sungoddess
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So, there's been some kind of sickness crap going around the house here... and of COURSE I got it. Couldn't get in w/my regular doc the entire week & today I couldn't take it anymore & went to the ER... to avoid boring you w/the tests, etc... I have bronchitis & some other crap. To get to the good part of the story...
I get there, tell the lady that checks you in and decides "how sick" you are what my issues are & what meds I'm on, and likes always, I include pot, but I usually choose the words MMJ or Medicinal Cannabis instead. Anyway, she's a volunteer that works there and she wrote down my other 5 meds w/zero issue, but that one, I get the raised eyebrow & she didn't even write it down. I repeated it and she says "Well that's not a medication." I said "Um, I have a prescription, so I'm gonna go with, yes it is." She told me to let the nurse decide, hands me some papers and points me to the waiting room. Mental note: I don't like her.
Anyway, the nurse gets me in a few minutes & he does all my vitals, etc. I repeat all the same info & tell him about the pot & he asks what I use it for & I tell him & he asks me how it's working for me & he actually asked if that was why the dosage of my medication was different than before (I started carrying a list of my meds w/dosages etc instead of trying to remember...). I told him yes & that I was getting to come off of that medication... he told me how he was a huge advocate of MMJ & off and on while I was there he would check on me & was actually pretty inquisitive but in a VERY positive manner. He even brought me a newspaper that had an article about a dispensary... lmao How funny - I volunteer there! He even came back later and gave me a cool little card to carry in my wallet to put my meds on... so I don't have to carry this stupid piece of notebook paper around.
And the doctor, he was awesome. He had to give me meds for several things that were wrong b/c of my other medical issues, but I explained concerns about meds & also that I preferred MMJ over other things and wanted to use that over other methods as much as possible. He thought it was great that I doing something more natural for myself. The only thing he suggested was that I take a break from smoking until my cough settles down and consume edibles. He did send me home with a cough med for days and one for nights as well w/codeine in it to take if I wanted and said that if my cough settled enough that I could smoke if I needed to, but said something more concentrated would probably be better tolerated than smoking pot b/c the plant matter might be too hard on my lungs.
Now really - how great is that? A nurse that took the time to ask questions because he just wanted to know more about how it helped a patient and a doctor that not only supported his patient using it but ALSO was able to give out advice in a positive way?
And, YES, I took the time to write their names down so that I can write a letter to the hospital about how freaking amazing they are.
I get there, tell the lady that checks you in and decides "how sick" you are what my issues are & what meds I'm on, and likes always, I include pot, but I usually choose the words MMJ or Medicinal Cannabis instead. Anyway, she's a volunteer that works there and she wrote down my other 5 meds w/zero issue, but that one, I get the raised eyebrow & she didn't even write it down. I repeated it and she says "Well that's not a medication." I said "Um, I have a prescription, so I'm gonna go with, yes it is." She told me to let the nurse decide, hands me some papers and points me to the waiting room. Mental note: I don't like her.
Anyway, the nurse gets me in a few minutes & he does all my vitals, etc. I repeat all the same info & tell him about the pot & he asks what I use it for & I tell him & he asks me how it's working for me & he actually asked if that was why the dosage of my medication was different than before (I started carrying a list of my meds w/dosages etc instead of trying to remember...). I told him yes & that I was getting to come off of that medication... he told me how he was a huge advocate of MMJ & off and on while I was there he would check on me & was actually pretty inquisitive but in a VERY positive manner. He even brought me a newspaper that had an article about a dispensary... lmao How funny - I volunteer there! He even came back later and gave me a cool little card to carry in my wallet to put my meds on... so I don't have to carry this stupid piece of notebook paper around.
And the doctor, he was awesome. He had to give me meds for several things that were wrong b/c of my other medical issues, but I explained concerns about meds & also that I preferred MMJ over other things and wanted to use that over other methods as much as possible. He thought it was great that I doing something more natural for myself. The only thing he suggested was that I take a break from smoking until my cough settles down and consume edibles. He did send me home with a cough med for days and one for nights as well w/codeine in it to take if I wanted and said that if my cough settled enough that I could smoke if I needed to, but said something more concentrated would probably be better tolerated than smoking pot b/c the plant matter might be too hard on my lungs.
Now really - how great is that? A nurse that took the time to ask questions because he just wanted to know more about how it helped a patient and a doctor that not only supported his patient using it but ALSO was able to give out advice in a positive way?
And, YES, I took the time to write their names down so that I can write a letter to the hospital about how freaking amazing they are.
