Agreed.

since we're analyzing my quip.....

All I was doing was trying to be a calming voice. I was not trying to say that she should ignore it. I assumed that as a good parent, monstah would, of course, follow up with further inspections and detections.

I DO, however think that the profession of 'Doctor' is like any other.

it's too late...you've got me started, and I have a couple minutes...

I have met some stupid fucking doctors. just like i have met geniuses that fix my furnace. You have to consider the source.... when a 25-27 year old doctor tells you that she has seen kids die from the mumps...you are talking to a liar that thinks she's smarter than you because of her degree. When a still green physician that is trained to identify heart murmurs from specific aural cues heard with a stethoscope even has an inkling that she or he heard one.....they are going to advise you to have it looked into.

The demi god status that doctors expect and often receive makes me want to strike them. and when I say 'strike them' I mean to physically punch them in the stomach. And then again, some have gotten over themselves, and are actually very nice and helpful sorts that do plenty of good work for humanity.

/rant

you could always kick them in the cunt - just sayin

Cunt Punt!!!

I hears the LJ. you're probably all tired of me telling all y'all how smart i am, but I was at uni fer a while and i met the doctors of the future. 80% nitwits. At least. but this is my problem: I am an intelligent, logical, rational person, very grounded.... unless it's my baby and then y'all can die if there's a 0.000001% chance that your death will save my baby from whatever horrors are out there....

Biology makes us irrational. Good thing, too. Or none of us would have made it out of diapers.

Word. It still surprises me sometimes how utterly nuckingfuts I can get when my babies are involved.

So, I visited my new doc today... He tells me I have a heart murmur. :right:
I will try to get it checked out sometime in December.

Hm. gotta agree with Dana, Jinx and the LJ here. Esp. the part about docs being nitwits. My recent cancer treatment gives me the ok to say with 90% accuracy that most docs ARE nitwits. It's just like the LJ man says.

good luck monster and Pie. My best vibes.

Oh Pie - sorry to hear that.
May it work out as well for you as it did for Hebe. Keep us updated.

I was diagnosed with a heart murmur at age two, that got steadily worse over the years until I had to have open heart surgery at age nine. I had a subaortic stenosis that had to be cleared out. If anyone wants basic details on the TWO methods they used to clear out the stenosis, you're more than welcome to ask.

Bottom line, I will always have a residual murmur and will never be able to run further than a quarter mile. No enlisting in the armed forces, no strenuous sports, so on and so forth. So yes, heart murmurs can be quite serious. However, as we've all noticed already, thanks to Hebe, they're OFTEN nothing at all. :)

:doit: ?

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:lol:

That just means bottom only.

No Sheldon, that's not what I meant.:headshake

lol Sex is fully, two-thumbs-up approved... because I don't get into bedroom olympics. I'm too easy to bring for that...