Itchy and Scratchy redux
Friday, September 18th, 2009 04:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanHo hum.
I have cracked and arranged an appointment with the Quack for Monday afternoon. The Itch Begone soothes, but has not cured my shin and I think it may slowly be getting worse, so before I start limping into grunge territory, I shall go and see the doctor.
No doubt he or she will take a cursory glance, prescribe something that will make my leg drop off, and then tell me that I need a blood test. I must have been a real rat in a previous incarnation: doctors always want to stick pins in me and draw blood as often as they can. Well, that contradicts my maximum one-bodge-in-the-arm-a-year policy. That said, it’s ages since I let them have their syringe full, so if it shuts the buggers up…
I doubt that the cachet of giving up smoking is still current and if I tell them that I have lost just over a stone in weight, I am sure that will be shrugged off with an encouraging ‘lose some more’. Still, I have timed it so I can leave the office at about three on Monday afternoon, so it’s not all bad.
I have cracked and arranged an appointment with the Quack for Monday afternoon. The Itch Begone soothes, but has not cured my shin and I think it may slowly be getting worse, so before I start limping into grunge territory, I shall go and see the doctor.
No doubt he or she will take a cursory glance, prescribe something that will make my leg drop off, and then tell me that I need a blood test. I must have been a real rat in a previous incarnation: doctors always want to stick pins in me and draw blood as often as they can. Well, that contradicts my maximum one-bodge-in-the-arm-a-year policy. That said, it’s ages since I let them have their syringe full, so if it shuts the buggers up…
I doubt that the cachet of giving up smoking is still current and if I tell them that I have lost just over a stone in weight, I am sure that will be shrugged off with an encouraging ‘lose some more’. Still, I have timed it so I can leave the office at about three on Monday afternoon, so it’s not all bad.
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Date: 2009-09-18 04:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-09-18 08:46 pm (UTC)As a worried onlooker who has watched Mr M in his fight against cellulitis on his shin you can imagine the thoughts that went through my mind as I read your journal. He has had four different courses of antibiotics and steroid cream and emmollient cream and of the last course of antibiotics hadn't stoopped the creep of the lurgy up his leg they intended to admit him to hospital and give him huge doses intravenously...
I rest my case.