- Annmarie Throckmorton, M.A.
Wired
Each year my pain is worse, all sorts of pain, with assorted causes, it keeps getting worse. I am also losing function, which is probably to be expected with the years that I am carrying, but I am not ready for it. So as a 2018 New Year's Resolution to try to ameliorate my pains, I asked my primary care physician if something could be done for my injured shoulders (from when my father abruptly decided to sit while I was braced supporting his hands as he was pulling himself out of his wheelchair and he yanked my arms against their sockets.) My PCP referred me to a specialist, who prescribed a first step of a five day course of Medrol (Methylprednisolone) 4 MG PAK TAB, which is a corticosteroid. The stuff makes me jittery. I feel wired.
It still dismays and disgusts me that doctors are so greedy that they refuse to diagnosis if there is any chance they can refer the patient to a specialist so that all of them can get a cut of my pain. Not so very long ago primary care physicians were simply called doctors and they were competent in all the usual fields of medicine.
Wired is uncomfortable.
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Caption: Wired
by Annmarie Throckmorton 2018