fillion vs comic shop; doctor; work
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amezriAmusing Browncoat news. Nathan Fillion had some issues trying to buy an issue of the Serenity comic. Basically, the jerkoff store owner tried to charge $20 for new issue that's marked $2.99. Which is really ridiculous.
+ what Nathan had to say - registration required - (and I believe Nathan's point was not that he couldn't pay $20 for it, but that the owner was charging others this insane price)
+ reaction at fireflyfans.net along with a copy of Nathan's post
+ an employee of the comic shop posts observations
+ reactions on comicbloc
+ newsrama reactions
This is interesting to me as I've not had a local comic shop in many, many years and I buy everything online.
And now I talk about my trip to the doctor.
Left work after 3 hours of walking around doing frell all. Got to the doctor's office just in time. The nurse did all the standard stuff like weighing me and checking heart rate. Turns out I lost 7 pounds since the last time I was in. Seven. That's a lot of weight and since I started at 115 around May, 108 three weeks ago, and now am 101? I'm not amused. Especially when I'm not trying to lose the weight. Anyway, there were more questions of the "what is wrong with you?" variety. Then she went to fetch the doctor.
I like Doctor Kronick. He's not phoney or too enthusiastic. He's sort of subdued and, I suspect, very sarcastic. Which, as we know, is my kind of people. We went over the list of what's been wrong with me and he basically listened and asked a lot of questions, not really saying too much, but I could tell he was thinking. I mentioned the whole not hungry thing, the vision problem, and the messing up data entry. Those were the things, along with weight loss, that he was concerned about. I don't know how long it was, but he was pretty well baffled. However, he said to me, "you're going to make this hard for me, aren't you?" which is waaaay better than Mir saying, "what do you want me to do?"
In the end, he ruled out an infection, female problems, and diabetes and said he didn't feel more blood tests would be helpful. He did, however, feel an MRI would be appropriate and thought therapy couldn't hurt in case this was stress related. He doesn't think the MRI will show anything, but he wants to rule out neuralogical problems before going forward with something else. He wasn't ready to prescribe medication as he doesn't think any of my symptoms indicate the need for it. Yay.
Crap. I forgot where I was going with this. Argh.
I went to the medical imaging office to schedule an appointment for the MRI and the receptionist said if I wanted to wait 15 minutes, they'd have a slot free tonight. So I waited, because why come back if I don't need to? MRIs are weird. And the vibrations made my jaw ache for some reason. It was weird. Everyone there was really nice though. I'm really liking this health park - everything is in the same building and I really haven't encountered any personnel that have been rude or indifferent.
Tomorrow I'm going to call the therapy group and set up an appointment for some time soonish.
Meh. I really don't want to go in tomorrow. I suspect that has a lot to do with me being aggro and annoyed. And hating the job. Or something. My boss decided to bring me in for 8 hours tomorrow and additional hours next week. Argh. What happened to cutting back payroll hours? Which, actually she is, but instead of full shifts a couple times a week, I'm getting shitty half-shifts every day. This blows. *disgruntled*
Am I stressed because I'm sick or am I sick because I'm stressed?
+ what Nathan had to say - registration required - (and I believe Nathan's point was not that he couldn't pay $20 for it, but that the owner was charging others this insane price)
+ reaction at fireflyfans.net along with a copy of Nathan's post
+ an employee of the comic shop posts observations
+ reactions on comicbloc
+ newsrama reactions
This is interesting to me as I've not had a local comic shop in many, many years and I buy everything online.
And now I talk about my trip to the doctor.
Left work after 3 hours of walking around doing frell all. Got to the doctor's office just in time. The nurse did all the standard stuff like weighing me and checking heart rate. Turns out I lost 7 pounds since the last time I was in. Seven. That's a lot of weight and since I started at 115 around May, 108 three weeks ago, and now am 101? I'm not amused. Especially when I'm not trying to lose the weight. Anyway, there were more questions of the "what is wrong with you?" variety. Then she went to fetch the doctor.
I like Doctor Kronick. He's not phoney or too enthusiastic. He's sort of subdued and, I suspect, very sarcastic. Which, as we know, is my kind of people. We went over the list of what's been wrong with me and he basically listened and asked a lot of questions, not really saying too much, but I could tell he was thinking. I mentioned the whole not hungry thing, the vision problem, and the messing up data entry. Those were the things, along with weight loss, that he was concerned about. I don't know how long it was, but he was pretty well baffled. However, he said to me, "you're going to make this hard for me, aren't you?" which is waaaay better than Mir saying, "what do you want me to do?"
In the end, he ruled out an infection, female problems, and diabetes and said he didn't feel more blood tests would be helpful. He did, however, feel an MRI would be appropriate and thought therapy couldn't hurt in case this was stress related. He doesn't think the MRI will show anything, but he wants to rule out neuralogical problems before going forward with something else. He wasn't ready to prescribe medication as he doesn't think any of my symptoms indicate the need for it. Yay.
Crap. I forgot where I was going with this. Argh.
I went to the medical imaging office to schedule an appointment for the MRI and the receptionist said if I wanted to wait 15 minutes, they'd have a slot free tonight. So I waited, because why come back if I don't need to? MRIs are weird. And the vibrations made my jaw ache for some reason. It was weird. Everyone there was really nice though. I'm really liking this health park - everything is in the same building and I really haven't encountered any personnel that have been rude or indifferent.
Tomorrow I'm going to call the therapy group and set up an appointment for some time soonish.
Meh. I really don't want to go in tomorrow. I suspect that has a lot to do with me being aggro and annoyed. And hating the job. Or something. My boss decided to bring me in for 8 hours tomorrow and additional hours next week. Argh. What happened to cutting back payroll hours? Which, actually she is, but instead of full shifts a couple times a week, I'm getting shitty half-shifts every day. This blows. *disgruntled*
Am I stressed because I'm sick or am I sick because I'm stressed?
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Date: 2005-08-05 07:03 am (UTC)When I'm depressed I tend to either gain or loose weight and have gone through periods where I either don't stop eating or am not at all hungry.
Even if you are depressed it's nothing to worry about - it can be hard and horrible, but it's something that you can deal with.
*hugs*
Either way I hope everything is alright
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Date: 2005-08-05 08:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-10 05:21 pm (UTC)