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03/31/2009 More Fun With the Medical MafiaI had hoped to get the face mask exchanged yesterday but I had a hard time getting hold of the girl with whom I had to make “an appointment”.She finally called me back and this all too self important “respiratory therapist” informed me in her best valley girl rendition that if I didn’t make an appointment and have the mask properly fitted it would void the warranty and other manifest doom. So I couldn’t just go in and simply swap the masks —— I have to have it “properly fitted”. I’m not sure how they think me sitting upright breathing through a mask while wide awake is any way to “properly fit” something you use laying down on a pillow and trying to sleep. Ultimately it will be up to me to figure the darn thing out anyway. But there you have the density of dealing with the modern Medical Mafia. So I struggled through another night of no sleep to satisfy the whim of somebody else who continues to loudly profess it is “for my own good”. Go figure. I also had my appointment with the all important pulmonologist yesterday and it turned out to be the monumental waste of time I thought it would be. I was there for just over an hour and at least half of that time was used to fill out useless forms and answer repetitive and stupid questions. In the end they told me absolutely nothing I didn’t already know and told me to come back in 3 months. I didn’t argue with them about anything —— but I’m already pretty sure I will have something better to do in three months and forever after that. Now that I have the infernal breathing machine I don’t need them again until they threaten to cancel my prescription to extort another “examination” or “consultation”. Added 04/01/09 |