Experiences with doctors
After being on ferries seven times last weekend, I suddenly felt like I was seasick after the boat, not while I was on it. My cousin and her friend were with me and they were both prepared with the acupressure point bands, ginger lozenges, non-drowsy dramamine. You name it, I took it all. They were the ones who had previously experienced seasickness, and I hadn’t! I consumed every natural product they had, took many ginger shots and nothing helped. Sometimes I felt like I was rocking side to side while sitting. While walking, it felt like I was, skipping from one cloud to another. Such a strange feeling.
I decided to go an ENT on Wednesday. I’d never the nurse practitioner before, but had with another doctor in her practice I loved.
She listened to every single word I said, and asked many questions. She gave me three different ways to deal with this. I ended up putting a patch behind my ear that’s supposed to help. The nurse practitioner suggested an oral steroid and I had no interest in taking that because it makes me wound up and unable to sleep. She agreed that it shouldn’t be the first step. She also suggested I go to a specific physical therapist to work it out. That may happen this week.
All this to say, she was extremely thorough, great listener, truly seemed to care about me. She gave me her email address if anything comes. I was super thankful to get an appointment same day, see such a wonderful nurse practitioner as it makes all the difference. I felt comfortable with her immediately and she definitely knew what she was talking about.
I was told not to touch the patch as if I then touch my eyes, I’d be blurry for a week or so. Naturally that’s exactly what happened in my sleep. Woke up with blurry vision.
So, please be patient with me this week as it’s really hard to see the screen right and there may be more grammatical errors than usual.
Today’s Prompt (21): Write about an experience with a doctor -- one you loved or hated. What impact did they have on your life? How did they treat you? What do you wish they did more or less of? How did they make you feel?