For Those Who Feel The Need To Share All of Their Banal Details Part 4- Page 170

[picturetaker9211]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 3:41pm

I really don't feel like starting my hw.
Blahhhhhhh...

Hope everybody who is feeling sick feels better!

[Fantabulous428]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 4:19pm

My head is throbbing.

I f*cked up the third part of my Art History midterm, and I'm trying to find out if my grade is somewhat salvageable.

I can't stop crying.

[xM3L24x]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 5:00pm

I was the only one in my math class today who got the homework problem right. I was so proud of myself.

"Ah, yes. "No" stands for "do you have the Company CD?""
LOL, moms are great.

[xoxRogue]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 5:20pm

Using makeup, stage blood, and puddy, I now have two 6-day old bruises (one on my forehead and the other on my chin), a scrape on my cheek, and a cut on my upper arm (which my teacher said was an A++ cut). It's awesome.

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 5:37pm

The PA (physician's assistant) came in to talk to me for my follow up appointment at the drs. She asked me the normal questions and I answered accordingly. I told her I wasn't eating normally and haven't really been hungry..etc...
I have lost a bit of weight over a month or so...

Then, as usual, she said the doctor will be right in.

5 minutes later the doctor AND the PA came in and I was being asked all these questions that sure seemed as though they were pretty sure I had an eating disorder. I am the furthest person who'd have an eating disorder but I sure would have rather them come out and ask me than kinda beat around the bush. This doctor really is fantastic and we joke all the time but this kinda made me a bit angry.

Meh- it's kinda settled for now for the most part.

I'm tired.

[xM3L24x]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 6:35pm

They're just doing their job. I hope you feel better!

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 6:39pm

I dunno; it isn't the doctor's job to be your friend and make jokes with you if they think something -- anything -- is wrong; I'm not saying the assumption that you have an eating disorder is correct, but eating disorder or not (and you certainly would know if you had one), not eating normally is cause for worry, and it's the doctor's job to figure out what's wrong, cover all bases, and help you fix it. IF someone did have an eating disorder, no, they would not come right out and say it; they'd beat around the bush. You can't have expected your doctor just to magically KNOW that you wouldn't have one, and not to take all precautions to rule it out, so it seems a little bit ridiculous to be insulted that they considered it a possibility. It's his job. If they need to ask leading questions to figure out why you haven't been eating, they're just doing their job. Loss of appetite could have any one of a million different causes, and a lot of times it's self-perpetuating and very difficult to kick. I mean, don't you want to get better? If those are the questions they have to ask in order to rule out some sort of perhaps obvious possibility, then... so be it, in my opinion. Whenever I go to health services here, the first thing they ask if I could possibly be pregnant, because it's like the default assumption and the big thing to rule out; I couldn't possibly be, by anyone's standards of logic, but I put up with it anyway, because it's their job.

Updated On: 10/18/06 at 06:39 PM

[actor]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 6:42pm

I'm listening to "Bride's Lament" from the Drowsy Chaperone and it's making me laugh out loud.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 7:02pm

Every time I go to the health center, I get asked about 3 different times if I could be pregnant. That's never the case, but based on the symptoms, it *might* be possible, so they have to cover all bases. I'd rather have to answer "No" 3 times than have them not ask when someone actually could be pregnant and screw up her diagnosis.

I need to print out my absentee ballot application.

I'm so pissed at my grandmother.

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 7:09pm

I didn't go to school today, yay! It was a half day, and most of the students had to take PSATs, and the seniors were supposed to go and listen to speakers...and yeah. No.

Yeah, same here. I stayed home because I didn't think it was worht my time. Neither did the people who actually sat through the 20-minute speech.

[xoxRogue]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 7:12pm

Okay, I had less classes than other seniors (only part of one, so I went for homeroom, left, came back for the class, then left again), but I have a question:

Why skip such an easy day of school?! It boggles my mind.

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 7:14pm

I got to sleep until 11.

Posted: 10/18/06 at 7:17pm

There are so many interesting classes I want to take next semester. Unfortunately, looking at potential classes for next semester is just making me angry that I'm stuck in mainly boring, required classes this semester.

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 7:18pm

I only had one 30 minute class today. I would have then had to sit in the school library for 3/12 more hours until marching band rehearsal. It wasn't worth it. (I have a really short schedule, only 5 classes. One of those 5 was included in our half-day todya.)

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 7:20pm

I actually wouldn't have had any classes. Today wasn't counted as a regular day. (Like...Tuesday was a day 2, and Thursday will be a day 3.) The seniors were supposed to report directly to the auditorium, and I just...wanted to sleep.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 7:32pm

My brother's an idiot.

[Fantabulous428]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 7:37pm

I'm so bored that I'm editing my resume.

[xoxRogue]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 7:50pm

My brother (well, half-brother, but he's still my brother.) comes back for leave (from Afghanistan) by the end of this month! I'm able to not be worried for the time that he's here!

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 8:03pm

My friend is arguing with me that I have no reason to say that I want to see other shows besides Jersey Boys (which I've alreayd seen), because I've seen 11 Broadway shows and that's a lot.

Oy.

[Atrias]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 8:49pm

I've had hiccups all day long. Everyone thinks it's funny but me. It hurts like hell!

[aspiringactress]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 8:54pm

I think it's time I hop on this thread. I'm writing an essay on "Their Eyes Were Watching God" and I'm now 4 pages over the page limit. It's a really weird essay. Meh. Also today at school we had a day called Mountain Day where we go to Bear Mountain and I made a friendship bracelet.

[Holliwoodblonde]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 9:00pm

I think the America's Next Top Model thread got deleted...

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 9:02pm

With my past symptoms, I've been asked numerous amounts of times if I am pregnant. All of which have been no.
I appreciate they ask that and not beat around the bush. They could ask:

"When did you have sex last?" "Last period?" (which they sometimes do)
But they just come out and ask if you are pregnant. I wish the doctor and PA asked me if I had an eating disorder and not beat around the bush.

I had xrays done 3 weeks ago. They must have asked me if I was pregnant about 5 in like 2 hours. And, I didn't mind because I understand how dangerous xrays can be when one is pregnant.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 9:05pm

I just bumped the Top Model thread, HolliwoodBlonde.

SweetQ, what you have to understand about the nature of eating disorders is that a lot of times, people go into denial about it, to themselves and to others, which is why saying "do you have an eating disorder," point-blank, isn't exactly the best way to get to an answer. Imagine if someone did have one, and the doctor just said "do you have an eating disorder?" but the patient lied about it and said no and the doctor just up and believed him or her. Not good, right?

[Holliwoodblonde]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 9:08pm

Thanks Emcee, I searched and it didn't come up!

SweetQ- It sucks, but it is incredibly easy to lie about eating disorders and thus, doctors tend to try to rule every other possibility out beforehand in order to come up with a concrete diagnosis.