What kind of a patient are you?

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When I'm sick, I tend to get crabby really easily, and I just don't want to do anything. I don't usually whine, but I do like to be babied and taken care of.

Piper

-- Piper (piperdane@yahoo.com), December 23, 1999

Answers

I'usually a fairy easy patient. If I'm sick (like a cold) I attempt to ignore and keep going because I have so much to do but then when I finally have to admit that I am sick I will take a day and sleep it off. That is my answer to being sick -- cold, flu, bad headache -- take some aspirin and go to bed, hide under the covers... I don't need to be taken care of, but I'm usually taking care of my family so if I'm in bed that stuff falls on my wife and she is not really at home in the kitchen and like that.

-- Jim (jimsjournal@yahoo.com), January 18, 2000.

not too bad really, over the years i have developed a fairly high pain threshold, due to an orthopedic displacement which has grown worse as time goes by. so, with that comes the arthritis in my old age. when i am sick i usually go to bed, eat when my wife feeds me trying to eat at least something, and drink lots of fluids. when i had cat bite fever, all i asked for was all the covers in the house and to be left alone. if i know there is something needing medical attention, i go into the clinic, report my symptoms, listen to what they tell me about the present condition and also listen very closely to their instructions, have their prescriptions filled and take them as prescribed. it has been many years since i have taken over the counter medication, as there is usually a conflict of medication between prescribed and over the counter medications. i have a PDR and a couple of other medication books. it is hard to believe the ingredients of some of the over the counter meds and what the side effects can be. one book gives contraindications, and tells the side effects of all. in short i could have said i am a patient patient and a fairly well behaved one.

-- doug (ionoi@webtv.net), January 21, 2000.

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