going to see the vampire
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simplyn2deepwell not exactly.
finally bit the bullet and called the doctor (I so painstakingly looked for and compared to other doctors) and made my first appointment. I've had insurance all of 41 days and you'd think after NOT having it for over 10 years, I'd JUMP at the chance to see the doctor and have a complete physical...only nope. It's not high on my list of priorities, but you know, since I actually have insurance now, I should use it.
So yes, appointment made for May 16 at 9:15am. They want me to fast the night before because the first thing I'll be doing (well after I fill out paperwork) is go to the lab to have blood drawn (hence the subject of going to see the vampire).
I should start my list of everything that's wrong with me so that I don't forget due to nerves, no seriously, I was getting anxious just making the appointment. So far, the list consists of 2 things: very irregular menstrual cycle (I don't mind, but in the next 5-6 years I'd like to have kids and back of my head there's the idea that something's wrong and I won't be able to physically have any) and for the last 1-2 months I've had these rash like bumps on my arms, but only at night; now since it's summer and I wear shorts and tank tops, they're showing up more places, but still only showing at night and they're gone by morning and it's not every night.
In a bit of other news.
Jobs rejections across the board. They all tell me I'm an excellent candidate but they're going with someone else. I wonder if it's because I'm still in school? We'll see if I get more calls.
Speaking of still being in school...I've got 2 more weeks to go for this semester. I'm looking at either 2 As and a B or 2 Bs and an A. Either way, it's passing and I won't have to take anymore Criminal Justice classes for the undergraduate course work.
While I need to take or try to take a class this summer, I'm not financially able to do so. I mean, I'll get financial aid from the school, but I really need to find a job and if I have a class and I'm offered something, I'll have to drop the class or decline the job, neither of which I want to do. But in the grand scheme of things, I really need 2 more freakin' math classes (one is a prerequisite to get the other) to transfer. There are all the classes I need to take at the university to have my Bachelor's Degree. I think it's something like 8-10 classes? I need to contact the university and ICDC College to see if any courses are transferable. If so, the number of classes I take will be less as I took them when I was working on my paralegal degree/certificate.
finally bit the bullet and called the doctor (I so painstakingly looked for and compared to other doctors) and made my first appointment. I've had insurance all of 41 days and you'd think after NOT having it for over 10 years, I'd JUMP at the chance to see the doctor and have a complete physical...only nope. It's not high on my list of priorities, but you know, since I actually have insurance now, I should use it.
So yes, appointment made for May 16 at 9:15am. They want me to fast the night before because the first thing I'll be doing (well after I fill out paperwork) is go to the lab to have blood drawn (hence the subject of going to see the vampire).
I should start my list of everything that's wrong with me so that I don't forget due to nerves, no seriously, I was getting anxious just making the appointment. So far, the list consists of 2 things: very irregular menstrual cycle (I don't mind, but in the next 5-6 years I'd like to have kids and back of my head there's the idea that something's wrong and I won't be able to physically have any) and for the last 1-2 months I've had these rash like bumps on my arms, but only at night; now since it's summer and I wear shorts and tank tops, they're showing up more places, but still only showing at night and they're gone by morning and it's not every night.
In a bit of other news.
Jobs rejections across the board. They all tell me I'm an excellent candidate but they're going with someone else. I wonder if it's because I'm still in school? We'll see if I get more calls.
Speaking of still being in school...I've got 2 more weeks to go for this semester. I'm looking at either 2 As and a B or 2 Bs and an A. Either way, it's passing and I won't have to take anymore Criminal Justice classes for the undergraduate course work.
While I need to take or try to take a class this summer, I'm not financially able to do so. I mean, I'll get financial aid from the school, but I really need to find a job and if I have a class and I'm offered something, I'll have to drop the class or decline the job, neither of which I want to do. But in the grand scheme of things, I really need 2 more freakin' math classes (one is a prerequisite to get the other) to transfer. There are all the classes I need to take at the university to have my Bachelor's Degree. I think it's something like 8-10 classes? I need to contact the university and ICDC College to see if any courses are transferable. If so, the number of classes I take will be less as I took them when I was working on my paralegal degree/certificate.
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Date: 2014-05-09 05:32 pm (UTC)As for the menstrual cycle thing, it's good to get it checked out, but it may not be significant. I was always very irregular and thought (like you) that I might have a fertility issue, but I fell pregnant the one and only time we took a risk (too much champagne and too few precautions!) and then got pregnant with baby no. 2 the very first month we tried. So irregular doesn't necessarily mean a problem.
Funniest thing about it was how frustrated the medics got with me early in that first pregnancy - they kept wanting to know when my last period started so that they could calculate my due date, but of course I didn't know - we weren't actually trying for a baby so I wasn't keeping a record, and I was so irregular that I had no idea!
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Date: 2014-05-09 05:59 pm (UTC)When I used to go to the clinic for birth control pills and the doctor/nurse practitioner would ask when my last period was, I was embarrassed to say I hadn't had one for a few months, or one time, several years...or I'd get it and literally have it for several weeks or the whole month. Nothing heavy or anything, but enough to be an annoyance.
Now though, my mom wants to ply me with vitamins because her doctor told her SHE needed more. I eat fruits and veggies several times a day, plus take supplemental vitamins in the morning, unless my doctor says otherwise, I think I'm okay. I would like to go back to doing my green smoothies, but at $40/week for fruits and vegetables, we can't afford that