Hi everyone:-).

Well, I hav'nt posted here in a few days so here goes. After being kicked out of the clinic I had been going to for the last 7 years, I was really fretting over what the new clinic I was recently assigned to under my medicaid plan was going to be like. Was the doctor going to be a kind, grandfatherly/motherly type who listened attentively to my problems and was willing to work with me or was he/she going to be one of those "ok, ya got five minutes with me and yer outta here!" types. I had fretted about this for about a month.

Well, I went in yesterday and it was a breath of fresh air!. Unlike that "medicaid mill" I had been going to where they made you wait 5-6 hours only to get 5 minutes with some rude, impatient doctor (and even ruder nurses), I found the staff at this new place to be much more friendly, civil and understanding. Whats more, I got in in under a 1/2 hour and the doctor turned out to be an elderly colored woman who I think was one of the nicest people I have ever met.

She told me that she was a born-again Christian, went over my whole history with me, listened to me patiently, joked around and had a very good sense of humor and a friendly personality and then proceeded to give me all kinds of lab tests, free samples of pills and a HUGE supply of Oxazepam (a benzo). The latter was terribly important to me because some docs won't prescribe them and this one gave me a bunch of them which I need for my anxiety and panic attacks!. I have never taken this particular benzo until today and it makes me very sleepy but it works.

Anyway, so I have also been spending a lot of time on my new blog, catching up on a number of things around the house and tommorow I have to drive a long distance to get my stitches out and have a new cast made. Then I go in for 6 weeks of physical therapy (severed tendon on my finger).

So I scarfed down two baked subs, almost a half gallon of chocolate ice-cream, two sodas, a banana and some shortbread. Then I took a happy pill and I'm about ready to go to bed. Anyway, that's about it for now...Zzzzzzz...