First define your battleground

[desperance]

It seems to have been a rough night for all of us. I have two slumpy cats here: one slumped across my knees, which puts him just this side of the keyboard, while the other slumps up against the further side of that same keyboard. They are eyeing each other. If they ever locate the energy to squabble, I fear for my fiction.

For myself: still can't breathe. Breathlessness is overrated. I'm going to go batter at the doctors again. My wheezing. Let me show you it.

Comments

[kateelliott.livejournal.com]

I hope you feel better very very soon. Wheezing is no fun. Is it asthma?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

It is. Classic straight-down-the-middle asthma, complicated only by my doctors' curious reluctance to give me the medication that will fix it. Sigh. Wheeze. Cough. They'll be sorry, I'm going to go and cough and wheeze all over them. I'm going now. Slowly, with many pauses.

[kateelliott.livejournal.com]

So one time I finally made my spouse go to the hospital because he was masking, and he went with the usual outraged male pride, and indignantly showed the doctor his albuterol inhaler (which was why he didn't need to go to the hospital) - it was expired AND empty. Gee, no wonder it wasn't helping.

Do cough all over the doctors. For shame that they're not giving you the meds you need.

[xnamkrad.livejournal.com]

Asthma is no fun - demand the inhaler or a written reason why he is refusing to prescribe it.
If the doctor won't help (and as I understand it in the UK you can't easily change your GP), could you go to the nearest A&E in hospital?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

That's the fallback position, which I'm hoping to avoid; it's the way they greet you as you walk in with the news that there's currently a four-hour wait to be seen...

(I do actually have an alternative fallback, which is a whole sheaf of doctor friends, any one of whom could and would write me a scrip; I just hate to ask. They're my friends, not my dealers...)

[footlingagain.livejournal.com]

I hope you don't have to do the alternative fallback, but if you do, just think of it as an homage to 'House'. Greg wouldn't have any problems with asking.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Hee. That is so true. Gregory House as role-model. Yay...

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

I do hope this is All Better by now, and shame on the doctor etc. if they haven't done something to Make It So.
Allergies with all their various manifestations are teh Suxxorz.

[beckyzoole.livejournal.com]

Feel better soon!

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear this, Chaz. Force those doctors to give you something to help. Remind them you can kill them with your brain!

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Hee. Is true. Or if I fail, my cats can kill them with their cute evilness...