Saturday, May 28, 2005
Wednesday was the EMG and the Motor F Wave Study, Nefve Conduction Study, and Sensory Study. What it boils down to is that I was tortured like a POW. Really.
I walk into the neuro's office and fill out the ton of paperwork one has as a new patient. The tests were to run some 573 dollars(OMG) and i have paid in 0 dollars of my annual deductible and of course they wanted to know how much I was gonna pay right this second. Well, I smiled, if you promise not to run to the bank with the check and cash it, I'll write it for the full amount and go to the bank and transfer funds. Well the little girl working the front asked me how much i could pay without having to transfer funds, and they would set up a payment schedule for the rest. How kind...
Any way, then i sit and sit
At one point a cutiepie doctor walked thru the glassed in area where the office people are and i think i recognize him, but decide i must be mistaken
Finally I am called to go wait forever in a room. When the doctor walks in, it is the cutiepie and i was right---he was my former next door neighbor before my recent move. I had known he was a doctor but never knew his name. We occasionally spoke about mundane pleasantries when we both happened to be outside, but never hooked up though i did have lustful thought about the man. He had too many young lady friends staying overnight for me to get the chance, sigh.
ANYWAY, where was I?
Oh yes, cutiepie.(pause for a short fantasy)
(oops, lets pause a lil longer, cause that was really really good)
he is taken aback that it is me
he asks what happened to me that all of a sudden other people were living in my house
i explained that i had been renting that house and had bought a home
he tells me about the new people and i try to understand everyword but he is lebanese and i cant understand it all but i smile and nod
this becomes a slight problem during the tests when i dont understand exactly what he wants me to do and he has to pantomine
yes his very touch was magnicicent even though he was inflicting horrible pain on me
he even told me before we started that these tests were very unpleasant
the first part, the EMG is done by attaching probes to the skin and conducting jolts of electricity through various nerves which after the first jolt, he exclaimed, oh my you have EXCELLENT nerve function! Let me turn it down a bit. (But it still hurt like hell)
that part of the torture revealed that no it was not a return of carpal tunnel syndrome.
the next part was like scene from some horror movie
he shoved, as gently as he could, but it was horrible, into my palm, three places in my wrist, midway between wrist and elbow, in the biceps, and in the triceps. each was put in, a reading taken and then removed and then he would apply pressure till the bleeding stopped; then on to the next one
at one point, i dont remeber quite when he asked me (again) about when the pain had begun and this time i mentioned that i had awakened with it one morning, screaming in agony
he said, 'ah, now it all falls into place'
when he did the needles in the back of the neck it gave him the answer
i have a pinched nerve in my neck causing this pain in my wrist elbow shoulder and neck, and numbness in hand and fingers
he told me that he knew exactly how painful this was as he had a pinched nerve in his own neck when he first moved to lake charles
i forgot to mention that in the interview at the beginning he asked what i had been taking for pain. i told him indocin 2-3 times a day and advil, 2 every 4-6 hours
he looked shocked and said, 'you arent mixing them are you?'
i said, no, i wasnt taking them at the same time, but yes in the same day
he looked very solemn and said--dont do that anymore
shitshitshit
taking just one or the other hadnt helped enough i needed both
fuckfuckfuck
anyway, he gives me a Rx for a different antiinflammatory and some free samples of a muscle relaxer and says i need an mri on my neck and some physical therapy
he will send the results and his opinions for treatment to my pdoc
then he says, wait here
after about 10 minutes he returns and says you may go now
odd
i go to the desk to get my receipt and the girl says,' i have to give you your check back'
my eyes get big and i tell her i know the check is good
she laughs and says that my treatment will be insurance only
thank you lebanese cutiepie
i REALLY wanna lick you all over now
I walk into the neuro's office and fill out the ton of paperwork one has as a new patient. The tests were to run some 573 dollars(OMG) and i have paid in 0 dollars of my annual deductible and of course they wanted to know how much I was gonna pay right this second. Well, I smiled, if you promise not to run to the bank with the check and cash it, I'll write it for the full amount and go to the bank and transfer funds. Well the little girl working the front asked me how much i could pay without having to transfer funds, and they would set up a payment schedule for the rest. How kind...
Any way, then i sit and sit
At one point a cutiepie doctor walked thru the glassed in area where the office people are and i think i recognize him, but decide i must be mistaken
Finally I am called to go wait forever in a room. When the doctor walks in, it is the cutiepie and i was right---he was my former next door neighbor before my recent move. I had known he was a doctor but never knew his name. We occasionally spoke about mundane pleasantries when we both happened to be outside, but never hooked up though i did have lustful thought about the man. He had too many young lady friends staying overnight for me to get the chance, sigh.
ANYWAY, where was I?
Oh yes, cutiepie.(pause for a short fantasy)
(oops, lets pause a lil longer, cause that was really really good)
he is taken aback that it is me
he asks what happened to me that all of a sudden other people were living in my house
i explained that i had been renting that house and had bought a home
he tells me about the new people and i try to understand everyword but he is lebanese and i cant understand it all but i smile and nod
this becomes a slight problem during the tests when i dont understand exactly what he wants me to do and he has to pantomine
yes his very touch was magnicicent even though he was inflicting horrible pain on me
he even told me before we started that these tests were very unpleasant
the first part, the EMG is done by attaching probes to the skin and conducting jolts of electricity through various nerves which after the first jolt, he exclaimed, oh my you have EXCELLENT nerve function! Let me turn it down a bit. (But it still hurt like hell)
that part of the torture revealed that no it was not a return of carpal tunnel syndrome.
the next part was like scene from some horror movie
he shoved, as gently as he could, but it was horrible, into my palm, three places in my wrist, midway between wrist and elbow, in the biceps, and in the triceps. each was put in, a reading taken and then removed and then he would apply pressure till the bleeding stopped; then on to the next one
at one point, i dont remeber quite when he asked me (again) about when the pain had begun and this time i mentioned that i had awakened with it one morning, screaming in agony
he said, 'ah, now it all falls into place'
when he did the needles in the back of the neck it gave him the answer
i have a pinched nerve in my neck causing this pain in my wrist elbow shoulder and neck, and numbness in hand and fingers
he told me that he knew exactly how painful this was as he had a pinched nerve in his own neck when he first moved to lake charles
i forgot to mention that in the interview at the beginning he asked what i had been taking for pain. i told him indocin 2-3 times a day and advil, 2 every 4-6 hours
he looked shocked and said, 'you arent mixing them are you?'
i said, no, i wasnt taking them at the same time, but yes in the same day
he looked very solemn and said--dont do that anymore
shitshitshit
taking just one or the other hadnt helped enough i needed both
fuckfuckfuck
anyway, he gives me a Rx for a different antiinflammatory and some free samples of a muscle relaxer and says i need an mri on my neck and some physical therapy
he will send the results and his opinions for treatment to my pdoc
then he says, wait here
after about 10 minutes he returns and says you may go now
odd
i go to the desk to get my receipt and the girl says,' i have to give you your check back'
my eyes get big and i tell her i know the check is good
she laughs and says that my treatment will be insurance only
thank you lebanese cutiepie
i REALLY wanna lick you all over now
