New Docs and a Joke

Well it turns out that two of the docs I was expecting to be seeing while back here in NYC are no longer seeing patients. UGH!!!
And I am about to run out of one of my narcotic prescriptions (the one that causes awful severe withdrawal symptoms) is about to run out... Don't I just feel like fate is on my side? Well actually yes to some degree it is ;) I tricked ya for a sec there didn't I?
It turns out my dad's regular doc likes him a whole lot and is aware of the very negative effects of withdrawal from this particular drug and was willing to see this morning, and my dad only called to make an apt yesterday afternoon! Can't beat that.
SO even though I can't sleep, I am in awful Fybro and Neuro pain and my whole body hates me for working out a lil too hard 2 days ago I got at 9am (which is really really early for me) and went to the Dr.'s office (something I generally really don't like doing).
The NP I saw was nice and my dad's doc was a lot like many other doctors who don't know about this rare and complicated illness. Doctors that have been at their post for 20 years or more want to believe that know the answer and new problems and issues and illness and diagnoses seem to bother them and they can't believe they are true so it has to be something they are familiar with ... but my problem is that what I have isn't what they seem to want it to be. I am NOT bipolar, I DO NOT have MS, I can get depressed at times (chronic severe pain, life long goals destroyed completely, and a body that barely works half the time... if I wasn't depressed there would be something very wrong with me) but all that not withstanding I am NOT suicidal, I DO NOT over take my painkillers (damn it people I barely take them when I need them and never take as much even as I am prescribed), I am NOT addicted, I am NOT in pain because I am depressed BUT I am depressed (sometimes) because I am in pain.
I like the Doc and he did agree to give me a new prescription but I really hate dealing with the medical establishment most of the time. I am sorry for the rant but hey can you blame me after spending 2.5 hours explaining my illness (that has been diagnosed by some of the top specialists in the world or at the very least the entire western hemisphere) and then having to repeatedly defend my treatments (that have been proven to work) and the diagnoses and specialists them selves.
NOW on to the Joke: (my dad told me this after the doctor appointment was over and I found it truly truly hilarious I hope you like it too :)
A woman walks into a veterinary clinic with a duck in her arms and asks to see the vet. He sees her immediately and after examining the duck he says "I am sorry mam your duck is dead. "
The woman becomes very upset and starts to cry and says "Oh know he can't be please please do something!"
"Alright" he replies and he goes to the next room and returns with a Black Labrador. The dog pads over to the duck, sniffs it, and pats at it with his paw, then looks at the vet and shakes his head and walks back out. "I am sorry mam the duck is dead" says the vet to the woman.
Once again she starts to cry "Oh no, oh no he just can't be dead please please isn't there anything else?"
The vet says "OK, OK calm down" and walks to the room across the hall and returns with a very very large tom cat. The cat pads over to the duck and and circles it, and puts one paw on the duck and then the other, batting at it and patting it. Then the cat sniffs it and lets out a cat sneeze and dirty look, turns to the vet and shakes its head and walks out back to its room.
The vet looks at the woman and says "I am sorry mam the duck is dead. It isn't coming back and there isn't anything else I can do".
Sniffling and crying the woman is now resigned and walks out to the reception area to get her bill. In moments she comes back to the vet extremely upset.
"150 dollars?!! For a dead duck are you crazy??!!"
The vet looks at her and says "mam I told you the duck was dead, if you had excepted that it would have been $20, but you required Lab results and a Cat scan"

I hope that made you laugh!!!
TTYallL