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mad as ....
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Hi.
Almost a year out. Soon it will be a year.
Have ESI number three tomorrow and not exactly looking forward to it.
I just want my normal life back and it just doesn't seem like I am getting it.
I'll have to talk with the pain doc tomorrow who is doing the ESI to hear what to expect next or the "where do we go from here?" talk.
His physcian assistant last Thursday really threw me off. Well not completely off; it just made me mad.
She just ignored the fact that I could have something wrong at L5/S1 and that L4/5, where I have an ADR, could be fine. She told me that I should go back to the neurosurgeon because "you have had just about everything done" and "if he finds you are a non-surgical candidate, you have two options, take more pain medications or consider a spinal cord stimmulator."
Being in the medical profession, I just don't get why a PA acts like this. I told her that an SCS was not an option. I also told her that the pain doc had told me differently.

Next time, I have to speak to her, I think I will tell her she is full of c%^p. I didn't even see the doctor who I was supposed to see because "he was not in".
Next time, I make an appt, I am going to make sure the doc will be in.

That's all. One more thing, tomorrow is a national call-in day to your representatives for support of a single-payer health insurance plan. We are so far out of balance with our health care, please speak up if you support change from these crazy insurance companies to a better plan. This is in my humble opinion of course.