Posted by KB on March 19, 2002, at 8:25:07
In reply to Re: reluctant to call PDOC, posted by mair on March 19, 2002, at 7:23:03
Thanks everybody for your suggestions. Unfortunately, I can't talk to the pharmacist any more than I can call the Pdoc - in fact, I usually get someone else to pick up my prescriptions for me so I don't have to face him (feel embarassed about taking so many meds - I have Lupus so it's a lot).
Mair, I do use the answering machine gambit a lot but his machine specifically says not to leave med or refill requests on it, so that puts me in a quandary about what to say when I leave the message "Hi, I can't say why I'm calling because your machine doesn't allow it?" If only he had email . . .
I'm the same way about MDs - I spend a lot of time agonizing about whether something is important enough to call about - the result is that I either get better or wind up in the ER.
My mother was the same way - wouldn't go to the grocery store b/c she was too embarassed to be seen using food stamps - oddly enough, that doesn't bother me, maybe because I did it so often as a kid. I can't set fot in a baakery, though - seems SO self-indulgent.
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