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Hump Day Happenings
1. Yesterday, Emma and I left the house at 8:15 for her 9:15 appointment. We didn't get there until about 12:20 because a tractor trailer caught fire on the interstate, and they closed all lanes of traffic, and we were trapped for a few hours with no way to get off. Fortunately, the neuro allowed us to come on in; some docs would cancel your appointment and charge you for the privilege to boot.
2. I am even madder at that pediatric rheumatologist today. Protip for everyone: I just recently realized that Lapcorp now has a website; you can create a login even if you don't have an old bill or statement laying around (they ask you questions about cars you have owned to prove it's you; it's very Big Brother), and you can add your dependents, and then it populates all the labs you've ever had with Lapcorp. So I've got PDFs of labs going back to like 2011 which is really useful, and I've also got all the kids' labs. So I went and looked at the labs done three years ago on Emma. Contrary to Scully, I am not a medical doctor, so I get that maybe I am missing something, but that doc didn't even do an ANA test, didn't even test her for RA antibodies. She did like a pretty comprehensive metabolic and CBC and the general bloodwork everybody should be getting pretty regularly from their doc and she did do this sedimentation rate thing that is associated with RA, but that's it. WTF? She didn't even do the one thing she was so concerned about right? I mean, I kept at it. Next stop was the pediatric neuro. But I was really discouraged, and after the neuro, I pretty much did give up on pursuing anything else for awhile. I keep turning over in my mind how differently the last three years could have gone if this woman had done her damn job. Why is my neurologist running a more comprehensive autoimmune intake than someone who treats autoimmune disorders? If every single rheumatologist and endocrinologist made every new patient take the same battery of labs that he does, so many people's lives would be different. I just. *primal scream*
3. One of Fiona's teachers is a former student. Fortunately she assures me that she had a good experience in my class. LOL Nothing to make you feel old like watching your students grow up and enter the work force. I haven't had the experience of teaching the children of students yet; I'm sure that's coming though. (Or mom's experience of being nursed by a former student; she said they would get so so nervous when they realized their former professor was their patient, but she got Best Care. LOL My dad also gets Best Care at the Cancer Center and etc because so many nurses in the area are mom's former students.)
4.
The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I love this book so much. The prose is beautiful. I love the shifting perspectives, the way Le Guin interweaves the narratives of the colonizers and the colonized, the way that even the most sympathetic of the yumens cannot be free of the corruption of imperialism (and indeed is unaware of some facets of that corruption).
Such a poignant and heartrending ending. Excellent read.
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5. Maybe I'll finish my classes today, and maybe I won't. Maybe I will save it for a mad scramble next week. I'll go get a coin and John Sheppard it up.
2. I am even madder at that pediatric rheumatologist today. Protip for everyone: I just recently realized that Lapcorp now has a website; you can create a login even if you don't have an old bill or statement laying around (they ask you questions about cars you have owned to prove it's you; it's very Big Brother), and you can add your dependents, and then it populates all the labs you've ever had with Lapcorp. So I've got PDFs of labs going back to like 2011 which is really useful, and I've also got all the kids' labs. So I went and looked at the labs done three years ago on Emma. Contrary to Scully, I am not a medical doctor, so I get that maybe I am missing something, but that doc didn't even do an ANA test, didn't even test her for RA antibodies. She did like a pretty comprehensive metabolic and CBC and the general bloodwork everybody should be getting pretty regularly from their doc and she did do this sedimentation rate thing that is associated with RA, but that's it. WTF? She didn't even do the one thing she was so concerned about right? I mean, I kept at it. Next stop was the pediatric neuro. But I was really discouraged, and after the neuro, I pretty much did give up on pursuing anything else for awhile. I keep turning over in my mind how differently the last three years could have gone if this woman had done her damn job. Why is my neurologist running a more comprehensive autoimmune intake than someone who treats autoimmune disorders? If every single rheumatologist and endocrinologist made every new patient take the same battery of labs that he does, so many people's lives would be different. I just. *primal scream*
3. One of Fiona's teachers is a former student. Fortunately she assures me that she had a good experience in my class. LOL Nothing to make you feel old like watching your students grow up and enter the work force. I haven't had the experience of teaching the children of students yet; I'm sure that's coming though. (Or mom's experience of being nursed by a former student; she said they would get so so nervous when they realized their former professor was their patient, but she got Best Care. LOL My dad also gets Best Care at the Cancer Center and etc because so many nurses in the area are mom's former students.)
4.
The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le GuinMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
I love this book so much. The prose is beautiful. I love the shifting perspectives, the way Le Guin interweaves the narratives of the colonizers and the colonized, the way that even the most sympathetic of the yumens cannot be free of the corruption of imperialism (and indeed is unaware of some facets of that corruption).
Such a poignant and heartrending ending. Excellent read.
View all my reviews
5. Maybe I'll finish my classes today, and maybe I won't. Maybe I will save it for a mad scramble next week. I'll go get a coin and John Sheppard it up.