she is brand new and this is the only health authority hiring and sent her here. Neither situation is optimal.

She then started to take a history. What pills I am on, what past health issues have I had, what operations I have had blah blah blah. Then....she asked how much I weighed and how tall I was. And there we go....where all frigging doctors go and I have been there and back a thousand times in my life.

She tells me, "Well I want you to make an appointment for two weeks from now and we will discuss your weight and the effects it can have on you. I would like you to start a food diary (fucking shovel list shovel list shovel list to the power of infinity plus one....what am I? 14 years old?) and we will see about you going to a dietitian in town here." No. No we are not. I am 67. I don't, and never will, agree with the Canada food guide. I don't, and never will, follow the Canadian Diabetes Guide. Jeez! Now I remember why I don't like personal doctors. They are just waaaaaay too interested in you. I can look after myself.

Well I finally got my purple room done. It was just awful. I should have taken a before picture. It seriously looked like a hoarder's room. I honestly had the ironing board in there, up, and you couldn't even see it. Now it is all organized and ready to wallpaper. It took me a whole day to put everything away where it belonged. I even found some of my important jewelry. I never wear any of it but I like to know where it is and look at it now and then!

I found slugs, little ones in my kitchen sink. Obviously they came in on the lettuce from the garden. I was telling April about that when she told me that they carry a parasite that can paralyze you!!!!!!!!!!!! Jesus!!!!! I washed that lettuce but....so I googled it and sure enough they can. And not only that, washing it three times and using bleach and stuff doesn't necessarily get rid of the parasite. So thats it. I am not eating salad with lettuce in it ever again. Never! I am going to look up Russian salad recipes (they don't eat lettuce) and make those. God every time you turn around there's something that wants to kill you.

Thats it for today. I will post again tomorrow. Wrangler is in trouble and I need to update the 'make your life healthy' thing for Aryn. Stay safe peeps. TTYL