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Eriol

Eriol

Dave said:
But I have a new one that is causing me all sorts of issues. It's growing in the corner of my eye. It constantly feels like I've got something in my eye so I'm rubbing it in my sleep and I can't wear my contacts any longer. Also, eye gunk treats it like some sort of ocular barrier reef. Normally a dermatologist can just snip skin tags off but I think in this case I might have to have something a bit more involved and I do and don't want to do it. I haven't gone to the doctor yet, but I've asked a couple of physician friends and they say they don't think a dermatologist can do it and that I might have to see someone a bit more involved, although they couldn't tell me who.
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Optometrist at the least, but if you already have a doctor/patient relationship with one, go right to an Ophthalmologist, aka Eye Surgeon. I was kind of lucky growing up that my "regular" optometrist was also an Ophthalmologist, so if there was literally anything wrong in the eye region he was my guy. Otherwise, optometrist first is probably the safest bet. You either go to a GP who will refer to the final specialist, or go to the optometrist who may be able to take care of it themselves, or they'll refer you to the final person. IMO the GP has a much lower percent chance of being the final person, whereas the Optometrist has a higher chance.

Good luck man.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Might need to go the long route with referrals though, depending on how insurance wants to play it. I've seen instances where if you go to a GP and get referred to a specialist, insurance covers it, whereas if you go straight to the specialist on your own, they don't.
 
Eriol

Eriol

GasBandit said:
Might need to go the long route with referrals though, depending on how insurance wants to play it. I've seen instances where if you go to a GP and get referred to a specialist, insurance covers it, whereas if you go straight to the specialist on your own, they don't.
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That's where the "existing relationship" thing starts though. If you've been there before, often you can "just go" if there's a problem of any kind. But YMMV of course.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Dave said:
Age sometimes gives you things that are pretty benign but still indicative of your body just giving up.
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Tell me about it. I’m used to being able to recover from any injury/illness in days instead of weeks. Nothing Wolverine-ish, just a significantly above-average ability to bounce back. I used to legitimately have 20/10 vision, even able to clearly read Victor David Brenner’s initials below Lincoln’s neck on an American penny with my naked eye. But over the last 5 years, I’ve had colds start to last 3 days or even a week at a time, my eyes have trouble focusing on anything closer than 15in/38cm, and that arm injury I’ve ranted about before is still nagging me almost 3 years later. Oh, and I’m carrying an extra 20lb/9kg that I seem to have picked up somewhere.

Now I know that no small part of this is due to lack of activity. I know that regular activity (not even formal exercise, just being less sedentary) would go a long ways towards improving my vim and vigor, and that I could fully cure my arm with but a month or two of dedicated exercise therapy, but I’m used to not needing to have to do that stuff in order to recover, y’know? Also there’s no amount of exercise that’s gonna restore my vision, nor restore my thinning hair back to that point where even my mother was jealous of it.

And yes. It bites.

—Patrick
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

GasBandit said:
Might need to go the long route with referrals though, depending on how insurance wants to play it. I've seen instances where if you go to a GP and get referred to a specialist, insurance covers it, whereas if you go straight to the specialist on your own, they don't.
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Pretty much always the case here, for example.

@Dave, just assume I made some jokes about your age showing in that you now have to remember different constellations because the stars of your youth have burned up.
That aside, sorry to hear it...sadly age gets all of us. I can tell tomorrow's weather by my wrists and knees, and I'm not even 35! My body's a temple, but it's more or less a ruin.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Bubble181 said:
I can tell tomorrow's weather by my wrists and knees, and I'm not even 35!
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Every single morning since my trip to go tubing on the guadalupe river back in June, in which I fell down and hurt my knees, my knees have started making all kinds of snapping and popping noises the first time I try to use them as I get out of bed. They crack like my knuckles do, and much like my knuckles, they don't "feel right" until after they've popped.

Getting old sucks.
 
