Today I went for my second gastroscopie and all I can say is that it wasn’t as good an experience as the first one. Everything seemed to be following the same routine as the first time, I went in, they took my blood pressure, laid me down and gave me the drugs. Then I was [...]
Actually, no… don’t! A week from today I have my 2nd appointment for a Gastroscopy, not fun. It goes a little something like this… I just had it done on the 18th, and you’d think once would be enough but please… this is me we’re taking about. It goes without saying that my body will [...]
Well the blood work came back and the only thing that showed up was that my glucose was high. I phoned the doctor and was surprised when All In Your Head Doc’s wife answered. She was the ‘nice’ one (if you use a really wonky scale of what is nice, I mean). Here’s the conversation: [...]
Ok, so as I mentioned in my post about my latest visit to the Doc the one thing he did agree to do was to send me to get x-rays of my foot. I’d stepped on one of the dogs toys months ago and my foot has been bothering me since. After squeezing around my [...]
At least that’s what my doctor said the other day when in the process of telling me why he won’t help me. Nice. One common theme among expats here in NL is their dislike and distrust of Dutch doctors. I’ve always sort of been on the fence because I’ve never had a truly horrendous experience [...]
If I were to make a list of my least favorite places to be here in the Netherlands, it would be here. The waiting room at our local huisartsenpost (kind of like outpatients, where you go outside of office hours, only … different). I took this photo with my mobile while sitting there being miserable [...]
I have no voice. If I try to talk it comes out as a painful whisper, or if I really try hard, a croak. My throat is so sore, I am sucking back Halls (which I’m so glad I brought back from Canada with me!) and Vicks Anti-Flu lozenges like nobodies business. I even wake [...]
Buying Immune System! Does anyone have one for sale? The dizziness is almost totally gone now, finally. The doc told me that my bloodwork came back ok but that there was levels of something or other that lead him to think I have a virus, which was causing the vertigo. I was all, cool… give [...]
Finally got one of my docs to tell me my blood type.. I’m not sure why they never wanted to before but today on the phone my gyno told me that I’m officially O Negative, which I don’t think is a bad blood type to be at all! The test came back and apparently everything [...]
It’s random update day. I’ve decided to have these every so often so that I can get out loads of little things that I can’t be arsed writing entire blogs about. My horoscope for today was interesting considering all the things going on lately with my school: You should be doing something about your position [...]
Whoever says to think of a “Happy Place” when you’re feeling crap must be a fucking idiot. I tried that yesterday, which was an upsetting and frustrating day, and I just got more upset because I’m not in the happy place! I’ve been in the “Bad Place” mentally for the last few weeks, I’m not [...]
Missed school today because I had to go to the doctor. Won’t bother getting into why but it’s nothing that serious. My regular doctor was on vacation and there was some other lady doctor filling in. She was really nice and her english was great. We spoke about 90% english and 10% dutch and she [...]
Yesterday we went to see the mortgage people again to see about buying this place we are living in. It still seems a bit strange for me to pay an amount that could get a large house with a swimming pool back home, to buy a 2 bedroom condo/apartment here. This is one of those [...]
Fearless Fourteen
by Janet Evanovich
