Visiting the family Physician

   Now I'm aggravated, I went to the doctor. Ya wait until your totally miserable....can't stand the pain anymore...you think you have explained this. Haven't left the house in a month. Haven't felt like going outside AT ALL. Don't want to get up but can't stay in one position for an hour, sitting or lying down. you THINK you have explained this all correctly. Why do they only hear part of what you say? Why does it feel like it will take you 5 appointments for them to actually hear everything you have said, just repeat it every appt., MAYBEEEE they will have most of it by then. Unless they forgot the other 4 appts. It's happened!

  I find myself plotting how to convince them this is serious annnddd I have waited to come and talk to them about this too long, it's way past bad now, and I am NOT exaggerating what is going on.  Actually, I am usually understating everything! BUT... I am secretly plotting. I should look worse when I go. I mean I already am skipping the make-up, wearing the sweats (because I can't stand anything else and I don't care), hat so I don't have to do hair which I haven't bothered to dye in months ( I used to care) and I don't even want to use a blow-dryer. BUT... I must not look bad enough it apparently isn't connecting with the doctor that I AM MISERABLE! Sooooo.... should I go in the cow pj's that I wear EVERY day with the matching HUGE Outer Banks long sleeve T-shirt and my fuzzy boot slippers. Would that make my point? Do I have to look as miserable as I feel to get the point across?

  I really don't think I could look as bad as I feel sometimes. I mean it was bad when I got fed up with my hair. It aggravated me to death, so I got out the clippers I used to do my boys hair at times and cut all my hair about 1/4 inch long. Looked horrible as I look back on it. At the time....I didn't care... it was bothering me. I have already gotten to my version of fat on me from inactivity and just not feeling like moving at all. Eating maybe once a day... if that...sometimes skipping a day or two. I know....not good.

  I really do want to know how to get the point across and make sure they HEAR all of it! I have had only 1 doctor like that in the 18 yrs of this and he retired a year and a half ago. This sent me spiraling down.