About this blog
Disclaimer - Nothing on this blog is meant to serve as or substitute for medical advice from a licensed health care provider. If you are sick, call a doctor. If you are very sick, call 911 (U.S.) or go to the closest ER.
Content - Medical and health care. Patient-provider relations is the most common theme. I am not a health care provider. I have no medical training. I am a person writing from a patient perspective, occasionally calling on my personal experiences working as nursing support staff, being raised by nurses, or married to an ER residency program for 3 years.
This is an anonymous blog because I do discuss my personal medical information and experiences which include topics like diarrhea predominant IBS and recto-vaginal endometriosis.
I'd prefer to keep the blog anonymous. Anonymous means it doesn't have my name or personally identifiable information on it. If you think you know who I am from my writing, please keep it to yourself just out of respect and courtesy, if not ethics and principles.
My tone - It's a problem, I know. I've chastized for being "negative", "jaundiced", and "angry". E.g., I got flamed by a woman on a Lyme patient list when I was trying to lighten someone else up with sarcasm. I wrote back to a guy who'd been suffering from a hard to treat case of Lyme due to a delayed diagnosis and whose coworkers kept saying stuff like "How come you're not better yet?" and "You're still sick?" The poor guy was at his wit's end and sounded pretty down. My reply was not about angels and virtual hugs but it was genuinely empathetic. What got me flamed was that it included something like this: "Hey you should wait until one of them gets sick. Then invite yourself over and jump up and down on their bed singing 'people who need people' out of tune at the top of your lungs" I hadn't realized we were all supposed to be perfect martyrs, suffering with beatific grace. I will point out that although I say my tone is "a problem", I'm not necessarily saying it's MY problem. I claim it as my cultural leaning. If it isn't yours, consider this a diversity experience.
Making contact - Comments are moderated. Trolls will be rejected.
If you feel you'd like to get in touch with me, you can try: nilnocete at g(nospace)mail dot com.
Please know though that I'm not interested in hearing about how I can be helped by magnet therapy, vitamin C overdosing, aura balancing, crystals, scrubbing with peelings from the inner skin of a nut found only on the south eastern side of Fiji, or whatever it is I'm supposed to be doing to put my mind-body vibes in harmony with the great cosmic whatnot to guarantee perfect health and good bowel movements. My dissatisfaction with medicine and health care is not because I believe western modern medicine can't work well. I just think that the people practicing it sometimes end up practicing it or being limited in their practice of it such that it won't.
