At the Doctor's office

A view that nobody sees usually, the end of the office building. They had a fire here several years ago, and while the building was being rennovated, I was seen in some rooms that I hadn't ever visited before. Then all was refurbished and I was back into the same consultation rooms.

These days my doctor is on leave, until November. Some kind of family emergency is what people say when asked. Someone knows, but it's not talked about. I can guess.

Anyway, the office continues to work with 2 Nurse Practioners seeing patients, and their NP students learning along side of them. I also still have my Physician's Assistant as my phone consultation once a month. They all have access to all my records....such as they are kept. On this visit I found that one medication I've taken for years wasn't indicated on my list. It was one that had just been increased in dosage.

I balked last time I was seen, that I didn't want to have a student treat me. She said, ok, you'll have to wait till the NP is done seeing other clients. What, I thought? I had an appointment too! But she got the message, and this time she was there for all the things we discussed and decided.
 

I've had many a mammogram in a mobile unit in their parking lot but not this time! This time a new vehicle was a trailer parked and running on this system of batteries. Since I know it has chilly air-conditioning, that must be one drain of electricity...then there are the X-ray machines which capture the bumps and blobs within our mammary tissues on digital films. I was interested to see this is how it all is being done these days.

Well, that was the day I stopped taking one drug, and started another (antibiotic) on Tues. this week. I haven't responded with any great decrease in coughing, nor the tiredness it brings on with just the antibiotic, and wish I had the addition of a sterioid boost too. I'll call them tomorrow and see if it's possible to get that addition to the antibiotic treatment. 

Note: They couldn't find room in schedule to see me on Fri, and I found out they won't write any prescriptions without seeing someone. Grrrr.

And looking at promises of rain for Saturday, and my health issues, I've canceled being at the Tailgate Market this Saturday.

I've given lots of details of my Friday experiences over in "When I Was 69" yesterday.

Today's quote:

Nobody has the slightest idea how anything material could be conscious. Nobody even knows what it would be like to have the slightest idea about how anything material could be conscious. 

So much for the philosophy of consciousness.

 

—Daniel D. Hutto
An Ideal Solution to the Problems of Consciousness

Bricks tell the story

 

Tall ceilings and hard surfaces make for a very echoy sound that travels a long way in this doctor's office in Old Fort.  But the exam rooms do have lowered ceilings and afford privacy.

The nurses have a bulletin board that gives medical information. 

At some point in this building's life (I do wonder what it originally was) there was an entrance on this wall...now bricked in.

I seldom pay attention to the furniture that stands along the walls. No idea who it belonged to either. Maybe if I'd read some of the signs I would have found out!

Post #1 on Farm Animal Awareness

This National Farm Animal Awareness Week in September is the perfect time to remember that farm animals are the ones who suffer the most while advocates exhaust their resources fighting potential allies.

Nearly 80 billion sensitive, playful, intelligent pigs, chickens, cows, and turkeys are raised and slaughtered each year for meat, milk, and eggs.

The majority of these animals are intensively confined entirely indoors or crowded together in barren feedlots where they suffer immensely. Source: "Meat and Dairy Production." Our World in Data.

All of this information was published in the Treehugger Newsletter today: Factory Farming Is More Destructive Than Ever

Plant-based and sustainable farming advocates must join forces to fight it.

By

Daisy Freund

Published September 19, 2022 09:19AM EDT