"The waiting room and the doctors' handwriting..." 'James "Kimo" Rosen' (Kimo's world #339)

 

James "Kimo" Rosen is a retired professional photographer  

amongst other things is a humorist writer.

Rosen currently resides on the tropical island of Kaua'i

                                         with his best friend and spiritual adviser,                                  

                                   Ivanka "Costco" Obama, The bipartisan Dog!

                     Sunrise/Weather Photos, September- 2022

                These photos appeared on Hawaii News Now

                   Blog #2093~Kimo's world #339

The waiting room and  the doctors' handwriting

 The doctor's waiting room has changed in recent years. There's no longer the magazine

and newspaper rack to keep you busy while awaiting your visit. Patients are now glued to their smartphones in the waiting rooms even though you see signs saying no cell phone usage.

I am not a patient person.

  Although I am a patient of many doctors and wait prolonged periods of time in their waiting rooms. This drives me bonkers even if I have nowhere else to go. 

When they finally call your name, like in a "Seinfeld" episode, your all smiles and gloat

to the others in the waiting room only to find they are putting you in another private waiting room. This makes you feel like your wait is over and you'll be seeing the doctor any minute, but yet have another 30-45 minute wait.

The old waiting room is my least favorite part of any doctor's visit. I never understood how all these intelligent people that go through years of schooling,

residency and internships cannot manage time. How can they get one to two hours behind schedule?  Aren't they taught in medical school to get to the point, be polite and limit the small talk, and respect people's time?   The only doctors that seem to manage time properly are the psychiatrists. When your hour is up you're out of there, that timer goes off, the shrink looks at his watch and says, "say time next week?" 

There is an exception, there is one waiting room I don’t mind waiting in.  When I have

virtual telemedicine appointments and the doctor is late I can hang out in the comforts of my home and watch TV, use the computer and raid the frig. That waiting room was designed with the patient in mind! LOL

The other pet peeve I have is the doctor's handwriting, again these folks of high intellect

and high IQ  can barely write. I know people with a sixth education that have beautiful penmanship, yet when I transferred medical records from one clinic to another, the new clinic could not decipher the handwritten notes from my former provider. 

I believe all people that go into health care and medicine and especially those

becoming medical doctors need to have classes in both how to handwrite and how to manage time so people aren't in the waiting room half the day.  I've talked to a couple of pharmacists that have such a hard time reading some doctors' handwriting that they must call their respective offices to find out the prescription. This becomes a waste of the pharmacist's and doctors' limited staff's precious time.

On my last doctor visit, I told my doc “Getting old is really tough!  I get up in the morning, go to the bathroom and stand for 20-25 minutes before I

can urinate, an hour later I go back to the bathroom and sit for 30-35 minutes before I have a bowel movement.”

Then the Doc tells me don't feel bad,  "I get up in the morning, pee, take a dump and in no time get out of bed, shower, eat breakfast, and by the time I get to my office I'm an hour late and there's already 5 patients in the waiting room. (LOL)

Growing older may not be fun, but sure is funny! 

This blog appeared in the 'Wellness section of the Garden news

on Wednesday 09-21--22!

https://www.thegardenisland.com/2022/09/21/lifestyles/rosen-the-waiting-room-and-the-doctors-handwriting/

Hana Hou (Encore)

" One-upping your ailments..." 'James "Kimo" Rosen (Kimo's world #338)

 

James "Kimo" Rosen is a retired professional photographer  

amongst other things is a humorist writer.

Rosen currently resides on the tropical island of Kaua'i

                                         with his best friend and spiritual adviser,                                  

                                   Ivanka "Costco" Obama, The bipartisan Dog!

               Sunrise/Weather Photos, September- 2022

              These photos appeared on Hawaii News Now

                    Blog #2092~Kimo's world #338

                   One-upping your ailments

 I’m around many senior citizens since I live in a senior housing community and almost all my friends are over 65.

We all like to

talk about our medical ailments. Everyone likes to one-up the next guy on how bad their situation is. The worse you are the better for 'old people talk.' You become the official winner if your sickness outweighs your friends or neighbors.

You’ll most likely not receive much empathy from your friends even if you've had a heart attack, just gone through chemotherapy, or spent  3 months in the hospital suffering from a spinal ailment.

Talking ailments with people over 65 is more like a contest than expecting any kind of sympathy, or just a listening ear.

