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Jun. 28th, 2007 09:11 amI'm so furious right now I could spit. Someone at Kaiser canceled my dermatology appointment WITHOUT TELLING ME and then claimed it was MY FAULT. UM, HELLO? I'm fucking miserable, why the hell would I cancel my appointment? And THEN tried to fob me off on the nurse practitioner. Uh, NO that's not happening. I only found out today, because I was trying to confirm my appointment. *RAGE RAGE RAGE*
UPDATE: Ok, got back from the appointment with the nurse practitioner (who was very nice and listened to me and was just generally wonderful, first experience I've ever had with Kaiser staff that was pleasant and helpful) and Dr. L came in and all three of us discussed my options. They took some of my skin to biopsy (and boy what that weird to watch) to make absolutely sure that this is an allergic reation. Then we're going to see about doing a RAST test in Allergy and if Dr. V can't do it (he's the Doc I saw when I got my scratch test done where I found I'm allergic to dust mites and cockroaches) then they're fobbing me off to Johns-Hopkins for even more advanced testing.
But it really might come down to I'm just horrifically allergic to ferrets and that means I'd have to think really seriously about giving them up. Which I completely, totally don't want to do. I love the little guys and would miss them terribly. I mean, if it was just a head, nose, throat, upper respiratory allergy, then I'd say, "Bring on the medications, bitches!" Because they make a lot of medicines for that. Almost no allergy medicines, from what I've been told and what I've researched myself, have any effect on skin allergies. And I can't be on steroids for long periods because I could box my liver and kidneys and then where would I be? No where, absolutely no where.
UPDATE: Ok, got back from the appointment with the nurse practitioner (who was very nice and listened to me and was just generally wonderful, first experience I've ever had with Kaiser staff that was pleasant and helpful) and Dr. L came in and all three of us discussed my options. They took some of my skin to biopsy (and boy what that weird to watch) to make absolutely sure that this is an allergic reation. Then we're going to see about doing a RAST test in Allergy and if Dr. V can't do it (he's the Doc I saw when I got my scratch test done where I found I'm allergic to dust mites and cockroaches) then they're fobbing me off to Johns-Hopkins for even more advanced testing.
But it really might come down to I'm just horrifically allergic to ferrets and that means I'd have to think really seriously about giving them up. Which I completely, totally don't want to do. I love the little guys and would miss them terribly. I mean, if it was just a head, nose, throat, upper respiratory allergy, then I'd say, "Bring on the medications, bitches!" Because they make a lot of medicines for that. Almost no allergy medicines, from what I've been told and what I've researched myself, have any effect on skin allergies. And I can't be on steroids for long periods because I could box my liver and kidneys and then where would I be? No where, absolutely no where.
