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Skriven 2014-12-20 21:34:22 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 21996 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
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Hi Michael,

 ML> I wonder if the treatment failure rates of that population
 ML> differ from those of the rest of us.
 RH> Don't know but my parents like that kind of doctor.

 ML> Somebody has to.

As long as we have any sort of choice, we'll let others go to them.

 ML>  In reality, my mom
 RH> should have been on insulin years ago but the doctor just gave her
 RH> oral meds.

 ML> There is a substantial movement toward oral meds vs. insulin,
 ML> probably fueled by those such as myself who refuse to
 ML> self-administer the needle.

I've no idea what the reasoning was, could be, they didn't think Mom
would have been able to. The last couple of years she was home, it would
not have been a good idea for her to self-administer it, and, TBH, I
don't think Dad could have done it for her. Also, if Mom wasn't happy
with her reading from one meter, she'd grab another (of a different
manufacturer; she had several) and take another reading. She eventually
gave that up; I think it was Dad's idea to do so, for some unknown
reason.


 ML>  He never asked what she was eating, suggested how to eat
 RH> better or anything like that tho I understand he did look at her
 RH> numbers at every visit. Not a doctor I'd be comfortable with.

 ML> That, however, sounds a little negligent.

I would not have settled for that. If I'd been able, I would have gone
to a doctor's visit with her and asked some hard questions. But, she
never had one scheduled while we were up there.

 ML> In my case, as the insurance is very powerful and also owned
 ML> by the hospital, it cleaves all those gordian knots with ease.
 ML> But why an area that churns out even more doctors than it does
 ML> musicians should have a shortage of the former and a glut of
 ML> the latter, that's sort of beyond me.
 RH> Tis a puzzlement indeed. You would think doctors would want to stay in
 RH> a metro area like Boston, pay off med school bills quickly. (G)

 ML> One guess: they also are very ambitious and might be
 ML> inclined to leverage their gilt-edged diplomas into
 ML> fancier titles and more money.

Easy to do in a small town where you're the only game in town.


 RH> Get yourself some sort of alarm clock, even if it's on a wrist watch
 RH> and train yourself to be aware of the sound it makes going off.

 ML> I kill consumer electronics. I am extremely sensitive
 ML> to sounds, but if they don't happen, that won't help.
 ML> I had an effective alerter on my computer (Free Alarm
 ML> Clock 2.7.0), but there's no longer sound on it either.
 ML> I might have investigated putting sound back on, but
 ML> it doesn't seem worth it for something I'd use 5x a
 ML> year. It was just that three of the times incided
 ML> within a week that made the annoyance.

Sigh! Still, you ought to have some source of a back up alarm.

 ML> I get the pulsing jagged colored lines that look sort of
 ML> like cartoon lightning bolts - my cue to mend my ways post
 ML> haste if not sooner.
 RH> Do you take a B complex vitamin? I was getting bad migraines when we
 RH> moved to Savannah so Steve suggested that. It has helped keep the
 RH> number and severity of them down.

 ML> I get plenty of B vitamins; it's likely a deficiency
 ML> in something else. Somebody suggested magnesium, and
 ML> that seems to work for me.

Could be that was what you needed. Your body chemistry is different from
mine so what worked for me, might not have worked for you, and vice
versa.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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