Last week was one of those weeks where everything seemed to go wrong. It started out with mild annoyances at work. On Tuesday I had to call an insurance company to do what's called a peer-to-peer review. I ordered a sleep study on a patient who had excessive daytime sleepiness and their insurance wouldn't cover it without me talking to them first. It got approved but the doctor I talked to was an absolute ass for no real apparent reason. On Wednesday I saw a new patient who left mad because I wouldn't give them antibiotics for a 3 day illness with normal vitals and a normal exam. They had a viral illness that would improve with time. I explained to them that antibiotics were not helpful. Even after 10 minutes of explaining they were still mad. It frustrates me how I can spend over a decade learning medicine and then people with absolutely no medical training come in and think they know everything because they read it on Google.
Things massively got worse from there. On Thursday my 9 year old computer died. I was using it and it shut off. I thought the power in the house went out but it didn't. It was just the power to my computer. I tried to trouble shoot the problem but there were too many variables and the computer was nearly a decade old so I gave up. I thought I would be able to rip the hard drives out and access our data but I was wrong. Apparently the hard drive was a dynamic drive, a more advanced type of drive that many Windows platforms can't read (even though it is a type of Windows drive). I am in the process of still figuring that out but so far have been unsuccessful. Oh yeah, I started to develop a cold on Thursday too. I never really got sick, but didn't feel great, just bad enough for it to be annoying.
Then on Friday, I got a call from my dad saying my mom had a massive gallbladder attack. They took her to the hospital and removed the gallbladder and all is well now, but she apparently was pretty sick over the weekend.
I was more than ready enough for last week to be over. Oh, and to add insult to injury my new student loan payment terms kicked in this week. My new payments are similar in amount to a house mortgage, which, you know, is fantastic. I am using my MacBook now as my main computer and am still in the process of getting things set up and organized the way I want and had them on my old desktop.