Grandma's Behavior Invites Documented Scrutiny Of Doctor

Grandma is getting a second opinion about the now diminished yet still constant pain since her knee replacement surgery in early Spring. Long time readers will know Grandma's opinion of doctors. To receive attention from a second physician, however, she had to obtain medical documents from the first doctor, creating an awkward sort of "oh, so you want a second opinion, eh? Why? What'd I do to you?" Grandma showed me a funny sort of memo he put in one of the copies. In the interest of preserving the sanctity of HIPPA regulations regarding medical documents and per Grandma's request, I'm putting the blurb up here for all y'all to see. Keep the following in mind: they don't write something down unless they believe it has relevance to the situation. That's what made this so damn funny:
I know med school teaches people to write like legibility classes in first grade never happened, but cast your eyes to the bottom where it states: "spends considerable time playing video games." This will not be the first time gaming has been blamed for Grandma's aches, and it probably won't be the last. Grandma does her exercises at home as prescribed, she goes to therapy, which consists of physical rehabilitative therapy as well as water therapy. She takes pain medication only when things get really bad, only because she's afraid of what drug dependence can do, and she's sick of doctors telling her that she only wants pain management for "Oxycontin." Fuck pain pills, man. She hates them. She doesn't want to sue anybody she doesn't want drugs she just wants the god damn pain to go away. She's given several John Hopkins D-student practitioners an earful when it comes to accusations.

And now she has to again defend video games.

She may be hardcore, but she's not obsessed. She and I go shopping, she moves around, she's not a log. We get so many e-mails from folks in similar situations to Grandma saying that gaming might be the best thing to do when you're hurting. There are readers of oghc that are therapists saying Grandma is doing everything right. So today, Grandma goes to get that second opinion.


I've noticed a recent peak in parental hate-mail asking me how their kids found oghc. A couple of them were nice enough to offer a solution, so here's the compromise that seems to do everything and nothing at the same time: a rating system.

Video #1 - PG-13 (She says "SHIT!")
Video #2 - PG-13 (She uses Asshole, Shit, Hell, and Damn.)
Video #3 - TVMA (She uses Dammit, Damn, Fucking, "ASSHOLE!!" and Ass.)
Video #4 - TV-14 (She uses the phrase "Joint," "Inebriated," Ass, Dammit, Shit, and "PISS!!")
Video #5 - TVMA (She uses Fucker, Oh Shit, and Shit.)
Video #6 - R (She uses Jackass, Dammit, Fuck, Shit, FUCKER, and fucking)
Video #7 - TVMA (She uses Shit, FUCK, asshole, and "stupid.")
The Last Audio MP3 - MAY CONTAIN EXPLICIT LYRICS (She says "shit" and that's ...bad or something.)

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