Bittersweet Bonds - Pernicious Anemia and the Doctor-Patient Dance

[Rexz]

Not sure if this is any good but as I was hating my doctors it occurred to me how much I need them. A typical love-hate relationship.

A Poem

In the sterile halls where healing light does glow,

Lies a dance of love and hate, where souls bestow

Their trust upon the learned hands that dare

To diagnose, to treat, to show they care.

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Diagnosis, a puzzle of cells and signs,

Where swift assumptions mask the subtle lines.

Limited moments, fleeting seconds slip away,

Misdiagnoses lurk in the rush of day.

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Oh, doctors, custodians of knowledge vast,

Your gaze upon us, a die that's cast.

Yet in your stride, let humility lead the way,

For Pernicious Anemia may silently sway.

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We seek your counsel, yet with cautious mind,

For errors lurk where human frailties bind.

A second glance, a different point of view,

Could unveil truths obscured from patient's view.

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Amidst the maze of charts and tests arrayed,

We yearn for focus on our unique shade.

To know you see beyond the textbook lines,

To feel your empathy in all designs.

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For you, dear doctors, are our guiding star,

Navigating health's tempestuous bar.

If only time and ego would concede,

To hear our whispers, and our pleas take heed.

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In this love-hate embrace, we must unfold,

A partnership where trust and truth take hold.

For in your hands, our lives become your art,

A dance of healing, where love finds its part.

Rexz

[Wwwdot]

Rexz

THAT IS INCREDIBLE! Wonderful!

🤗🤗🤗

[Rexz in reply to Wwwdot]

Thank you Wwwdot!

[tuchwood]

Amazing 👏

[PlatypusProfit8077]

so good!!

As a friend said to me the other day, “do you know what they call a doctor who came last in his class in medical school?…..doctor, they’re still called doctor. They’re still human with egos and bias and mistakes galore.”

When you find a good one, you hold on tight!

[FlipperTD in reply to PlatypusProfit8077]

Many aren't doctors in the academic sense anyway!

[Rexz in reply to PlatypusProfit8077]

Haha, that's funny, if only it weren't so true!!When I find a good one I'll Velcro them to me! 😂

I do have a few good ones who listen but I've found that unless I'm there talking the me and my condition are out of their mind. They all require constant adult supervision, of which we have little energy for!

[Nackapan]

Thankyou .Good to read

[Orchard33]

Good sentiments and great rhymes.

[Whiteways4711]

Very good Rexz that definitely shifted my consciousness a bit and set me up nicely for the day. Have a good day yourself and everyone else out there. Great forum thanks for sharing.

[Rexz in reply to Whiteways4711]

Oh my, a shift in consciousness, I do hope that wasn't painful! 😂. Glad it helped.

[YearsNow]

Spot on description.

[Jillymo]

Well, well well your a poet but we didn't know it. Your rhyme and reason is well expressed. If only we could get it published.

Well done you. 👋

[Rexz in reply to Jillymo]

Thank you Jillymo. Lol, I don't know what I am anymore! 🙃

[Jillymo in reply to Rexz]

I would say your very talented.

I know the feeling of not knowing who we are anymore. 🤪

[Rexz in reply to Jillymo]

It's a beautiful sunny day at the beach where you've spent a good part of your day (life) building a magnificent sand castle. Then a bully comes by and kicks it over smashing all your hard work. When you hear the bully's name, you think it an odd name "Pernicious Anemia!".

[Jillymo in reply to Rexz]

I have lost count of how many times that damned bully has kicked sand in my face. If any consolation I am having an off day too. 🤕

PA is pretty crap to have to cope with but at least we havn't lost our humour. I'm going to give myself an extra 💉and maybe a snooze. 🥱 😴

Maybe we will have a better day tomorrow. 🙏

[Rexz in reply to Jillymo]

I love the thought of a good snooze! 🥱

[Jillymo in reply to Rexz]

I see you have hashimoto's and sjogrens so if not the PA we are stricken with one of the other conditions. It seems our bodies are constantly battling against one thing or another. I just gave myself another shot of love 💉

I wish we could zap these wretched antibodies. 🥱

[Rexz in reply to Jillymo]

Yep, today the fatigue is either Hash, inflammation from autoimmune gastritis or Sjogren's, iron or micronutrient deficiency, oh yes we've to keep our B12 topped off! It's like the old shell game where you have to guess which cup the peanut is under. Only in our version of the game every cup has a peanut. 🧐

[Jillymo in reply to Rexz]

No peanuts here I cant eat them I have diverticular as well as a hiatus hernia, crohns & autoimmune errosive gastritis. 😩 We could guess which pocket it is in the intestine. 🤣 Oh isn't life grand ?

Go and give yourself a shot of lurv. ❤

[Ghound]

Brilliant thanks Rexz !!! And so true ! xxx