My health insurance now requires me to name a primary care provider, and since mine had unfortunately quit practicing medicine under sad circumstances, I was in the market for a new one. Lazily, I picked a new practice in the same building as the urgent care center where I've taken J. twice (the building where we used to have both a lovely fabric store and a handy vacuum cleaner repair business, but they retired). This practice wanted me to have an introductory visit with their FNP, Katie S.
She was great! I love her! I told her everything about my body, and she checked out the trivial health complaints I do have (a permanent bump on my head, a loss of range of motion in my left shoulder). She even had a theory about why I seem to catch every virus that's going around but often get it only in a trivial but annoyingly lingering form. She thinks it could be that actually my immune system is working just fine, but as part of the process of fighting off the virus, it might get past the threshold for activating whatever it is in my mucosal membrane system that also has issues with allergens and fragrances/VOCs. It could thus be possible to improve my overall health if I find a helpful antihistamine.
On Monday I get the results of my blood tests - I haven't had any blood tests for years, so I'm pretty curious. I also volunteered for my first-ever flu shot, and it didn't even make my arm sore.
She was great! I love her! I told her everything about my body, and she checked out the trivial health complaints I do have (a permanent bump on my head, a loss of range of motion in my left shoulder). She even had a theory about why I seem to catch every virus that's going around but often get it only in a trivial but annoyingly lingering form. She thinks it could be that actually my immune system is working just fine, but as part of the process of fighting off the virus, it might get past the threshold for activating whatever it is in my mucosal membrane system that also has issues with allergens and fragrances/VOCs. It could thus be possible to improve my overall health if I find a helpful antihistamine.
On Monday I get the results of my blood tests - I haven't had any blood tests for years, so I'm pretty curious. I also volunteered for my first-ever flu shot, and it didn't even make my arm sore.