Comments on: 2 Month Moving Update

By: aprilmomoffour

aprilmomoffour — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 17:05:11 +0000

In reply to Jenny @ Unremarkable Files. What, you don't like losing things, living in hotel rooms, or dealing with cable, electric, and water companies all on the same day? :)

By: Jenny @ Unremarkable Files

Jenny @ Unremarkable Files — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 03:54:57 +0000

Wait, you lost me at “moving’s fun.” What?

By: Leslie

Leslie — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 02:16:47 +0000

My last pediatrician’s office had that exact same sign on their trash cans. I was so glad when we went back to our old pediatrician’s office…who even provides fresh diapers during the visit!

Moving is tough stuff, but it looks like you’re coming along well. Thanks so much for joining in at the #happynowlinkup!

By: aprilmomoffour

aprilmomoffour — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 16:50:21 +0000

In reply to Alma Mater. It is exhausting, and it's also horribly discouraging the way that docs don't actually try to help you find the underlying cause of your problem. I never realized that doctors are sort of a frienemy until I became chronically ill, not with the heart thing, but my joint/fever problem. I've sort of given up even mentioning it to them.

By: aprilmomoffour

aprilmomoffour — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 16:48:33 +0000

In reply to Jen. I thought so too!!

By: aprilmomoffour

aprilmomoffour — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 16:47:59 +0000

In reply to Nonna. I had hoped they'd leave too. Eventually, I need to surrender my pride and go beg a regular doc here to help me.

By: Alma Mater

Alma Mater — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 23:50:24 +0000

That poop rule drives me nuts. I wouldn’t leave poopy diapers in a babyless friend’s garbage, or a regular business garbage, but a pediatric doctor should have a diaper genie. If you deal with babies in your business, a diaper genie should be an expected part of your service!

My heart rate is high like that all day, too! It’s exhausting, isn’t it? Is your resting heart rate low/normal? Mine is. I have a pulse oximeter that takes my heart rate, so I did the clinical test and I diagnosed myself with POTS before the doctors did.

I totally agree with you about viewing your own medical records. There are all kinds of things they don’t bother to tell you, and with the lackadaisal care that they give people with chronic illness, we really need that information in order to research for ourselves. I wouldn’t have found out about either POTS nor EDS without doing my own research. Ten years of relying on doctors got me “oh, you’re just pregnant. Pregnancy can do strange things to the body.”

Riiiiiight.