[nagdu] Tired, depressed and discouraged

Sherri flmom2006 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 18 23:52:39 UTC 2010


Hi Gail,

I'm sorry you are having so many problems with your doctor. I can certainly 
identify! They just don't understand how expensive things are. After over 30 
years as a medical transcriptionist, I have concluded that much of what they 
do is guess work. Hang in there and best of luck!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gail" <deerskin at oct.net>
To: <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 6:58 PM
Subject: [nagdu] Tired, depressed and discouraged


>
> Well, we got back a little while ago, and I dont know what to think or do.
> The doc ran the Humphries *again* (third time now), and got the same kind 
> of
>
> Results. He just cant figure why-or accept- I see the dots around that
> Central light, and miss the others. It doesnt matter that I tell him 1)its
> Hard to sit there staring at that tiny yellow dot *and* catch all the 
> white
> Dots. 2) its hard to keep my concentration from wandering now and then, so
> That makes me lose some of them. 3) I see them, but I always click fast
> Enough to catch one before another pops up.4) some I miss just because I
> Have things floating in my eyes becaue of being tired or headache, so 
> those
> Can distract or cover dots.
>
> So, now he seems to have backed out of the Dxs he had given me before, and
> Now wants me to have an MRI and go to Kansas City- a drive of over 100 
> miles
>
> One way- to see a neuro there. I'm so tired and depressed that I cant
> Remember any more of what he said. But that trip will be expensive for 
> us-we
> have been married 20 years, and have never been able to afford to go to KC
> for anything other than to the airport to pick up someone-exhausting for 
> me,
> and I'm supposed to go there and be in one piece for more testing?! This 
> is
> getting weirder every time we go to this guy, but he keeps saying he has 
> to
> have this done. Yeah, like he said today's Humphries would be the definite
> test....
>
>
> But when three tests have the same results, of the visual field being the
> Same, why cant he accept that I have problems/legally blind, and we take
> Care of the KC trip some other time? This guy is driving me nuts, with his
> Inability to stick with one dx or accept what tests show him.... And with
> not even the dx he gave me 2 weeks ago, I'm toast.
>
> Gail
>
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