For the past two or three months I’ve had upper-arm or shoulder pain in my left arm, and I finally got around to making an appointment to see my doctor about it. All praise to the VA; I called and was transferred to the advice nurse when the original scheduler heard my problem. He said …
I had what the ENT doctors are referring to as my next-to-last checkup with them today. They cut out my uvula on July 11, 2012, and I’ve been back to them regularly since then. At first it was bi-monthly, then quarterly, and most recently bi-annually. First they do an exam with tongue depressors and a …
If you need a new one of these things because the old one doesn’t fit your new glasses, but you didn’t buy the old one, what term would you use to search for it? I tried about four different phrases before I came up with an image sufficiently like it that I could get the …
Please pass this article along to any vets you know. It’s infuriating that the privatizers in the Republican party and its supporters (Spit! Kochs!) want to undermine one of the best health systems in this country and they want to do so in the name of their putrid ideology. They may try to dress up …
Yep, I am. I had my semi-annual trip to the periodontist today where I had another Sodium Fluoride treatment. The hygienist cleans your teeth (not as thoroughly as my regular dentist’s hygienist does, but still pretty well), dries them off, and starts painting this stuff on. It dries quickly, and when it does it looks …
I had my third colonoscopy in 9 years today, and the polyp score is 5, 0, 1. That’s five the first time (all benign), none the second time, and one (awaiting biopsy results) the third time. That damned electrolyte mix is the worst part of the whole deal. I was anesthetized and out in two …
This idiotic Texas abortion restriction law that is in front of the Supreme Court today involves a state requirement that doctors at the clinics must have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. Over and over today I’ve heard news commentators and pundits say that there’s no need for doctors to have those privileges; that colonoscopies …
That’s how the Ear Nose and Throat guys described my mouth today. It looks like a million bucks. This after putting the scope in and taking a look at the back of my throat where a uvula once wobbled, and after putting a couple of tongue depressors into the front of my mouth to look …
That’s the Internet, baby. I have some kind of odd soreness on the right side of my sternum. Plug “sore sternum” into a search box and Presto! I have costochondritis! What’s that? It’s an inflammation of the junctions where the upper ribs join the cartilage that holds them to the breastbone (sternum). Costochondritis causes localized …
That’s what it cost me to have 103 pages of medical records from a previous health care provider scanned into .pdf format. I wanted to get them to add them to the records I’m accumulating now, particularly things like colonoscopy results and vaccinations. That’s not such a bad price ($13.20), but it only covered the …