your secret is safe with me Puma
Cap... it's amazing to find out that you were stressed when you didn't really think you were. My doc is a great guy. Salt of the earth type and all of that but he's dang quick to diagnose 'depression' and slap scripts in your hand. Like I said above there were way too many nights that I went to bed and found out the next day that I was wandering around spouting random nonsense and didn't remember ANY of it. And I was cutting the doses in halfs and quarters. I'm still dealing with insomnia to a small degree but I'll take that and the headaches over being completely out of control any day.
All of that aside anybody want to set a time to fly the kites tomorrow? Looks like we had some guys in but not enough numbers earlier today. Looks like a good opportunity for hilarity to ensue if we get enough of us in there..
I have a wacky idea. I wonder if we could do PT boat races one fine Sunday. KS off and race around a battlegroup. First one back to the port wins.... Nice de stressing exercise before hitting the M - F grind. Screen shots could be epic!!!!
well.....quite often, where doctors are concerned, i should be wearing one of these.....
i basically don't like doctors, and don't trust em anymore. well.....2 i do. one is a customer, and a friend. he's a pediatrician. the other is a foot doctor..the one that took care of my infected toe(from an ingrown nail) last year. he also took care of the venous ulcer i had on my ankle.
so far, i've found both of them to honest.
my problem with dr's though, is that like you said....they're too quick to slap a presctiption. when i was a kid, the family doc. kept trying to get me to take some pills to "calm me down". grandmom would give them to me, i'd tuck it between my cheek and gum...when she wasn't looking, i'd spit it out. i was....and still am......hyper. big deal. is there REALLY anything wrong with a hyperactive kid?
they tried to give me a drug to make me pay attention in school, 'cause i used to daydream a lot. well....guess what.......the teachers were a little less exciting than watching the weeds grow in the driveway.
it's gotten worse now. can't sleep? takes this pill. can't get it up? take this pill. can't get up in the morning? take this pill. can't poop every day? take these pills.
my mom. she retired about 12 years ago. within 5 years, she was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. that's the one ya get from being overweight, and inactive. could the doc tell her she needed to do some walking, or maybe join a bowling league? nooooo....he friggin gives her pills.
she went for a colonostpy? i think it is? she's always nervous at those places. they hook ya up to monitoring things i presume.....they saw her heart rate go up high. they sent her to the er. scared her even worse. kept her there for 3 days, saying she needed to get "zapped" to put her heart back in rythem(admittedly, mom has less rythem than i do). thankfully, she didn't do that, although she listened to em about the blood thinners. they made her short of breath. she listened to me and stopped them.
just a week or so ago, they gave her another med for something or other......high heart rate again i think. it made her woozy. sounded like she had just smoked a joint,.
all of her high heart rate and diabetes problems would be solved, if only she'd do something.....but she won't listen to me or my brother, 'cause we don't have those certificates on the wall. we only have common sense to go on.
and my uncle(her brother 2 years younger than her) retired from ups. within 2 years, diagnosed with type 2. he joine a bowling league, and started golfing more. rather strangely, the diabetes went away.
i know there's times we need em, but seeing what i see, scares the crap outta me. by the time our kids are grown, there's not gonna be one single person not taking medication for somethgin or other.
sorry for the rant.........