I don't normally go to the doctor unless I'm having a problem. Or a pregnancy :p Grant recently went to the doctor for the very first time in *11 years* (and that previous time was an ER visit for pneumonia following 8 years without a visit). We take our kids in for checkups every couple of years or as needed, which is often not at all (so just the 2 year checkup - although Elise was seeing a neurologist regularly for her first few years and Isaac has been to the gastro x a million). And pernicious anemia entails a LOT of visits...like daily shot visits for a week, and then weekly shot visits plus extra monthly labwork and 6 week checkups, all at the GP, plus specialists several times a year...forever! I was kinda hoping this "living at the doctor" thing I've been doing for the past year or so would come to an end soon...ah well.
I do agree with you overall, it could be worse. There are some terrifying and heart breaking stories on Pernicious Anemia forums, many people don't get diagnosed until they've lost the ability to walk and/or ended up critical in the hospital and a team is working on their case :/
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Date: 2014-01-07 10:56 pm (UTC)I don't normally go to the doctor unless I'm having a problem. Or a pregnancy :p Grant recently went to the doctor for the very first time in *11 years* (and that previous time was an ER visit for pneumonia following 8 years without a visit). We take our kids in for checkups every couple of years or as needed, which is often not at all (so just the 2 year checkup - although Elise was seeing a neurologist regularly for her first few years and Isaac has been to the gastro x a million). And pernicious anemia entails a LOT of visits...like daily shot visits for a week, and then weekly shot visits plus extra monthly labwork and 6 week checkups, all at the GP, plus specialists several times a year...forever! I was kinda hoping this "living at the doctor" thing I've been doing for the past year or so would come to an end soon...ah well.
I do agree with you overall, it could be worse. There are some terrifying and heart breaking stories on Pernicious Anemia forums, many people don't get diagnosed until they've lost the ability to walk and/or ended up critical in the hospital and a team is working on their case :/