The Rise of the Kens and Karens
I'm seeing it in retail. From my end food service. They come in for an item you don't have that day. Instead of talking about with the department they go to the manager. Manager gets involved. Rookie deli clerk makes their sandwich slightly off as per their instructions they go to the manager. You're short-staffed that day everyone called out that's not my problem. Angry shoppers. I'm a quiet shopper. I don't make issues. I don't get the workers in trouble. Mild Z.
The blogosphere. Everyone just calm down and let's talk about barn owls.
Went in for cardiology appointment. Early morning thunderstorm, first rain in two months. She says how you doing? I says I got edema in the lower legs and ankles see? She says, wow, are you dizzy? No. That is a sign of heart failure she observes with a resigned look. "Yep, it shows up as fluid in the lungs. She slaps the stethoscope on and we do the 'breathe in, breath out'. Which is hard when you are dying. She says Nope no fluid - no heart failure, I said thank you. But we're going to remove amlopidine and up benzommonium chloride and trycholoroazide and double your metoprolol. You still have metoprolol? Yeah, you had me cut them all in half. Well I'm doubling your dose. Should I glue them back together? BB, you are an interesting gentleman..
ReplyDeleteCome back and see me on Sept 11 at 8:30AM. Having survived death in the office, I come home to put it on the calendar and there is my dentist appontment at Step 11 as 8:30 AM. Only two appointment in the month, both at exactly the same time.
Very odd morning. I should have been thinking about barn owls.
Metoprolol the BP drug. Line down the middle for splitting in half. I give them to my Mom if her reading isn't too low.
ReplyDeleteDidn't like the two bills I got from Urgent Care. That was when I thought I had a UTI but passed a kidney stone a few days later. Upped my credit card bill. They wanted me to see a urologist at the time. Glad I said no. Don't they know about the Yonkers Mayor and property tax? I ain't Rockefeller's cousin. Health care in America.
Don't know about your medical bill situation but my attitude now is whatever I can ride out I'll ride out. Bad left arm, kidney stones, the trots, one tooth almost totally disappeared on me (when did this happen where did it go?). Live with stuff unless it's life threatening. I can't afford it.
ReplyDeleteSo many years ago I might have acted a little angry say at a hospital. Allow me to explain. Dad was watching the ballgame, had a beer or two and kept getting up to use the bathroom and said he couldn't urinate so we took him to the hospital. Lady at the booth kept asking questions about insurance. This was taking awhile. Meanwhile people in the waiting room were waiting to be seen as well but they were watching Seinfeld. They didn't seem in agony but my Dad was standing there in increasing discomfort so at that point I wasn't exactly civil. Only time in my life my Mom didn't care I dropped an f-bomb. Look can somebody just help him and we'll deal with the paperwork later? A doctor came down right away.
ReplyDeleteBack when Nixon was president, My wife had to drive me to the ER with what we figured was a kidney stone. Same deal, stand there for a half hour going over the insurance, payment options, next of kind crap. Kidney stones hurt. Bad. But ER said they would have to check before giving any pain killer. Got hauled to the basement on a gurney. Some Dr. from India with an accent shot me full of Iodine.
ReplyDeleteWhile I writhed there awaiting the scan, they pushed a little kid in
next to me on his own gurney. Wanting to comfort me, he looked over and said, "What did you break, mister?" Got shot full of demerol a popular opiod at the time, and they sent me home with a sieve with a handle. Next day, plink, and the culprit looked like a tiny aboriginal arrowhead. Microbiologist from the cosmetics lab called me in the hospital and said "You should have called Roto-Rooter - cheaper and faster". Up until a couple years ago, I took 2 pills a day. Now I'm up to 7. Used to swallow them with coffee. Been thinking C Bros might
work better?
They need more of a triage system. I know they have some kind of minimal triage. If you come in and there's a nail in your head and you're bleeding right this way sir. If it bleeds it leads. I also think extreme discomfort should be a factor in moving you to the front of the line. People with colds before you watching Seinfeld. They need more of a system. I shouldn't have to yell.
ReplyDeleteWhenever I go to the pharmacy to get my mother's meds they ask me her birthday. The transaction doesn't proceed without me stating her birthday like what is this a quiz show?
ReplyDeleteThe older pharmacist before them before he sold the place I'd go in for my BP pills and half the time the guy at the counter would say 10 minutes he's getting a bagel. I liked him though. He never asked me anyone's birthday.
Mrs. and I are both taking Eloquis. Might as well sent a lot of cash to the landfill. What a racket.
ReplyDeleteSome of the drug commercials they can suck people in. I don't have eczema but if I did I'd want Dupixent. I might be a guest at a BBQ on a yacht.
ReplyDeleteHad a Dr. awhile back. Asked if people saw drug ads and asked for them. He said all the time, and ignored them.
ReplyDeleteYeah like you visit your doctor and you tell him right off the bat you want Skyrizi.
ReplyDeleteEarlier this week was in to see the cardiologist. I said I had swollen ankles, she looked and announced "You have heart failure". High heart pulse rate and edema." I said I felt fine until you mentioned that. She checked my lungs with a stethoscope and proclaimed that I did NOT have heart failure. Removed my amlodipine and added a diruretic and three days later the ankles are almost back to normal.
ReplyDeleteDidn't even need Ozempic or Viagra...and she never mentioned my
C Bros. addiction.
Food worker union. Here all the grocery store workers got a raise in their pensions and better healthcare. What's up with the no tax on tips deal? Might that lower what people pay for tipping? Doesn't affect me
ReplyDeletetips I give, but don't get, ya know?
Harris and Trump both support no taxes on tips. People actually report tips?
ReplyDeleteYour little story about the cardiologist made me laugh.
ReplyDeleteBack during the pandemic they had to check our temperatures upon reporting to work. Infrared thermometer. They were looking for higher readings of course but nobody cared if someone's temperature was too low. Guy's temp was like 78 NEXT. With a reading like that he should be dead.
Lucky Nurse Nancy wasn't there yet. "This man is orthostatic". This is a serious condition." OK, we'll put him in the veggie section, nice and cool there." Midwest farm supper here tonight - corn on the cob, tomatoes and cucumbers. Holy John Deere!
ReplyDeleteYou got a big grill out there or something?
ReplyDeleteNo grille. It's too hot outside. We got neighbors keep bringing tomatoes, cucumbers, squash. Last evening out on the street with no sidewalks, two little girls walked by, each with a sheep on a leash.
ReplyDeleteWife thought they were practicing for the county fair. I figured it was Little Bo Peep and her sister Little Miss Muffet ya know. Small town excitement - yawn -
No Peyton Place stuff going on?
ReplyDeleteMaybe upstate in Athol. Rhymes with you know what.
ReplyDeleteGot a sign for a democrat running in the district. Out here, that is akin to flying the flag upside down. Up the street, there are yellow flags saying 'Don't tread on me' I heard Yonkers Street Dept, puts up signs that say "Mow me now, or else'?
ReplyDeleteHow come they get along up in Canada?
ReplyDeleteDo folks in Idaho know what Kens and Karens are or maybe they need a short course in pop culture.
ReplyDeleteNope - we are clueless. What's the deal?
ReplyDeleteYou'd have to google the Karen meme. Multiple meanings. Ken is the male version. You now have a homework assignment.
ReplyDeleteSounds complicated. My first girl friend was Karen, 3rd Grade. We were in a Minuet contest. My take, we would rather live next to Tim Walz than Karen and Ken. Does their daughter Karla make them sort of the KKK? We elders try to keep up.
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