{"id":58,"date":"2003-11-12T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-13T03:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/?p="},"modified":"2003-11-12T20:43:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-13T03:43:00","slug":"what-are-you-doing-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"What are you doing here?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been waiting two weeks for my doctor&#8217;s appointment. It was a &#8220;new patient&#8221; visit since my old doctor had left. (She left the practice about a year ago to spend more time with her kids.) So I had to figure out what to tell my doctor about my medical condition in the past year and I made a list.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/doclist.png\"><\/p>\n<p>I just feel like I&#8217;m falling apart lately, but these are the big points I wanted to ask him about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>my left ear sounds squishy when I chew<\/li>\n<li>I have an odd rash on my left arm that made my arm scaly<\/li>\n<li>I have odd sharp pains when I&#8217;m running<\/li>\n<li>My floaters in my left eye are getting worse<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, the floaters are really something I need to talk to an ophthalmologist about and the sharp pains are chronic and transient and seemed to annoy the doctor. In fact, he asked me, <b>&#8220;What are you doing here?&#8221;<\/b> And the squishy ear and rash? Basically he said if I wait the problems will resolve themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, he spent a lot of the time telling me that he couldn&#8217;t believe someone with an Electrical Engineering degree from MIT couldn&#8217;t get into Medical School.<\/p>\n<p>Well, pal, you&#8217;re looking at him.<\/p>\n<p>What a letdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been waiting two weeks for my doctor&#8217;s appointment. It was a &#8220;new patient&#8221; visit since my old doctor had left. (She left the practice about a year ago to spend more time with her kids.) So I had to figure out what to tell my doctor about my medical condition in the past year and I made a list. I just feel like I&#8217;m falling apart lately, but these are the big points I wanted to ask him about: my left ear sounds squishy when I chew I have an odd rash on my left arm that made my arm scaly I have odd sharp pains when I&#8217;m running &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=58\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What are you doing here?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}