Cockeyed hypochondriac
Ignorance is a gift not many understand how to use. for me, it's been detrimental. The mild hypochondriac in me raises it's head whenever ignorance starts belting it's stuff out of me.
continuing my bad run from where i had left, into May, things seemed a never ending tale of fear psychosis, whispering at the back of my mind : "What's next ?". In the first week of May i saw myself working for a new project, which i am happy to announce, i am enjoying. That's the good part.
I had been to my family doctor earlier in the month, slightly concerned about my headache. she gave me some crap which didn't seem to work, and advised me to consult a dentist. The densist, who i then had suspected to be a quack going by her attire, advised me to check out an ENT specialist as she suspected a mild throat infection. My drama did'nt end there, neither did my headache. The ENT guy looked a bit bemused, ordered a ear test for me and fished me out of the hospital with a bag full of medicines in my hand.
things started looking a bit fishy, and my mind got busy with its own 'analysis' of my condition.
even after 3 days of taking the medicines didnt show up any signs of improvement, i thought it was time to see my good old doctor again. amidst my plight, there'd been a meningitis scare going around in the newspapers, though no cases had been reported in the state as yet. The "Times of India" which gets a bit corny on such issues went overboard with headlines like "Symptoms to look out for", "ways to avoid", and the usual euphoria bullshit. Not that it's a credible newspaper to believe every word it prints, it's a little more than a tabloid though, but it sure gave me the heebie-jeebies.
The newspaper read "symptoms : mild headache, fever, rashes, pain in the eye, loss of memory". I seemed to have satisfied the first condition very well, and it seemed like my eyes were paining too, and i had forgotten since when, so i had satisfied the "loss of memory" condition too. I seemed to have even forgotten the names of some famous actresses :D, which was weird. that was enough to psyche me out and minutes later i was checking out the net frantically looking for some kind of information which would tell me "Hey dumbo, get your stinky head and dunk it in water, you seem to be dehydrated of logic"
The next day i found myself visiting the doctor for a second opinion :). after exchanging few words, the doc decided to put me on a course of antibiotics which would cure my throat infection. Still apprehensive, i decided to check out the details of the medicine. My doc has this dirty habit of not telling me what was wrong, thus allowing my mind to further its morbid designs on me. another two days passed, and now i started getting edgy, more so after reading that the medicine would cause mild breathing issues, which was enough for me to concoct one up in the next two days..back to square one i thought, and ran to the doctor, this time very sure that someone out there had very bad designs for me.
I had seen the doctor 3 times in 7 days, and she was tired of collecting her fees from me, and i was pleasantly surprised when she didnt accept her fee. Conscience got the better of her, apparently :). for some who already didnt know that i was visitng a doctor, i could have easily passed off as my doctor's personal stalker. In all this flurry of activities, i forgot completely, to notice that my headache was actually decreasing.
Even After meeting the doctor for the nth time, and her insistence that the medicine was doing it's job, i could still not resist myself from putting forth my opinion... i slowly sat upright and in a slight murmer told her "u know there is this scare about meningitis going around"....by the look on the doc's face, i knew i had over stepped the limits by a yard this time, and made a hasty exit amidst my doc's ranting "If anything, I would know it better than you" !!!......and asked me to not even think about changing the medication she had prescribed for me !. Absurd as it may sound, She was growing increasingly worried that i might actually take my own medication :D :D.
A week later i must say i had troubled her enough without reason :). My throat is slightly sour, and my headache's gone, but most of all, my mind is free :D. That much for my ignorance.
Half-knowledge is something most of us can live without :D, my doc couldnt agree more with me , ha ha.
continuing my bad run from where i had left, into May, things seemed a never ending tale of fear psychosis, whispering at the back of my mind : "What's next ?". In the first week of May i saw myself working for a new project, which i am happy to announce, i am enjoying. That's the good part.
I had been to my family doctor earlier in the month, slightly concerned about my headache. she gave me some crap which didn't seem to work, and advised me to consult a dentist. The densist, who i then had suspected to be a quack going by her attire, advised me to check out an ENT specialist as she suspected a mild throat infection. My drama did'nt end there, neither did my headache. The ENT guy looked a bit bemused, ordered a ear test for me and fished me out of the hospital with a bag full of medicines in my hand.
things started looking a bit fishy, and my mind got busy with its own 'analysis' of my condition.
even after 3 days of taking the medicines didnt show up any signs of improvement, i thought it was time to see my good old doctor again. amidst my plight, there'd been a meningitis scare going around in the newspapers, though no cases had been reported in the state as yet. The "Times of India" which gets a bit corny on such issues went overboard with headlines like "Symptoms to look out for", "ways to avoid", and the usual euphoria bullshit. Not that it's a credible newspaper to believe every word it prints, it's a little more than a tabloid though, but it sure gave me the heebie-jeebies.
The newspaper read "symptoms : mild headache, fever, rashes, pain in the eye, loss of memory". I seemed to have satisfied the first condition very well, and it seemed like my eyes were paining too, and i had forgotten since when, so i had satisfied the "loss of memory" condition too. I seemed to have even forgotten the names of some famous actresses :D, which was weird. that was enough to psyche me out and minutes later i was checking out the net frantically looking for some kind of information which would tell me "Hey dumbo, get your stinky head and dunk it in water, you seem to be dehydrated of logic"
The next day i found myself visiting the doctor for a second opinion :). after exchanging few words, the doc decided to put me on a course of antibiotics which would cure my throat infection. Still apprehensive, i decided to check out the details of the medicine. My doc has this dirty habit of not telling me what was wrong, thus allowing my mind to further its morbid designs on me. another two days passed, and now i started getting edgy, more so after reading that the medicine would cause mild breathing issues, which was enough for me to concoct one up in the next two days..back to square one i thought, and ran to the doctor, this time very sure that someone out there had very bad designs for me.
I had seen the doctor 3 times in 7 days, and she was tired of collecting her fees from me, and i was pleasantly surprised when she didnt accept her fee. Conscience got the better of her, apparently :). for some who already didnt know that i was visitng a doctor, i could have easily passed off as my doctor's personal stalker. In all this flurry of activities, i forgot completely, to notice that my headache was actually decreasing.
Even After meeting the doctor for the nth time, and her insistence that the medicine was doing it's job, i could still not resist myself from putting forth my opinion... i slowly sat upright and in a slight murmer told her "u know there is this scare about meningitis going around"....by the look on the doc's face, i knew i had over stepped the limits by a yard this time, and made a hasty exit amidst my doc's ranting "If anything, I would know it better than you" !!!......and asked me to not even think about changing the medication she had prescribed for me !. Absurd as it may sound, She was growing increasingly worried that i might actually take my own medication :D :D.
A week later i must say i had troubled her enough without reason :). My throat is slightly sour, and my headache's gone, but most of all, my mind is free :D. That much for my ignorance.
Half-knowledge is something most of us can live without :D, my doc couldnt agree more with me , ha ha.
posted by Jagadish at 12:19 AM
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