Gared

Gared

I've bitched and moaned for years about my back, knuckles, and the elbow I broke a decade ago always locking up in cold/damp weather - but now I'm starting to actually feel the effects of arthritis in one of my toes and in one of my thumbs, and it really sucks.
 
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Anonymous

Anonymous

I'm gonna have to have an uncomfortable conversation with my supervisor about an employee that I like as a person, but who is demonstrating some disturbing behaviors in the workplace. I can't get around this...its literally my job to report it.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

Look customer, I get that you don't like the prices I'm suggesting here. But please don't go on long, time-wasting rants about company policies that, frankly, I'm not paid enough to give a shit. I'm so low on the totem pole, I don't know anything about company motivations.

I think this job is slowly killing me. There are so many goddamn petty or unnecessarily argumentative customers.

On the bright side, I have roughly a 1 in 12 chance of winning a 4K TV with a current contest.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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The weather's getting cool enough to where I could leave the back sliding glass door open enough for the cat to come and go as he pleases...

... but the radio stations just got notified that two confirmed cases of west nile have been found in hospitals here, and it's been raining an awful lot so there's standing water just about everywhere in the neighborhood... :/ Sooo yeah, not doin that.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

ThatNickGuy said:
I think this job is slowly killing me.
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I think this is universal with any “have to deal with the public” kind of job. You eventually start thinking of “the public” as nothing more than livestock, milling about and pooping and carrying on about which patch of mud is the softest, or where to get the most sunlight, or how much more hay that other cow got, etc.
GasBandit said:
it's been raining an awful lot so there's standing water just about everywhere
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You mean it doesn’t just turn to steam immediately on contact with the ground?

—Patrick
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

jwhouk said:
No, that's here. The water dries up so fast it disintegrates.
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My aunt lives in NM. She tells of the “ghost rain” where clouds come and it rains, but the air is so dry that the raindrops evaporate completely and vanish before they even hit the ground.

—Patrick
 
Eriol

Eriol

PatrThom said:
I think this is universal with any “have to deal with the public” kind of job. You eventually start thinking of “the public” as nothing more than livestock, milling about and pooping and carrying on about which patch of mud is the softest, or where to get the most sunlight, or how much more hay that other cow got, etc.
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I had the opposite experience in my two "long-duration" public-facing jobs, at a grocery store, and at a gas station (high school and university days, respectively). They showed me that actually most people are GREAT people, but that the few assholes MORE than make up for it with just how horrific they are.

In contrast, working internal support desk at a former job taught me that the morons and assholes are over-represented in those who use the support desk.


So in summary, customer-facing in my experience teaches that most people are fine, but assholes make up for their rarity with degree of terribleness, but SUPPORT desk teaches you that the assholes are over-represented there.
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

Eriol said:
I had the opposite experience in my two "long-duration" public-facing jobs, at a grocery store, and at a gas station (high school and university days, respectively). They showed me that actually most people are GREAT people, but that the few assholes MORE than make up for it with just how horrific they are.

In contrast, working internal support desk at a former job taught me that the morons and assholes are over-represented in those who use the support desk.


So in summary, customer-facing in my experience teaches that most people are fine, but assholes make up for their rarity with degree of terribleness, but SUPPORT desk teaches you that the assholes are over-represented there.
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Everybody needs to go to the grocery store. Not everyone feels somebody else is there to fix their problems for them in their way, their time etc.
 
Dei

Dei

I had a tiny tiny cavity in my lone wisdom tooth and the dentist made me get Novocaine just because it was so far back. But it hurt anyways because lol, and now I have to be numb for a cavity that literally took 3 minutes to deal with.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Dei said:
I had a tiny tiny cavity in my lone wisdom tooth and the dentist made me get Novocaine just because it was so far back. But it hurt anyways because lol, and now I have to be numb for a cavity that literally took 3 minutes to deal with.
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Ah yes, the Redhead Anesthesia Lament. It's the price you pay for the crimson tresses.
 
grub

grub

GasBandit said:
Ah yes, the Redhead Anesthesia Lament. It's the price you pay for the crimson tresses.
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I have blond hair and always get double freezing because the standard dose doesn't work for me. My pain threshold is pretty high otherwise just freezing doesn't work.
 
