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Hey. Back from "doc".
NP gave me antibiotics for ankle. got tetanus booster.
Then the NP comes back in with another NP, and announces, "You have a heart murmur, this person has more cardio experience, she'll listen too".
WHAT THE FCUK!? Where'd this happen? How? What? I saw MD 4 weeks agoand nothing. 20 years of nothing.
So this NP says "it's a subtle heart murmur but we're going to schedule an echocardiogram and determine severity and so forth" nad I'm just sitting there with my head spinning, can't breathe, utter meltdown b/c I can't do another thing wrong in life, let alone with me, and what the fuck?
We have app't with actual MD in two weeks, but I dunno when we get the echo, and it's just freaking me out. If it's subtle, then is is there? Is it a problem? What do I do? What should I do? WTF?
I'm left adrift. By NPs.
I hate nurse pracs. Not one positive experience yet, just *one* lone experience with a nurse practitionerthat wasn't bad. (Not good. Juzt not bad.)
So that's my day.
Hubby, btw, is dong fine on his weird illness. Glad someone is.
Going back to ed. I'm unable to cope.
I have had a heart murmur all my life and the odd thing it is only once in a great while that a doctor/NP will say "hey, do you know you have a heart murmur?" I don't think you should panic...I think they can go undetected for ages and are usually pretty benign.
As for being left adrift by NPs, I am left adrift by the entire medical profession but I don't sound bitter do I? :) Hope your ankle feels better xo