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I saw Carmen on Thursday, and I told her what my gut has been doing; as part of that, I handed her my phone, open to the Simplenote file where I've been tracking when I use the imodium. She asked some questions as well as listening to and poking my abdomen, and Adrian asked something I'd forgotten, namely whether there's anything we can do in the short term.
Carmen sent me home with a kit for another stool sample, to check for possible C. diff, but she thinks this is more likely to be irritable bowel left over from having had the C diff infection. She also prescribed dicycomine, which tht is supposed to slow my bowels and get things back to normal, meaning I don't have an urgent need for a bathroom very often. Carmen said, if that medication works, I can reasonably go to Montreal.
She also thinks I should see a gastroenterologist, but it might take a while to get an appointment with one, so I'm glad there's something to do in the meantime.
I finally picked up that prescription about an hour ago, after much annoyance with and at CVS. When I didn't get the usual message that a prescription is ready, I got one saying it was "on hold." I called them, and talked to someone who didn't know why it was on hold, but said he'd fill it by yesterday afternoon.
Nope. Same "on hold" message, and no callback when I left a voicemail. This morning I called yet again, and talked to someone who said the problem might be that they didn't have enough in stock to fill my prescription. I agreed to a partial fill, and when he asked when I wanted it I said "as soon as possible." I went to the pharnacy, and they had filled it, the full 120 pills in this prescription. I'd been at the point of thinking that if they hadn't filled it by 2:00, I was going to walk in, and ask them to do it while I was there, so it wouldn't vanish into limbo again.
I picked the prescription on my way home from an anti-Musk, anti-all this crap demonstration outside a Tesla showroom, which I went to with Cattitude and Adrian. There were a few hundred people in the crowd, I think, some carrying signs with a variety of messages. One demonstrator had a large Ukrainian flag, with the bottom of the flagpole in a holder attached to a backpack.
Carmen sent me home with a kit for another stool sample, to check for possible C. diff, but she thinks this is more likely to be irritable bowel left over from having had the C diff infection. She also prescribed dicycomine, which tht is supposed to slow my bowels and get things back to normal, meaning I don't have an urgent need for a bathroom very often. Carmen said, if that medication works, I can reasonably go to Montreal.
She also thinks I should see a gastroenterologist, but it might take a while to get an appointment with one, so I'm glad there's something to do in the meantime.
I finally picked up that prescription about an hour ago, after much annoyance with and at CVS. When I didn't get the usual message that a prescription is ready, I got one saying it was "on hold." I called them, and talked to someone who didn't know why it was on hold, but said he'd fill it by yesterday afternoon.
Nope. Same "on hold" message, and no callback when I left a voicemail. This morning I called yet again, and talked to someone who said the problem might be that they didn't have enough in stock to fill my prescription. I agreed to a partial fill, and when he asked when I wanted it I said "as soon as possible." I went to the pharnacy, and they had filled it, the full 120 pills in this prescription. I'd been at the point of thinking that if they hadn't filled it by 2:00, I was going to walk in, and ask them to do it while I was there, so it wouldn't vanish into limbo again.
I picked the prescription on my way home from an anti-Musk, anti-all this crap demonstration outside a Tesla showroom, which I went to with Cattitude and Adrian. There were a few hundred people in the crowd, I think, some carrying signs with a variety of messages. One demonstrator had a large Ukrainian flag, with the bottom of the flagpole in a holder attached to a backpack.
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