Idiot Doctor #5

[saitaina]

Originally published at Memoirs of a Nobody. You can comment here or there.

Dr: Michelle, Michelle! …why didn’t you answer?
Me: Because my name is Saitaina.
Dr: Yes, but I’ve known you since you were thirteen, you’ll always be Michelle to me! *smile*
Me: When I was thirteen…my name was Amanda.

Michelle, is of course, my mother. Though for some reason, Jackie thinks it’s my name. And I’m supposed to trust this woman with my health?

We did, via ignoring the doctors and making our own appointment with the ENT, discovered I have Ménière’s Disease, which is an ‘abnormality of the inner ear’, and later this month, I have an appointment with a gastroenterologist to have another endoscopy (I think that’s what she’s doing, wasn’t really paying attention when mum brought it up).

Also, I may resemble a whale, but my cholesterol and diabetes risk are at the level of a skinny person…yay! Go for eating good! Now to get out of this bed and lose the weight…or quit smoking, which ever’s easier. *grins*