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       Refuse To Fuse



      By Judith Levy                                     more doctors, and not just doctors, specialists. Doctors   I don’t get a person to respond but a record that tells me to
                                                         today are doing just the left foot, not the right. Whatever   listen carefully as their options have changed. Then they
         I used to look askance at                       happened to my regular doctor who knew me and took   go on and on offering me choices that don’t apply to me
      someone who would blow                             care of everything? He’s gone, or maybe she’s gone. Now   so I hit Operator. Then they hang up! So, I call back and
      up so easily, over nothing.                        I deal with someone who hardly knows me, if he knows   am again advised to listen as their options have changed.
      What  a  bore.  I  felt  sorry                     me at all. I come in time for my appointment and then wait   What are my options except to scream!
      for his wife. Yelling at the                       more than a half hour till I’m called in. I’m then ushered      So, I see my fuse has gotten shorter and shorter and I
      waiter, dissatisfied with                          into a room with the door closed for privacy and again I   don’t like that. When did that happen? How have I become
      everything.  Was  nothing                          wait and wait. When the doctor finally comes in he hardly   so quick to reach my blowup point? Is it being in the house
      good?                                              speaks to me, he just keeps an account of my history and   so much? Is it the lack of being with friends and family?
         Surely,  we  live  in  a                        the pills I’m taking, which needs to be updated in his   I’m not certain what’s to blame but I’m not happy with
      beautiful place and there’s lots to be grateful for, so what’s   computer. Then he tells me, after a cursory examination   the result. I’m going to refuse to fuse. I’m going to let
      the problem? I don’t know, but with this pandemic I find   that I have to take tests and go on to another doctor who   things pass. I’m not going to listen to every news program
      that my own fuse is getting shorter and shorter. Am I   doesn’t know me at all. I’m then given a prescription   filled with repetitive doom and gloom. I’m going to read
      turning into that person I disliked? I find I have little or   which can cost almost five hundred dollars for a months’   a book, bake a pie, do my nails, write a letter to a friend
      no patience and I’m lately finding fault with whatever.   supply. What do poor people do? When they don’t call me   and just throw off the tenseness and irritability that this
         I dislike when I call my doctor, and I seem to need   with the results of my tests for almost a week, I call them.   pandemic has wrapped me in. It takes strength not to be
                                                                                                           discouraged in these difficult times, but I’m going to try
                                                                                                           to find my old self, the one with the smile. Where are you?
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