 

You may talk about your recent ambulance ride to Wilcox medical facility where they classified you as a code blue because they thought your spine was strangling

one of your discs in your back for numerous reasons and your neighbor will roll their eyes and say when they were  at Wilcox last time they were  on a ventilator and were told if they came in  one minute later, they'd be dead." Then another neighbor chimes in and says, she had a colonoscopy and they spent over two hours removing polyps and still couldn’t remove them all. 

It goes on and on.  Nobody ever says, wow, I’m really sorry you had to go through all that, I hope you’re feeling better.  This reminds me of Keiki telling other kids, my father can beat up your father.

You might get your religious friend(s) offering to pray for healing! Always accept when

somebody offers to pray for you whether you are a believer or not. Prayer is powerful and always gets results, sometimes not the results we want, and sometimes a miracle... I have been blessed in the past and healed through prayer, so I know firsthand.  

Something else that helps in healing is laughter, I'm currently reading a book recommended by

my doctor called, "Anatomy of an Illness" by Norman Cousins. Cousins himself laughed himself out of an illness that doctors believed to be irreversible. I've never laughed myself out of an illness however I am working on it.

 Cousins also talks about having such fine-tuned relations with your doctor or health care worker that just being in their presence is healing.  I once had a medical professional that did that for me. It's so instrumental to find the right doctor or health care worker!

It's so ironic since I don't consider myself an anxiety-ridden person but most of my health care workers do. This is what my PCP told me when I asked how I could lose 50 lbs of ugly fat. He told me to cut off my head and relax! (LOL) 

  Laugh, enjoy life, and try not to stress. This is what all my doctors and specialists have been telling me. This is what they say is healing.

Did I ever tell you about the time I was hospitalized for three months for a spinal abscess and wasn’t expected to live, then spent three more months in a nursing home to learn to walk again?

 

Getting old may not be fun, but sure is fun one-upping everyone! Your turn. (LOL)

This blog appeared in the 'Wellness section of the Garden news

on Wednesday 09-14-22!

https://www.thegardenisland.com/2022/09/14/lifestyles/rosen-one-upping-your-ailments/

Hana Hou (Encore) 

The Artist  Formerly Known As Prince

"Getting old is no laughing matter, or is it..?" 'James "Kimo" Rosen' (Kimo's world #337)

 

James "Kimo" Rosen is a retired professional photographer  

amongst other things is a humorist writer.

Rosen currently resides on the tropical island of Kaua'i

                                         with his best friend and spiritual adviser,                                  

                                   Ivanka "Costco" Obama, The bipartisan Dog!

                            Sunrise/Weather Photos, August- 2022

              These photos appeared on Hawaii News Now

                    Blog #2091~Kimo's world #337

 Getting old is no laughing matter, or is it?

 

 Getting old is no laughing matter, or is it? A few years back I had my first colonoscopy, the dreaded roto-rooter.

The coming of age for seniors, where you are officially admitted to the old-timers club and are worthy of your senior discounts.  

Now just a couple of years later, they tell me I need a cystoscopy, where they go in through a man's urethra with a camera and look at your prostate to see if you need any of the multiple procedures available for prostate health or to see if you have one of the multiple potential cancers associated with the prostate, bladder or kidneys.

This procedure had me stressed, my heartbeat was up, my blood pressure was high, my glucose was climbing and I was having dreaded thoughts about what could potentially go wrong.  Sitting there on the examination table with no anesthesia and just some numbing topical ointment on my private parts before the doctor inserts the camera can make one feel a little on edge and a little embarrassed if you're on the shy side.

After the camera was entered I felt faint as we watched my prostate on the monitor. I thought I saw two little men walking on the left side of my prostate,  so I shouted silently to them, 'smile and say cheese!' I'm glad the doc and nurse couldn't hear me. The only question that remains is, where will medical science decide the next best place for a camera?

If you have this procedure, make sure you have a great doctor and supporting staff, as I did. The best thing to develop from COVID was the online virtual doctor's visits, now if they could only figure out how to do procedures like this and surgeries online without leaving home!

After this event, I could finally breathe and gloat about the success of the procedure. I was telling my female neighbor about this process and she was astounded that a camera could fit up a man's urethra. We talked about modern medicine and then she said,  "Do they use a Digital Single Lens Reflex 35mm camera or smartphone when taking the pictures inside your urethra?" I told her, on me, they used a 35mm Single-Lens Reflex camera with a 200 mm lens! We both laughed, she then said grinning with a big fat smile on her face, "you only wish!"

