A curious solution...
Nov. 24th, 2014 10:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpJust before the doc started the biopsy the other day, he asked me if I wanted to know the results as soon as they came back, or if I wanted to wait until my appointment to learn whatever news there might be.
I chose to be informed whenever the results came back.
Theoretically, said results should have come back today, but I received no phone call.
This set off some rather interesting trains of thought that, more often than not, ended up as smoking wrecks off to the side of the mental track they were on. Over the course of the day, I got pretty good at quickly thinking about something else.
And among the the "something elses" I thought about was an improved alternative in response to the doctor's question. Specifically, I think I should have asked him to flip a coin and if the answer was heads, to call as soon as the results were known; if the answer was tails, he should hold off until my appointment (which happens to be tomorrow).
That way, there would be one major legitimate event whose outcome I could blame, should I choose to, as the cause of not receiving a phone call. Otherwise, the "benign" alternatives available to me for the lack of news are things like "the doctor forgot," "the results aren't back yet," and my favorite quip about the differences between theory and practice, all of which seem pretty sketchy right about now, should I choose to think about them. When I do allow myself to think about it, "the results aren't back yet" is the front-runner, but only by a half-length.
* * * For a long time, I had thought the well had gone dry with regard to personal recollections of incidents in my life that were worth relating (my inability to recall any more such incidents was, actually, the reason I began to write fiction pieces for Idol in, if memory serves, my second season of participation). Suddenly, this season, I'm finding that, while such recollections do not occur to me as often as they did when I first started writing for Idol, they still manage to show up on a fairly regular basis.
As a case in point, I've come up with a memoir for the LJ Idol piece due tomorrow night, but now I need to find the time to actually write the blessed thing.
Onward!
Cheers...
I chose to be informed whenever the results came back.
Theoretically, said results should have come back today, but I received no phone call.
This set off some rather interesting trains of thought that, more often than not, ended up as smoking wrecks off to the side of the mental track they were on. Over the course of the day, I got pretty good at quickly thinking about something else.
And among the the "something elses" I thought about was an improved alternative in response to the doctor's question. Specifically, I think I should have asked him to flip a coin and if the answer was heads, to call as soon as the results were known; if the answer was tails, he should hold off until my appointment (which happens to be tomorrow).
That way, there would be one major legitimate event whose outcome I could blame, should I choose to, as the cause of not receiving a phone call. Otherwise, the "benign" alternatives available to me for the lack of news are things like "the doctor forgot," "the results aren't back yet," and my favorite quip about the differences between theory and practice, all of which seem pretty sketchy right about now, should I choose to think about them. When I do allow myself to think about it, "the results aren't back yet" is the front-runner, but only by a half-length.
As a case in point, I've come up with a memoir for the LJ Idol piece due tomorrow night, but now I need to find the time to actually write the blessed thing.
Onward!
Cheers...
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Date: 2014-11-25 05:58 am (UTC)I hope the results of the biopsy come out in your favor and all is well.
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Date: 2014-11-25 06:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-11-25 11:24 am (UTC)For what it's worth, I suspect MDs call immediately when the news is bad, and that they request that you come into their office rather than delivering the news over the phone.