Cold day in Georgetown
Dec. 4th, 2025 11:35![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bill_schubertIt's in the 40's today and wet and windy. Beaux and I went for a walk early on (Beaux ALWAYS wants to go on walks) but other than a later walk I'm not going to spend much time outside today. No pickleball today. Nothing else on the schedule. I'm doing some Prolific work and will likely knock out $50 or so today. I've been getting higher paying jobs recently and it has been much more profitable.
This is the duldrums between the Thanksgiving noise and the Christmas News noise. Then we'll get the quiet of the winter and spring. Looking forward to that.
We lost our electricity last night between 9:30 and 11:30. Didn't make too much difference to us. It was time for bed anyway. No indication from the electric company of reason but the area was fairly small and the epicenter was where they are doing a lot of work adding a commercial center across from our HEB. The last time we lost power was when they were building the HEB. I'm suspicious of both incidents. I suspect they have to shut off power to do something or other and it is easier to just 'lose' power than any of the alternatives. Just my thought. No harm done anyway.
Dana went to the doc yesterday to get an injection in her spine, an LESI L4/L5. She's gotten them in the past many times. They help with her rather severe sciatica. But this time the doc said that she could not get it if she was on Plavix. She said she was prescribed Plavix but was not taking it. Two docs and the nurse told her she should take it if prescribed. I'm kind of wishing I was there but maybe better that I wasn't. Yet another example of a doctor out of their lane. Dana was very confused and now had someone telling her something different from what we had figured out. She got the shot she needed and told me about it all afterward.
I decided to nail down the cardiologist and wrote a note asking for the basis for the Plavix prescription. No response yet. BUT I did discover that Plavix potentially interacts with two of her current meds AND specifically should not be taken with Aspirin which she takes. The Cardiologist did not, apparently, notice this. So my blood is on a slow boil and I will not respond well to anything other than a full retreat from the prescription at which time I will ask him to ammend her record removing the drug so we don't have to go through this again.
On the off hand he decides he will not budge I'm going to get a second opinion during which I will definitely be sitting in the room.
And why the hell doesn't their system flag the two meds and the aspirin problems?
I'm starting to get fed up with shoddy medicine and increasingly have an issue with the inability of medical systems to do the same thing I can do with ChatGPT. I was able to find the three interactions (all three have very specific and fairly serious hazards) in about a minute in the AI.
Having already had a discussion with the Scott and White patient relations department I'm just standing by.
She is not going to be taking Plavix unless and until I see a test or procedure that indicates she is in hazard from blood clots that merits serious interdiction to prevent.
Nothing more dangerous than a retiree who had time and a computer.
This is the duldrums between the Thanksgiving noise and the Christmas News noise. Then we'll get the quiet of the winter and spring. Looking forward to that.
We lost our electricity last night between 9:30 and 11:30. Didn't make too much difference to us. It was time for bed anyway. No indication from the electric company of reason but the area was fairly small and the epicenter was where they are doing a lot of work adding a commercial center across from our HEB. The last time we lost power was when they were building the HEB. I'm suspicious of both incidents. I suspect they have to shut off power to do something or other and it is easier to just 'lose' power than any of the alternatives. Just my thought. No harm done anyway.
Dana went to the doc yesterday to get an injection in her spine, an LESI L4/L5. She's gotten them in the past many times. They help with her rather severe sciatica. But this time the doc said that she could not get it if she was on Plavix. She said she was prescribed Plavix but was not taking it. Two docs and the nurse told her she should take it if prescribed. I'm kind of wishing I was there but maybe better that I wasn't. Yet another example of a doctor out of their lane. Dana was very confused and now had someone telling her something different from what we had figured out. She got the shot she needed and told me about it all afterward.
I decided to nail down the cardiologist and wrote a note asking for the basis for the Plavix prescription. No response yet. BUT I did discover that Plavix potentially interacts with two of her current meds AND specifically should not be taken with Aspirin which she takes. The Cardiologist did not, apparently, notice this. So my blood is on a slow boil and I will not respond well to anything other than a full retreat from the prescription at which time I will ask him to ammend her record removing the drug so we don't have to go through this again.
On the off hand he decides he will not budge I'm going to get a second opinion during which I will definitely be sitting in the room.
And why the hell doesn't their system flag the two meds and the aspirin problems?
I'm starting to get fed up with shoddy medicine and increasingly have an issue with the inability of medical systems to do the same thing I can do with ChatGPT. I was able to find the three interactions (all three have very specific and fairly serious hazards) in about a minute in the AI.
Having already had a discussion with the Scott and White patient relations department I'm just standing by.
She is not going to be taking Plavix unless and until I see a test or procedure that indicates she is in hazard from blood clots that merits serious interdiction to prevent.
Nothing more dangerous than a retiree who had time and a computer.
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Date: 2025-12-05 01:16 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-12-06 17:38 (UTC)I definitely see a medical system ass kicking coming down the road. I'm gearing up and girding my loins and all that shit.