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VA: Return From the Dead

Mar 7th, 2008

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13 Responses to “VA: Return From the Dead”

1. on 08 Mar 2008 at 2:46 am1nOt again

   Another resurrection… please! Say it ain’t so.

       --3
2. on 08 Mar 2008 at 2:49 am2Meg

   I agree. I don’t get my flu shots, either. I stopped getting them when they kept crying year after year that there was a shortage and only children and elderly could get them, or whatever. I can get through cold and flu season without getting too sick, so why bother getting one and depriving someone who needs it?

   You’re right about doctors, too. They are rude, always late and don’t even listen to us! I was so sick once I couldn’t even sit up, and the doctor made me wait forever. When he finally saw me he insisted on a pregnancy test even though I swore I wasn’t and said I’d sign a waiver just to get my meds and go. He insisted on making me wait around another 90 minutes or so for a pregnancy test to prove what I’d already told him. He’s just lucky I didn’t have an uzi on me because I was upset enough to use it. Asshole.

   If there are any good doctors left, beats me where to find them. most just want money from us and kickbacks from the pharmaceutical companies. They don’t care about making people better.

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3. on 08 Mar 2008 at 2:53 am3nOt again

   No christ. No second coming. No end times. I’m serious.

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4. on 08 Mar 2008 at 3:27 am4Rurouni Idoru

   I’m entirely unsure if V ever reads these comments, but I’d merely like to say that I could not have read this article at a better time. I’m in the middle of some painful emotional crap right now, and it didn’t work when I tried telling myself it would be okay soon. But that whole, “You can’t appreciate spring without winter” section really helped.

   Thanks.

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5. on 08 Mar 2008 at 3:30 am5Winter vs. Spring

   You can’t appreciate spring unless you’ve experienced a real winter.

   ~No Christ~

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6. on 08 Mar 2008 at 4:07 am6niccicola

   Ugh. Just about everyone has gotten that sickness at some time or another, and if you haven’t, you will AT LEAST once. I just got over round 2. I’m hoping it doesn’t come back.

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7. on 08 Mar 2008 at 4:11 am7fu

   I don’t plan on AT LEAST once nicotina…

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8. on 08 Mar 2008 at 12:13 pm8Rah!

   The flu vaccine is a life saver for those with asthma, heart or kidney disease, suppressed immune systems and other chronic conditions.

   It doesn’t prevent the flu, but it does stop the flu from developing into bronchitis or pneumonia and other such nasties.

   If you’re usually fit and healthy it is unnecessary to be vaccinated.

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9. on 08 Mar 2008 at 1:57 pm9A

   If your doctor is that painful to see, then he’s not your doctor - just someone you keep going to see because you’re too lazy to go find one that helps you. I can say that because I was that person for several years. Kept going to the same M.D. because I had most of my life. The office staff was rude, I ended up spending the better part of an hour at the office because of bad office management, and the office was just inconveniently located. I finally left after one particularly loathsome encounter with the office staff and never went back.

   After I left, I looked up a doctor in my insurance network that was convenient to where I work and live. I figured if I had to go to the doctor, I might as well go to one that didn’t require me to drive out of my way. I REALLY lucked out. The office staff is pleasant, I usually never wait more than 5 minutes in the waiting room and 5 minutes in the examination room, and my doctor LISTENS to me - a lot more than the last one anyway. I think this doctor listens more because he’s not an M.D., but a D.O. (doctor of osteopathy). D.O.s are trained to listen first because their whole premise is to treat the actual cause of the symptoms, not just the symptoms themselves. Sounds kind of basic, I know, but many of us don’t know there are different types of general practitioners and most M.D.s just treat the symptoms - when it doesn’t work, you end up going back and they just try something else to alleviate the symptoms.

   I’ve come to find out that D.O.s are the types of doctors that usually have labs in their offices and therefore can have you tested right on the spot if you need tests. I’ve also found that some of my doctor’s diagnoses seem odd compared to my symptoms, but they usually turn out to be right. This is because D.O.s are trained to look at the whole body, not just the part that hurts.

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10. on 09 Mar 2008 at 2:32 pm10Sun Spot Baby

    A comment on the flu vaccine. The flu vaccine that was administered this year did not work on the strain of flu that is going around right now. So much for protection…

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11. on 10 Mar 2008 at 7:50 pm11anon

    Ugh - V has gone so off the rails - boring/ignorant rants.
    Can you photoshop some mommy blogger kids again, so I can still believe in you. By the way - where’s the photo of you???

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12. on 10 Mar 2008 at 7:54 pm12Matthew

    Since she obviously does read our comments here, why doesn’t she just allow us to comment on her own blog in the first place?

    I mean, I understand her FAQ about not wanting to read our comments, a lot of the time I skip other people’s, (same reason I don’t listen to talk radio, they let the public on, and the public is Dumb with a capital D,) but since she seems to be reading them anyways, that kind of doesn’t apply…

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13. on 10 Mar 2008 at 11:18 pm13Jeff

    Whoever runs the ViolentAcres blog used to comment under ‘yuvu’.. not sure what name they use now or if they’re still commenting at all.

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