So I finally managed to get in for the test
on my arms and hands, for the carpal tunnel. Hopefully when the bill comes it won’t cause me a grabber.
The news? ‘Oh. Anyone can see that the structure of your hand and wrist, you’re gonna have carpal tunnel. You need surgery. Maybe cortizone injections would help but probably not for long”
So the hand surgeon just sent me to have an expensive test he knew I didn’t need to cover his ass, to make sure he’d get paid without any difficulty
The Medical profession is killing me, I’m telling you. I cannnot wait until it’s just like the BMV!
ETA: The girl who did the zap portion of the test kept saying “does that not hurt? I have it turned halfway up. Usually I’m scraping people off the ceiling by now!” Me:”No, it’s actually kind of nice. Maybe I could just have this machine?” Then it turned into calling the other people into the room “See? I’ve never had the machine all the way to 11 before. His hand makes the shape of abraham lincolns head when I do this!” at one point three women were in the room watching her use the machine to make me dance like captain scarlet.
I got the same treatment for my Brain MRI.
“This is very expensive and probably won’t show anything, but we have to”.
I shouldn’t have mentioned loss of vision. The automatic CYA diagnosis is stroke. I was thinking eye damage. (I know the difference).
At least your date with Reddy Kilowatt wasn’t too painful.
When I had mine the tech kept apologizing. “I’m so sorry to make you cry like that.” And prior to that I had a root canal without anesthesia (NOT my idea) and an endoscope also without anesthesia (STILL not my idea). I didn’t die and neither did the medical personnel pulling the levers, so to speak. So I got a pretty good pain tolerance, I think. But this did me, game, set, and match.
Nerve conductance tests would make most people tell where Anne Frank was hiding or give the address of the manger where the Baby Jesus lay … unless you have an impingement. :(
Findings of my neurologist: “Inconclusive.”
I found that I would deck the next son of a sea captain to make me hurt like that again.
Jenny
“You have a talent for causing things pain.”
Had the same test done. I think it got to be a game to see if they could make me grimace. It just didn’t hurt.
Then they hooked some kind of pad setup on my lower back and told me to lay down and relax. Someone had turned that torture device all the way up and left it. When the tech hit the on switch I came uncorked. And I peed more than a little.
I was told watching a fat man skitter around like a spider on a frying pan while screaming like a girl who had seen said spider was quite a thing to behold. Amusing enough the tech was pretty slow turning it off. She said it was because I startled her, I think the bitch found it entertaining.
Roger
Had this kind of test done about 15 years ago. I don’t recall it hurting until the 3″ long needle went into the fleshy pad where my thumb meets my palm. That sucked – hard. I can handle needles, but making a fist with that probe in my hand… I did worry about it coming out my elbow! At least I walked away with a confirmed diagnosis, and not an “inconclusive”.
Fuckim, screw with my left hand, my right is gonna grab some balls.
When I had my nuts by a cheapo quack I lost a week of work. I went back with my K-Bar to return the favor.
Sumbich skated.