[Posted to Xanga 10/19/10]
So I went to the cardiologist and he said my EKG was normal and I appear to be okay. Said my metoprolol could be doubled if necessary.
I'm lucky other people are looking out for me, because if I'd had to do this appointment by myself I would have failed pretty hard. First of all I don't have my own ride, but my friend Amy was nice enough to give me one. Second of all I forgot my government ID and my insurance card. And my Holter monitor results from the Henderson clinic. They had to look up my insurance stuff on the website and use my school ID. I'm lucky they had my Holter results already somehow.
My own failures aside, this is what I expected to happen, and I'm glad it did. They're still not going to put me on ADHD meds, I'm betting. Sigh.
Oh, and it appears that we finally have better wifi in the cafeteria! Wjoo! But still not in the auditorium.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
Guess what?
[Posted to Xanga 10/11/10]
More meds.
I went to the clinic today. The doctor was like "You're only seventeen? And your parents live in Atlanta?" And I was like "I'm a college junior." And he was like "Well, I'm not used to having these conversations with seventeen-year-olds, but I'm used to having them with college juniors, so..."
Anyway, what he told me was that my heart rate is too high. Despite the fact that my psych nurse said the mirtazapine could still be affecting me, the doctor decided I needed to go to a cardiologist in Jackson and promptly put me on metoprolol. A beta-blocker. We'll see what that does.
More meds.
I went to the clinic today. The doctor was like "You're only seventeen? And your parents live in Atlanta?" And I was like "I'm a college junior." And he was like "Well, I'm not used to having these conversations with seventeen-year-olds, but I'm used to having them with college juniors, so..."
Anyway, what he told me was that my heart rate is too high. Despite the fact that my psych nurse said the mirtazapine could still be affecting me, the doctor decided I needed to go to a cardiologist in Jackson and promptly put me on metoprolol. A beta-blocker. We'll see what that does.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Another one of Freed-Hardeman's oddities...
[Posted to Xanga 10-7-10]
...is room inspection. Every week on Tuesday at 2:00 PM our dorm mom, Mama Ashley, checks our rooms to ensure that they're clean. If you didn't take out the trash, even if it is confined neatly in a trash can--you fail. If you didn't make your bed--you fail. Et cetera. One of the other dorm moms once told me that she didn't know how regular schools managed to keep proper hygiene in their dorms if they never did room inspection.
Anyway, if you fail, you get this lovely slip of paper (you can click on it to make it more legible):
Three fails and you're out. (I intentionally took a fail this time because I wasn't feeling well. I left Mama Ashley a note to tell her I'd take a fail; that's why she didn't check any of the boxes.) At least Mama Ashley was nice and left me candy anyway (she leaves everybody a little piece of candy and a note when she does room inspection). I'm inclined to say she's a bit more lenient than one would think from all those checkboxes.
...is room inspection. Every week on Tuesday at 2:00 PM our dorm mom, Mama Ashley, checks our rooms to ensure that they're clean. If you didn't take out the trash, even if it is confined neatly in a trash can--you fail. If you didn't make your bed--you fail. Et cetera. One of the other dorm moms once told me that she didn't know how regular schools managed to keep proper hygiene in their dorms if they never did room inspection.
Anyway, if you fail, you get this lovely slip of paper (you can click on it to make it more legible):
Three fails and you're out. (I intentionally took a fail this time because I wasn't feeling well. I left Mama Ashley a note to tell her I'd take a fail; that's why she didn't check any of the boxes.) At least Mama Ashley was nice and left me candy anyway (she leaves everybody a little piece of candy and a note when she does room inspection). I'm inclined to say she's a bit more lenient than one would think from all those checkboxes.
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