GoPokes83
05-06-2010, 12:07 PM
My back's just not responding to treatment. No big deal. So my surgeon says he wants to send me to get some steroid / collagen / whatever, shots into the ol" spine stick and maybe it'll "Jump start" some healing. I say "Whatever... I just want to feel better."
So I go to the new Dr. this morning, get poked and prodded around and he asks what pain medicines / muscle relaxers I'm on. (It was all in that 16 page "New Patient" form I filled out, so why ask me?") I tell him and he says that prolonged use of my muscle relaxers may cause kidney / liver issues down the road. He then asks me what I'd Like to be on. Cause when it comes to pills he's my man! No kiddin, the dude actually spoke those words to me! My reply was, "Whatever... I just want to feel better." So he pokes around some more and tells me he wants to put me on morphine.... MORPHINE!!!. He says that's the best course until we do my spine shots. I'm apprehensive but I say, "Whatever... I just want to feel better."
So we fill out forms and he brings his PA in to gawk at me. Then says, "See ya in a few weeks". As we're walking out his PA hands me a urine cup and asks me to fill it up. I tell him that i went in the lobby before I came in specifically because i didn't want to have to go while I'm waiting to see the Dr. I tell him I'll run down to the Chicken Express and get a couple of large iced teas and be back and raring to go in an hour or so. This dude tells me, "Sir we're going to have to ask you to not leave the lobby until you're able to give us a sample." So the Dr, walks by , hears whats up and he tells me that because of the morphine they need a urine test to see what other pain meds i may be taking. So now I'm pissed!!! I didn't ask for any drugs from this dude, I don't particularly want what he's prescribing, and they're treating me like some crackhead criminal who can't be trusted to leave the lobby! The nurse brings out some water for me and I start coolin' my heels in the lobby waiting for nature to take it's course. And now I'm just livid!!!! Which probably doesn't help the situation..... I so badly want to get up, tell them to buzz the door, (No escape without the receptionist buzzing you in or out. This joint's like a jewelry store in the ghetto!!)and tell them to "f' off on my way out the door. BUT!!! My Dr. referred me to this place and it's taken two weeks to even get an appointment. So any request by me for another specialist will only delay me from getting on with my life by another half month or so. So there I sit, and sit, and sit. FINALLY Mission accomplished I get my morphine prescription, (BTW heroin is synthetic morphine according to the nurse,. YEA!!) and get buzzed out. My 30 minute Dr.'s appointment took 3 HOURS 2 of which I was being held like a felon waiting to go the the slammer!!
"Whatever... I just want to feel better."
So I go to the new Dr. this morning, get poked and prodded around and he asks what pain medicines / muscle relaxers I'm on. (It was all in that 16 page "New Patient" form I filled out, so why ask me?") I tell him and he says that prolonged use of my muscle relaxers may cause kidney / liver issues down the road. He then asks me what I'd Like to be on. Cause when it comes to pills he's my man! No kiddin, the dude actually spoke those words to me! My reply was, "Whatever... I just want to feel better." So he pokes around some more and tells me he wants to put me on morphine.... MORPHINE!!!. He says that's the best course until we do my spine shots. I'm apprehensive but I say, "Whatever... I just want to feel better."
So we fill out forms and he brings his PA in to gawk at me. Then says, "See ya in a few weeks". As we're walking out his PA hands me a urine cup and asks me to fill it up. I tell him that i went in the lobby before I came in specifically because i didn't want to have to go while I'm waiting to see the Dr. I tell him I'll run down to the Chicken Express and get a couple of large iced teas and be back and raring to go in an hour or so. This dude tells me, "Sir we're going to have to ask you to not leave the lobby until you're able to give us a sample." So the Dr, walks by , hears whats up and he tells me that because of the morphine they need a urine test to see what other pain meds i may be taking. So now I'm pissed!!! I didn't ask for any drugs from this dude, I don't particularly want what he's prescribing, and they're treating me like some crackhead criminal who can't be trusted to leave the lobby! The nurse brings out some water for me and I start coolin' my heels in the lobby waiting for nature to take it's course. And now I'm just livid!!!! Which probably doesn't help the situation..... I so badly want to get up, tell them to buzz the door, (No escape without the receptionist buzzing you in or out. This joint's like a jewelry store in the ghetto!!)and tell them to "f' off on my way out the door. BUT!!! My Dr. referred me to this place and it's taken two weeks to even get an appointment. So any request by me for another specialist will only delay me from getting on with my life by another half month or so. So there I sit, and sit, and sit. FINALLY Mission accomplished I get my morphine prescription, (BTW heroin is synthetic morphine according to the nurse,. YEA!!) and get buzzed out. My 30 minute Dr.'s appointment took 3 HOURS 2 of which I was being held like a felon waiting to go the the slammer!!
"Whatever... I just want to feel better."