Dei

Dei

I had some pretty nasty cavities filled as a teenager without Novocaine because I was more scared of needles than pain. The dentist I have now won't do it unless it's really tiny and in a good spot. So I don't care if I still feel it, because I still go numb and I really don't want more Novocaine in my system.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Come to think of it, the last couple times I had cavities filled, they had to re-novocaine me up in the middle because it started to wear off... I wonder if it's just getting more dilute or if the standard dosages are lower now than they used to be.
 
Tinwhistler

Tinwhistler

GasBandit said:
Ah yes, the Redhead Anesthesia Lament. It's the price you pay for the crimson tresses.
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Not just red-heads. I'm highly resistant to anesthesia. Dentists always hurt. I've never been successfully twilighted. Ask me how fun a gastroscopy is when you're awake. heh. I woke up at least 3 times that I can remember during my strabismus surgery. With my cataract surgery, your eyes and lids are supposed to be numb and immobile for 6 hours. I started being able to blink before she finished the 15 minute procedure.

If I ever need open heart surgery, that shit's gonna be fun.
 
Celt Z

Celt Z

And how! :confused:

I had the almost identical situation as @Dei 's a week and 1/2 ago, except it wasn't a wisdom tooth, just one of the back ones. Sorry, Dei! I should have warned you it was coming! Twin sense and all that.
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

It's been so long since I've been a student that I've forgotten how to be a student.

I have to follow a timetable and go to different classes at different times? You mean I don't just show up at the same place every day at 9 in the morning, and stay there the rest of the work day? Huh.

I have to read all this stuff, and actually retain the information, instead of having the ability to Google stuff at all times? Huh.

I have to actually talk to other people, like professors and academic staff and group members and stuff? I can't just stare at a computer screen for twelve hours a day, like I would at my job? Huh.
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

I knew going in that this time of year might be the hardest for me in my adaptation to AZ.

I was born in the fall, I love fall and the changing of colors, and the changing temperatures and whatnot.

You don't get any of those changes here in AZ. At least not until late next month, I'm told.

SIGH.
 
Terrik

Terrik

bhamv3 said:
It's been so long since I've been a student that I've forgotten how to be a student.

I have to follow a timetable and go to different classes at different times? You mean I don't just show up at the same place every day at 9 in the morning, and stay there the rest of the work day? Huh.

I have to read all this stuff, and actually retain the information, instead of having the ability to Google stuff at all times? Huh.

I have to actually talk to other people, like professors and academic staff and group members and stuff? I can't just stare at a computer screen for twelve hours a day, like I would at my job? Huh.
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This is essentially my last two months in a nutshell
 
Gared

Gared

Dangit, I had today all planned out. Get up in the morning, have some breakfast, clean the kitchen, make a batch of sugar cookies to use up the buttercream from my botched macarons from the other day, start working on my biscotti recipe. But noooooooooo, it's supposed to get up to the 90s again today, and that's just too hot to run the oven all day.
 
Gared

Gared

jwhouk said:
90's. How quaint.

If it was in the 90's here, the weather forecasters would say it was "cooling down."
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You chose to move to Arizona. Bragged about how wonderful it was going to be, all nice and warm... I live on the coast. It's not supposed to be getting above the low 70s this time of year.

Anyway, boredom won out and I made biscuits for dinner anyway.
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

Hey, I had my whine already. Do I miss fall? Yes. Am I getting tired of 100+ every day for most of the last five months? Yes. Will I care in about a month? Hopefully, no, when it's actually reasonable during the day.
 
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