3/7/2024 0 Comments Another brick in the mall igg![]() I guess I would call him dogmatic without the ego. After about 10 minutes, he said I could record him, thank god, because I didn’t remember to ask and I have no memory of anything he said in those first few minutes. He did not stop talking for an hour and 15 minutes. Chia and, when he came in, he was off like a rocket. We waited probably about another 15 minutes for Dr. She said, “Well, it doesn’t matter because he only sees patients with your condition.” Sigh. I noticed she wrote on my file that I was there about “chronic fatigue” and I mentioned that it was actually ME ~ or even write “CFS”. We (my mother and I) waited about 20 minutes and then went in and had the normal nurse stuff done. I’m a big fan of Stephen King and liked that the office was in an area named after the possessed protagonist of The Shining. His office is in a nondescript brick building in a sort of strip mall in Torrance, CA. My appointment was at 4:15pm on a Friday, so I was worried about rush hour and LA craziness, but Google maps was accurate and it only took us half an hour to get there. My mother holding the massive binder of test results that we carted down to California and then never opened. It bolstered my confidence and reinforced how resilient I am - we are. Chia didn’t really give me anything, it was purely the challenge. So, I had a lot of different fuels feeding the engine, if you know what I mean and, without even one, I might not have made the trip. It was also about testing a different location, spending time with my mother and giving my husband a break. I wanted to test my boundaries, I wanted to see if I could leave these four walls and find out just how bad the payback would be. That doesn’t mean I regret the trip, it just means, if someone else in my position asked my advice, I would say, “Save your money and your energy.” The journey, for me, became the challenge early on. I don’t really feel like I learned anything new or found access to treatments I couldn’t have tried without him. ![]() I can save you some time and tell you straight away that it was not worth the trip. I can’t believe this took me so long to write, but I’ve been plugging away a little bit, day by day. Okay, okay, stop begging, I’ll tell you about my appointment with Dr.
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