This blog also appeared as a column in the Wellness section of the

Garden Island news on Wednesday, 08-31-22

https://www.thegardenisland.com/2022/08/31/lifestyles/rosen-getting-old-is-no-laughing-matter-or-is-it/

Hana Hou (Encore) 

"The Dems are eating their own..." 'James "Kimo" Rosen' (Kimo's world #336)

 

James "Kimo" Rosen is a retired professional photographer  

amongst other things is a humorist writer.

Rosen currently resides on the tropical island of Kaua'i

                                         with his best friend and spiritual adviser,                                  

                                   Ivanka "Costco" Obama, The bipartisan Dog!

                            Sunrise/Weather Photos, August- 2022

              These photos appeared on Hawaii News Now

                    Blog #2090~Kimo's world #336

 The Dems are eating their own

 

 The Yiddish word mensch

has become widely used and mainstream in the English language and is defined as; "a person of integrity and honor." The term is used as a high compliment, implying the rarity and value of that individual's qualities. 

A person who organized

Lt. Governor, Dr. Josh Green
giving a measles vaccine in Samoa
back in 2019

a team of volunteers to go to a foreign land and give measles vaccines to a country where many deaths had occurred, and many of those to keiki would be considered a mensch. 

A politician who

Lt. Governor, Dr. Josh Green
volunteered time to give
many COVID vaccines

in their off time volunteers and gave COVID -19 vaccines would also be considered a mensch. How many politicians do you know who did that?

The politician I speak of is Dr. Josh Green, Hawaii's Lt. Governor who is currently running for Governor in the state's Democratic primary.

On December 4th, 2019 Lt. Gov.  Dr. Josh Green arrived in Samoa to help combat a measles outbreak that had already killed 60 people, many of those children.

Green, who’s also an emergency medical room doctor, organized a team of 55 Hawaii nurses, and 10 doctors that also made the trip with support staff to deliver much-needed immunizations and health care.

Dr. Green has

Greens opponents in Democratic
primary;
Vicky Cayetano
and Kai Kahele

been continually bullied by his opponents and the Democratic party because they want to see records of all his income. Let's also do the same for his opponents, everyone has skeletons in the closet. 

Josh Green also has gone through racist rants of antisemitism amid protests outside

Green made breaking news
last August when he was invited on 
almost every major network to talk
about the vaccine mandate protests
outside his home and the hateful 
antisemitic hate rants and signs.
From Fox News to MSNBC

his Honolulu home against the public health mandates meant to halt the spread of COVID-19 back in August of 2021.

When Hawaii announced restrictions earlier last year state and county workers had to

show proof of vaccination or face weekly tests. Last year 50 to 100 unmasked vaccine opponents gathered almost nightly outside the downtown Honolulu condominium building where Lt. Gov. Josh Green, who is Jewish, lives with his Hawaiian wife and

two children, ages 14 and 10.

There were those yelling antisemitic rants into bullhorns and shining strobe lights into Green's apartment. Flyers with his photo and the words “Jew” and “fraud” had been plastered around the neighborhood.

Green tore them down and turned them over to the state attorney general’s office.

It seems the current Democratic

The Republican candidates for
Governor are;
Heidi Tsuneyoshi
Duke Aiona
BJ Penn

party of Hawaii is now eating their own, on the contrary, the Hawaii Republican party all seem to be supporting one another.

There's an expression that goes, someone who hates you normally hates you for one of three reasons;

1-They see you as a threat.

2-They hate themselves.

3-Or they want to be you.

In the case of Green's opponents, I believe it's all three.

My only regret is

I wish I could vote for Green, as a registered Republican I cannot vote for any Democrat in the primary. In the General election, we are free to vote as we wish.

Let me tell his opponents, Those without sin can cast the first stone--- and that Josh Green is more a mensch and decent human being than most politicians in this crazy polarized society.

 I am appalled at the treatment of the Lt. Governor. 

This blog appeared as an Op-ed column in the Friday

08-12-22 edition of the Garden Island news!

https://www.thegardenisland.com/2022/08/12/opinion/voices-the-democrats-are-eating-their-own/

Hana Hou (Encore)