t a l l a p e

Working from home today, as I have a couple of other days this week, because I really don’t want to have to take the T anywhere (like, for example, to work). I seem to have some kind of something that’s making me have to pee about every 20 or 30 minutes, and making me feel like I really need to a lot more often than that. This is not a comfortable thing, especially when one is, say, on a train in a tunnel.

Thanks to an appointment with my GP’s office a little over a week ago, I know there’s no infection or anything that blood and urine cultures can turn up. This is basically good news.

The bad news is that Boston seems to be disgustingly short of urologists. Tried to get an appointment at basically every med center that takes my insurance, and the first available wasn’t until the 16th. Which means that I’m in holding pattern, basically uncomfortable with the idea of taking public transportation anywhere, until next Wednesday.

For those of you future medical people who read this; please, please for the love of god do something about the crappy way that medicine is practiced in this country. I like the quality of care, don’t get me wrong. But the idea that “urgent care” for a problem that effectively traps someone in their house would take two weeks to schedule is a little ridiculous.

Meanwhile, a toast to the little things in life. Like being able to pee on something like a reasonable schedule, and not living your life with the constant urge to find a bathroom. It seems to minor, and so easy to take for granted…