Rant #3,871: Today's the Day

Today's the day I go under the knife and have that procedure done on my scalp.

I don't know why this procedure was put off for so long in the first place--I thought that any cancer should be gotten rid of immediately--but I have to put my faith in my doctor--

And lately, I have had mixed results doing that with other doctors, so I guess I have to take a wait and see attitude on this--

And simply assume that they know what they are doing.

I don't like to assume things--you know the saying, so I won't repeat it here--but I guess I don't have much of a choice.

Let's get this thing done and out of here, and then I have my detached retina to take care of, and I will be like new--

To a certain extent.

I have some other physical problems where I put my full, 1,000-percent trust in my doctor(s), and it simply did not work out, or at least hasn't worked out for nearly a year and a half at this juncture.

But this is a different doctor, treating a totally different malady, so maybe this one knows what they are doing and will rid me of this for good.

I hate to be so negative, but I have had an up-and-down relationship with my doctors over the years, and it culminated with my original urologist, has moved on to my current urologist--the latter of which I am most disappointed with, since he was highly recommended--and I guess it has made me paranoid with my doctors.

I do have a great GP, and I just got pretty much a clean bill of health from him earlier this week, as all the tests they did on me came out well.

And I did have a great surgeon, whose mastery of his craft allowed me to walk again after two major surgeries on my leg in the course of a month.

So as you can see, it has been very up and down with myself and my doctors, so I am hoping that today goes well, and I can add this doctor onto my list of those who did what they said they were going to do, and did it well.

My agita with doctors stretches back years.

You might remember that I was the patient of a doctor who was caught red-handed giving out drugs illegally to underage teens, and he was locked up for a while, never to be heard from again.

I was also the patient of another doctor who was jilted by his fellow doctor partner in their practice, where the partner evidently stole money from the practice, and this practice went out of business.

When I tried to get my medical records from each of these doctors that I was a patient of, I could not get these records for one reason or another, or could not get them without paying for it, which I refused to do.

The jailed doctor, I was told by the attorney general's office, was incarcerated, in jail, but still held his medical license in New York State, which makes absolutely no sense to me or to anyone--it should have been taken away while he was in jail.

Anyway, being that he still had his medical license, he still "owned" my records, and there was nothing I could do to get them--

And much later, I was told that they were thrown into a dumpster, and I could sift through the dumpster if I really wanted those records.

No way was I going to do that.

Then the other doctor, who lost his practice because of he evil deeds of his partner, would not give me my records, even though it was advertised that he would.

You had to go through his wife to get them. I contacted her three times via regular mail, as I was told to do, and I never received anything from her.

Nothing.

So you can see why my trust of doctors is at a very low level, and hasn't been lifted up an iota by recent actions of some of my doctors.

But today, I am praying to God that everything goes OK, that I can fully put my trust into a doctor that knows what they are doing.

I have other stories to tell about doctors and my family--one eye doctor could not get the cataracts fully out of my father's eyes and my father left the office with one literally hanging out of his eye until it could be fully removed by another doctor--and there have been some other instances where I have to wonder how these doctors got their licenses to practice--as when I was going through a root canal with a dentist, the power went out, and I was sitting there with all these appliances hanging out of my mouth and without a clue about what was happening since the dentist decided to coffee-klatch with other dentists while all of this was going on and until power was restored 45 minutes or so later--but I won't go into all of that right now with you.

Just let's say that I hope for the best, because I deserve nothing but the best--

I have been through too much to think any other way.

So the blog will be shut down for the next few days, as on Monday, I have that detached retina appointment ... if the weather holds up.

We are supposed to have a major snowstorm this coming Sunday into Monday, so the appointment might have to be postponed.

If everything goes well in both instances, I will be back in the saddle pretty quickly, and even if it all goes well, I might need a little time to recuperate and heal.

So have a great weekend, and I hopefully will speak to you again next week.

Keep me in your thoughts and prayers.

I think I am going to need it.