Tuesday, May 26, 2009

MDS: A Doctoring We Will Go

Today, armed with a list of questions long enough to challenge the Manhattan phone book for length, Penny and I are off to see the MDS specialist. Penny must come along because most information imparted to me these days seems to take the express route in one ear and out the other.

Penny will bring a notebook and take notes. I'll just nod my head a lot.

It's somehow odd to think that there are specialists handing disorders that just three months ago I'd never heard of. Don't get me wrong. I'm glad these people are out there. I just wish I didn't have to be their patient.

Tomorrow, a visit to the primary care doc is the featured event. Thursday, it's the oncologist. Friday, just for a change of pace, it's the car doctor.

Not to worry—there's nothing wrong with the automobile. Just an oil change and other routine stuff.

Still, one wonders at the amount of time spent doctoring.

Next week it's back to daily injections. At some point, there's a dental crown that needs re-cementing. I also need new glasses.

But, hey, a boy must draw the line somewhere. Even if the boy can't see the line too well because the optometrist functions on the other side of that line.

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