So I went to the clinic, as promised.
It’s really hard to take care of your health when you don’t have a family doctor (my area is suffering from a shortage of them right now). First, you have to be willing to sit in a clinic or the emergancy room for at least a couple of hours. Most often I’m not, meaning that I leave a lot of health concerns unchecked. And once you get yourself there, it’s hard to sit and talk with a doctor who doesn’t know you, answering questions that your family doctor would just know the answers to. I once had tests done at a clinic by a doctor, came back a few days later and was given my results by an entirely different doctor. It’s so impersonal, and when it comes to your health and well being you want to be dealt with by someone who knows you and you are comfortable with.
Anyway, I got up and went… finally! They think it could be a stomach ulcer which I had showed signs of developing last summer (but the emergancy room doctor sent me home having tested for everything but, saying “Well, I’m not sure what it is. If it gets any worse, come back.” Of course I didn’t) So I may have been walking around with uclers for the last year. They did blood work, and I have an ultrasound scheduled for next week.
