I'm having an exciting day!

[ultranos]

I dragged myself out of bed to make a 9:30AM appointment with the allergist at Med. (The appointment I was reminded of yesterday morning by a phone call at 8:30AM. I'd be proud of myself for being that coherent after waking up, but I was already slightly awake due to the jackhammers and chainsaws.) I'm now really sad that today was this particular doctor's last day because he was pretty awesome. He gave me a prescription and then went over some various other things I could do for my seasonal allergies. Then the following happened:

Doctor: So, they gave me an abbreviated schedule, and I'm not supposed to do skin tests today. *looks at computer* Do you have time?
Me: Yeah.
Doctor: ...okay, let's do this.

So he just did the test. Also, since I admitted to getting an itchy mouth when I eat raw carrots, and we found a correlating pollen allergy, Med is now requiring me to carry an epi-pen until the labwork comes back confirming I won't die from eating a raw carrot. (The doctor was trying very hard NOT to roll his eyes at this, in the "yeah, its stupid, but I have to do this" way.)

This is vaguely hilarious.

Comments

[abyssinia]

I'm just going to repeat here my insistence that you NOT STAB YOURSELF IN THE HAND BECAUSE YOU CAN'T RESIST FIDDLING WITH IT.

*ahem*

Enjoy your pen of doom!

[ultranos]

I'm going to repeat that I'M SCARED OF IT. Stabbing myself in the hand risks NECROSIS.

PEN OF DOOOOM!

[holdouttrout]

Ack! I really hope you don't die from eating a carrot! *grins*