The itch is a bitch!!!!!!

On my way to the allergist. Hope she has some answers for me. I now scratch as much as I breathe. I've come to the conclusion that doctors and many of the people who work in the medical profession don't know any more than the average person. I won't go into detail what the allergist said, but here is the bottom line. She wants me to lather myself with petroleum jelly, neck to feet twice a day. Oh yea! That should stop the itch. I'm thinking of draining the hot tub and filling it with 300 gals. of Vaseline so I can just soak in it all day long.

After the allergist my next stop was to another medical fiasco, the radiology dept. at Mather Hospital. It seems the chest x-ray I had taken last week needed to be compared to my last one which was Jan. 2001, only a mere 8 yrs. Because it was so long ago, I was told it needed to be retrieved from storage. Ok so that was last friday and it's ready today. The very nice lady says I have to sign the x-ray out because they need to be returned. She then proceeds to tell me they usually destroy them after seven yrs. I say you want me to return them so you can destroy them? She says yeah. It's been 8 yrs. and there not destroyed yet. She wants me to return them. Hope she doesn't hold her breath. Go figure!

Susan then calls me during my travels to tell me now they want me to get a CT Scan because the x-ray didn't show them enough. I have to go to another doctors office to pick up the prescription, boy I'm having fun now. I manage to accomplish that task without any problems. I then call for an appointment for the CT Scan and am told I now need an authorization number. No problem for someone like me who has so much experience going to different medical institutions, been to three already today and it's still light out. I can't make the appt. without the number. I call for the number and am asked, "Did you make your appt. yet?" Are you beginning to see what I mean about them not knowing more than you or me? The girl who gets the number has gone home and I leave her a voicemail, sure love those. Susan is a bit concerned and would like to get this all resovled before we leave for Fla. next week. Boy she lives in a fantasy world.

I'm leaving for Orlando next Wed. with or without the authorization number, the CT Scan being performed, returning the x-ray or waiting for the Vaseline guy to come fill the hot tub!