I Love My PA

[legalmoose]

Physician’s Assistant, in this case, though I like the other, more permanently attached PA as well. I think today was the first time in a couple of years that I’ve been to see my doc outside of my annual physical. The PA was sympathetic, and said they’d been seeing a lot of crud like this in the past couple of weeks (which is consistent with what I’ve been hearing/seeing from friends as well). So I got some prescriptions to help with various bits of the mess, and a (painful!) shot to help things along before some of the pills kick in tomorrow.

He was also shocked to hear I’d been taking a decongestant/expectorant combo to help with my allergies for the past several years, and suggested I might want to go see an ENT after this is all cleared up to see if there’s some other cause of my recurrent nasal congestion. Not a bad idea, and since I have an ENT thanks to the vertigo a few years back, I think I’ll make an appointment once this cold is done and gone.

Originally published at Of Moose And Men

Comments

[ex-stormwin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I totally first read that title as the other type of PA :P

[jss]

"Public address"? <innocent look>

[tychoish.livejournal.com]

yeah, I nearly spit out tea on my work computer when I read that on twitter the first time.

[brokn2pieces.livejournal.com]

i thought this was going to be juicy for about 1.5 seconds

[cooperpup.livejournal.com]

It got you too, huh?

Other than the memories, this cold has been the longest lasting thing about my visit to DC this year. :)