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Didn't do full girl drag for the doctor's appointment, but I did wear eyeshadow (Shiro Cosmetics, Ever In Your Favor, which looked pretty good on but isn't a color I love). I need to order some more, it's oddly confidence-building just to have a little glimmer there. And it helps that they all have cool fannish names.
As usual, I got to my pdoc's office ludicrously early. When I went to check in, I was told that my doctor wasn't there. They were switching me to someone else. "He's a telemed doctor", the receptionist said, without explanation.
What it meant was, I talked to him over the internet on a computer in a back office with an assistant of some sort monitoring the tech aspect. Which wasn't especially offputting for me, but having it sprung on me with out warning was a little jarring. For someone who wasn't at home with computers I think it would have been very upsetting. Not that I wasn't upset - an abrupt change of doctors is a big shock and having to try and re-explain everything when I thought I'd be dealing with someone familiar. He put me back on the lithium, said I should try to get more sun, and wants to see me again in two weeks.
I am so, so tired. It's a struggle to get care and I am in so far over my head I can't see the surface anymore. I can't do this alone and there just... isn't anyone. You guys, my net-friends, you're the only support system I have.
As usual, I got to my pdoc's office ludicrously early. When I went to check in, I was told that my doctor wasn't there. They were switching me to someone else. "He's a telemed doctor", the receptionist said, without explanation.
What it meant was, I talked to him over the internet on a computer in a back office with an assistant of some sort monitoring the tech aspect. Which wasn't especially offputting for me, but having it sprung on me with out warning was a little jarring. For someone who wasn't at home with computers I think it would have been very upsetting. Not that I wasn't upset - an abrupt change of doctors is a big shock and having to try and re-explain everything when I thought I'd be dealing with someone familiar. He put me back on the lithium, said I should try to get more sun, and wants to see me again in two weeks.
I am so, so tired. It's a struggle to get care and I am in so far over my head I can't see the surface anymore. I can't do this alone and there just... isn't anyone. You guys, my net-friends, you're the only support system I have.
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But yeah. Having it sprung on me without warning was massively uncool.
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I told my caseworker about it when I saw him today. He said that he'd heard that they would be switching some patients to that but he hadn't known when they would start. I told him he should warn people of the possibility because they hadn't prepared me at all and it was kind of distressing. Haven't written up an entry about my caseworker visit but ugh going out and dealing with people three days in a row was exhausting as fuck.