My dentist is one of the very feel that doesn't scare me to death.
I had bad eye problems in Jan.. BIG RED EYES and RED EYELIDS--nasty and scary looking. i went out and raked bagged leaves just before Christmas. I felt like I had pink eye--it seemed to get better- then get worse-than JAN---Oh my-- I went into Urgent care, and a week later my eye doctor.
I told the intake nurse that I knew that cancer and head radiation made this worse. I used special eye drops, hot eye compresses, flonase, night eye gel, Neilmed to care for the radiation area. I was told to not talk about cancer- everybody blamed everything on cancer. I was there for my eyes. The doctor examined me-told me that I should realize that cancer and head radiation made this much worse, He changed the type of eye drops and he told me to use Flonase, hot eye compresses, night eye gel, etc. OK--I was just glad to get an exam. OK, he's not any different than any other doctor about this.
I am so tired of lectures. I'm so enraged by lectures. Age doesn't help these stupid lectures. I'm not the rest of NM, I'm me. Treat me like me. I drive 2 vehicles-5-on-the-floor, If i had neurological problems, I wouldn't be able to get them out of the driveway. I kept telling them that if they wanted to, they could go out to the parking lot. I'd pull my ride where they couldn't smash it up. If the could start it the first time- shift to low and get it moving without popping the clutch, killing the engine, grinding gears, lurching, sitting and crying, stop it without killing it, THEN I MIGHT TALK TO THEM about my driving privileges.
You know, I went to renew my driver's license, and I told them about that. NM gave me a 10 year drivers license. They told me if any stupid medical staff bothered me again, to show my license and tell them this is what the NM DMV thinks about me driving. Then I spent over a year about diabetes-and they cited cancer as part of the reason, I say-- Si- Cancer left me over weight and apple shaped, but I'm not diabetic. A heavy hitter in NM took this cause up for me-so the problem doctors-following Medicare, etc guidelines backed off. But my BP goes so high. I do not know what in the world they'll come up with next.
