What’s Up, Doc?
by Kym on December 21, 2007
So I went to see the doctor yesterday. It didn’t go particularly well. Despite arriving before the clinic even opened, it was an hour and a half wait to see the doctor.
He bustled into the exam room and quickly fired off a few questions. I was rather perplexed as to why, since he didn’t seem inclined to listen to the answers. He told me it was “probably a virus” and would have to “run its course”, but that he’d give me a prescription for a round of antibiotics in case I wanted to give them a go. “You never know, they might help,” he said.
I pointed out I wasn’t worried about the hacking cough and rapidly increasing sinus pressure so much as the effect they were having on an existing problem. My left ear which has been plugged up since September and really, really hurts now.
He took a half second peek in each ear and said he couldn’t see any problem, and that if I thought there was something wrong I should see my family doctor who could then refer me to a specialist.
Umm…seeing my family doctor wasn’t an option. That’s why I went to see him. And his implication that it was all in my head? Made me want to wax off his moustache. Okay, that’s a weird reaction, I’ll admit, but it twitched funny when he talked and the idea popped into my head more than once.
Anyone want to be my accomplice? He was a weeny little man. We could so take him.
25 comments
I think we should pluck the hairs out one by one. Why make it quick with waxing when we can use torture?
by Heffalump on December 21, 2007 at 7:42 pm. #
I’ll sit on him — you guys pluck.
by Tristi Pinkston on December 21, 2007 at 7:58 pm. #
When you mentioned wax I thought you were going to say you could get it from your sore ear as maybe it’s erm,a little blocked. But you’re not as gross as me so I’ll be quiet now.
But I volunteer for moustache waxing. Moustaches are a little scary.
by Jo Beaufoix on December 21, 2007 at 8:23 pm. #
Count me in on this posse too . . . then we’ll come back to my town and do some drastically sadistic things to the drastically sadistic doctor that I had who once told the sister-in-law of a friend of mine not to cry when she was having a D&C after miscarrying a baby they’d tried years to conceive . . . because it was “just a tumour” . . . !
by Kate on December 21, 2007 at 8:47 pm. #
So did he end up figuring out what was wrong? Doctors – that’s one place where I will sit and repeat myself until they are ready to scream, stand up for myself until they slow down and actually take CARE of me. What are you going to do next? I hope you are feeling better soon…
by Sue on December 21, 2007 at 9:14 pm. #
Poor your head. If you would like, I will come north and kick him hard with my grumpiness.
No?
You’re right; it wouldn’t help anyway.
Be well soon.
by Lisa Milton on December 21, 2007 at 9:22 pm. #
I’m in… can I bring some spray paint and duct tape too??
by Melissa on December 21, 2007 at 9:23 pm. #
I’m in, how long would it take me to get there?
He must have missed the “listening to your patient” classes in school. Sheesh!
I hope you feel better soon, it’s not fun to be sick especially at Christmastime.
by Tonya on December 21, 2007 at 9:35 pm. #
Grrr. Doctor, you be nice to my Kim, or waxing the mustache will only be the first of many tortures….
by Luisa Perkins on December 21, 2007 at 10:45 pm. #
wait for me!!! i’m coming!!!
by holly on December 22, 2007 at 12:18 am. #
I’m with ya! All lousy doctors who don’t listen to a word you say should be waxed in painful places.
by Summer on December 22, 2007 at 1:08 am. #
So sorry you’re feeling miserable, and that the doctor didn’t listen to anything you said! Sounds like HE’S the one with the ear problem!
(And YIKES to Kate’s comment! That’s horrific!)
by Beth on December 22, 2007 at 3:03 am. #
oh we could SO take him! remember, i’m a 5 foot 10 inch Danish farm girl…strong stock, those Danes. i got your back, girl!
that’s just so unprofessional. i have a real problem with doctors who have the “assembly line” attitude. what’s your problem, here’s a prescription, don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out, NEXT! if they don’t care about or want to help people, why did they get into that profession??? the money, perhaps?
by monkeysandmarbles on December 22, 2007 at 5:35 am. #
i’m the waxing queen and let me tell you, waxing that moustache would hurt intensely worse than plucking one by one. guys are wimps when it comes to waxing.
by aubrey on December 22, 2007 at 7:24 am. #
I’ll cut him.
by That Chick Over There on December 22, 2007 at 1:21 pm. #
dude, i’m in. let’s get the knuckle hair while we’re at it.
by Nic on December 22, 2007 at 4:02 pm. #
Sheesh, Kim, remind me not to get on the bad side of your readers!
by JustRandi on December 22, 2007 at 4:10 pm. #
I hate doctors who won’t do anything unless they see blood or something oozing.
And a mustache on a doctor – ewwww. (Except now I’m trying to remember if my kid’s doctor had one last night.)
by Thoroughly Mormon Millie on December 22, 2007 at 5:12 pm. #
Instead of pulling his mustache out, (which I would heartily endorse!) you should have coughed all over his face repeatedly. Then when he gets sick, you can ask him what he did to cure himself!
by Rebecca on December 22, 2007 at 7:27 pm. #
If you decide to handle him yourself, I’ll be your alibi!
We’ll tell those Mounties you were in Alabama. So go get that jerk!
by Blue Momma on December 23, 2007 at 12:08 am. #
How about we infest his moustache with something? Fleas, ticks, fungus?
Then we he goes to see a vet for treatment, we tell him the itchiness and the things jumping up his nose, in his ears, and biting him constantly are basically, well, in his head. “Psychosomatic reaction to your own pig-headedness. Sorry. Nothing we can do. But you can take these birth-control pills if you’d like. Maybe they’ll help. Or not. Whatever.”
by wynne on December 24, 2007 at 6:51 am. #
What a jerk! The family doctor comment just solidifies it. When he said that you should have replied, “oh yeah, because you’re not a real doctor anyhow” or something. Hope you are feeling better!
by newnorth on December 26, 2007 at 2:46 pm. #
As your evil henchwoman, I agree to wax his moustache,and his eyebrows, and his leg hair. Sorry to be MIA so long that I didn’t see the job posting til now :)
by Julie Wright on December 27, 2007 at 1:22 am. #
I vote for removing half of his moustache, and one eyebrow.
I also liked the idea of coughing on him. See how he likes to let the “virus” run it’s course.
And what kind of a doctor gives antibiotics for a virus anyway?
by Jill on December 27, 2007 at 8:48 pm. #
HAHAHAHA *snort* hahahaha. Yes, let us wax that mustache. How great would it be for a group of lady-bloggers to attack him and wax him?
(And, um, sheesh! What a jerk!)
by Brillig on December 31, 2007 at 3:21 pm. #