Every form in every doctor’s office everywhere asks the same medical history questions: allergies, current medications, family history, any operations, and (my personal favorite) date of your last period. Seriously, people, half the time I’m sitting there with my hair on fire, part focused on the form and part focused on the next three things I have to do that day. You seriously expect me to remember the last time I searched for Tampax? Child, please.
But I digress.
I’ve been doing this routine for so long I even remember the super fancy medical name for the surgery I had when I graduated high school — correction of congenital ptosis, left eyelid. In other words, my left eyelid drooped lower than my right. I was really self-conscious about it back then. Unfortunately over time the a muscle that’s been surgically corrected can stretch back out which (surprise, surprise) mine did. So here I am, thirty years later, back to the place where my left eye consistently looks more tired than my right.
Don’t be fooled, though, both my eyes are tired. You’ll just spot it easier on the left.
Linda hosts Stream of Consciousness Saturday. This week’s prompt is “lid.” Use it in the literal sense, use it in the metaphorical sense, use it any way you’d like. Have fun!
It would make more sense if they just asked, what’s new. Ocassionally, I’ve written see previous form. I’m tempted to write for date of LMP: in the days of yore.
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“in the days of yore” 😂😂😂 I WANT TO SEE THAT FORM TURNED IN!!!
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I might do it if the mood strikes me silly. 🙂
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I always think the forms are a test to see if I have Alzheimer’s.
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It’s probably telling that I can’t fill them out unless I have m phone with me. That’s where I store all the super secret data (like, y’know, phone numbers) that I can’t remember on my own.
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😁
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Would you ever go through the procedure again? I have had quite a few surgeries and although painful and the healing, blah, blah, blah, I didn’t hate them all.
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Honestly it’s been so long ago that I don’t even remember what the recovery felt like. Then again I was in my teens then and they spring back faster. The bigger question is if I’d repeat bunion surgery — had the right foot done in my 30s but THAT recovery was hideous so I’ve been putting off the left…
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Laura, my mam had her bunions done over 30 years ago. On both feet at the same time. I’ll never forget it. She had a terrible time. She got a blood clot in her leg and had to have the pins taken out earlier than planned, which meant the job wasn’t done successfully.
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Oh no! I’ve heard of people getting both done at once and I’ve always thought geez, I wish I’d done that, just get it all over with before I knew how bad it would hurt. It sounds like this really didn’t work out for your mam!
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OMG! I had my right foot done and it needs to be redone! I have psoriatic arthritis so it went really bad again. This time though they will have to take a notch out of the bone because the angle is too big for regular surgery. Hurts like hell all the time. I’m sure the left will be on the list some day. My rheumatologist in CT said that I am a surgeon’s dream…I will need all my joints worked on at some point! I have a replaced hip but have done my shoulder and hip one other time.
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Yeah, my feet (both, actually, even the right one) have hurt a lot for years. It just kind of stopped being an issue when I stopped putting on heels for nice events, and then covid hit and I’ve basically worn birks out or slippers/socks around the house. Let’s me avoid all the tough decisions.
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This reminds me of the Red Cross blood questionnaire. One of the questions was about pregnancy. The yes and no boxes were in the same place on the computer screen as the previous questions. And on the other side of the screen was an opt out box for unpregnant males. It only got me 95% of the time. I am surprised that it did not jump around the screen when you try to click on it. Check me if you can…
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and it is only fitting WP came back with a ‘this comment cannot be posted’ message. Only to be followed directly with a ‘duplicate message detected’ message. Time to pour that first one and head out to the garden… Happy Saturday…
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The jump around screens make me nutty! Because seriously, I know my finger isn’t so fat that you can’t tell I wanted to hit no…
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LOL, the date you last searched for Tampax. I think it’s far too long ago for me to even think about it, let alone come up with a date. I would have had to carve it in stone first. Geesh.
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omg I needed this laugh. I mean seriously, I’m FIFTY, why the hell am I still doing this every month?!? 😂
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The forms are annoying.
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They are. I appreciate the way offices here are gathering their systems under an umbrella so the ortho guy I saw for my knee had me confirming info the Moses Cone system had already on file.
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Within our primary care’s network, we get that. Outside, forget it.
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i get this. forms, eyelids and all
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I think it’s the medications list that gets me. I need to make a master, take a pic, and demand to upload it directly to their files so I can stop writing this darn thing out!
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great idea
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Hugs.
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😉
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