"It’s not like things are worse, I mean they are, but it’s not like that, or maybe it is. That isn’t really the whole problem, because it’s only the whole problem when it’s worse, which it isn’t. At least not most days. The whole thing is just there, especially when it isn’t worse, which it is, if you know what I mean."
And no, folks, this person is not being seen for a cognitive problem.
Can you be more or less specific?
ReplyDeleteMaybe. I mean, yes or no.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a high school term paper.
ReplyDeletemake sure you dictate that just to drive the transcriptionist crazy.
ReplyDeleteI'm dizzy now.
ReplyDeletewhat would be even more interesting is if you actually understood all of that.
ReplyDeletePaging Dr. Abbott. Dr. Bud Abbott. Please report to surgery.
ReplyDeleteThe frustration of chronic illness... I know what they mean.
ReplyDeleteI accidentally pulled one of these on my neurologist the other day. That's what he gets for scheduling my appointment so early in the morning.
ReplyDeleteYou aren't the only one with this problem... I get calls like that all the time.....
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean, except I kind of don't, you know?
ReplyDeleteI don't know how to send this to you, Dr. Grumpy, other than in a comment.
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There's speculation that this is a stroke in action. What do you think?
No idea. I'm just a yak herder.
ReplyDeleteChernobyl plant operator to his boss , just before.............
ReplyDeleteWell, that was clear and to the point.
ReplyDeleteI hope you were able to make the thing less when it was there, and more un-severe when it wasn't worse.
"And did you ever think that the whole universe could just be an atom in someone's fingernail?"
ReplyDeleteIn the psych. world, we call this a "mixed episode." Frustrating for both patient and the person treating the patient.
ReplyDeleteThe sad thing is that I kind of understood all of that mumbo jumbo... LOL
I can't tell if this is too much Ativan or not enough Ativan. Or Haldol maybe.
ReplyDeleteThe sad thing is... I have a chronic illness, and I could have said those exact words to one of my docs. That's really scary! lol Guess it's a good thing I don't see a neuro - there might be lots of tests in my future, otherwise!
ReplyDeleteWow, Dude, I want some of what he's having
ReplyDeletePilots have a useful little phrase for when they don't hear something clearly in communications with Air Traffic Control: :"Say again?"
ReplyDeleteI have found that it is quite a useful phrase when not in an airplane cockpit, and if I were you, I would have used it right then...
ahh.. I understand.. this is why I've started making exact notes of what I want to say before I go to my doctors appts
ReplyDeleteAaaargh!
ReplyDeleteSounds like me. It wasn't me, was it?
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Is that person blonde, perhaps?
ReplyDeleteHeard a radio ad last week claiming I could get my floral arrangement done by an "Artisinal Floral Expert". That's a new one.
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