None of your business
I have a doctor’s appointment on Monday, and the clinic mailed me a 4-page questionnaire to complete. It started with standard information, but then quickly derailed. For instance, it stated: Please document which medications you are taking, how often and the dosage. Also, bring your medications with you to your appointment. Look, I take my inhaler and allergy medicine so sporadically, it’s not even worth the hassle to cart them around with me. Plus, when I looked at my inhaler to record the dosage, the prescription was for Jason, who never once used the thing after a doctor prescribed it for a bad cold. So now I am going to get yelled at/arrested for using someone else’s prescription. For fun, I should bring in a giant satchel stuffed with drugs, but the only items we have in our medicine cabinet are vitamins, generic ibuprofen, Jason’s expired pain medication from a car accident two years ago and Abby’s homeopathic arthritic joint treats.
The questionnaire also nosily inquired whether or not I have had any incidents of uncontrollable rage in the past year, which um…DUH. Have you ever seen me during my commute? I could easily have checked a box labeled, “YES. A gazillion times a day.” (Because I figured I was already in trouble for the not-mine prescription, I marked “No.” Good thing the follow-up question was not: Are you a liar?)
The None-of-your-Business-Questionnaire then concluded with: Please check the areas you are most interested in learning more about, and included: weight loss, healthy eating and exercise tips. I checked nothing because I already know how to do those things but choose not to, and besides, ignorance is bliss.
Also bliss? These things that are making me happy right now:
- Caramel apples
- Football
- Looking forward to our last camping trip of the year
- Shorty’s not-a-morning-dog antics, which include pretending to be an alligator, fake itchiness, pretending to be deaf, and pretending his legs are boneless
- False hope that GMAC will allow us to refinance our house
- New TV shows
- Emails from the library saying my books are in
- Browsing Etsy
- Knitting
- Still being able to wear my summer clothes
- Waking up at 3 a.m. to find one cat nestled next to my chest and the other sleeping on my spare pillow on the headboard
- Days where Jason and I are both in fantastic moods
- New posts on my favorite blogs
- Getting to leave early from work
How about you?
I’m so excited about fall. Sorry about your nosy doctor, though. No fun! I think it would be awesome to bring huge piles of drugs with you. Probably not worth the hassle, though.
Comment by Jess — September 18, 2009 @ 3:33 pm
Oh, Shorty. What a goober.
Learning to knit – STILL.
Comment by Artemisia — September 18, 2009 @ 3:40 pm
So, I’m trying to figure out how Shorty pretends to be an alligator? I’ve got nothing.
But I totally agree with the football and new posts on my fave blogs making me happy!
Comment by sarah — September 18, 2009 @ 4:38 pm
Yay, fall! Yay, good TV again!
Comment by Nowheymama — September 18, 2009 @ 6:03 pm
MMMMmmm, caramel apples.
My doc office asked the same thing about bringing meds in. It was a cardiologist, though, and I was the youngest by at least 30 years in the waiting room. I figured the request was because the old people were clueless.
Comment by Shelly — September 18, 2009 @ 6:20 pm
If Shorty is half the dog you say he is than he should have his own reality show.
Comment by Dawn — September 18, 2009 @ 8:48 pm
I would totally “forgot my inhaler, OMG I must have left it on the bathroom counter, sorry!”
Comment by Swistle — September 19, 2009 @ 7:14 pm
I love pumpkin spice lattes (sadly, the nearest Starbucks is 90 mi S), the changing leaves, and how it’s still warm during the day but pretty chilly at night. I love the thunder/lightening storms we get here a good portion of the season.
Comment by amber — September 20, 2009 @ 2:52 pm
Fall
FALL
fallfallfallfallfall
Comment by Shelly — September 21, 2009 @ 9:47 am
i think you should bring just the drugs you do take… but, like, all poured out of their bottles and jumbled together in a huge ziplock bag.
Comment by Alice — September 21, 2009 @ 4:41 pm
I rue the end of summer, but, in my constant effort to live in the moment, I embrace the warmth of these late-summer days. Oh, wait, today’s fall.
Um, nevermind.
Comment by Ellie — September 22, 2009 @ 7:49 am
I HAVE taken in all my bottles of generic over the counter pills (Vits and others) that I take and the nurse and doctor informed me I didn’t need to. That as long as I listed them it was OK. This Oct. for my next appt. I informed the lady at the appt. desk that last year when I brought them all in this is what they said last year. She said “Well, I wish they had informed us here! I also told her that I would need a little red wagon to cart them in since I buy them in huge bulk bottles to save $. She didn’t seem amused. Not too sure how I will handle it this appt.
Comment by A Mom — September 24, 2009 @ 9:46 am