My husband has an aversion to doctors. When we first got married, I did something I thought I would never do: make his doctor appointments for him. (And yes, I grumbled the whole time about how I am neither his wife nor his secretary and yet I still did it anyway.) He’s had a lot of sinus problems that’s probably connected to his dust allergy so I finally got him to go to an allergist. Hooray for small miracles, right? But his biggest source of whining lately has been some pain in his foot. He was supposed to be running a marathon this weekend but hadn’t really done any training because of the pain. I’m getting pretty tired of constantly hearing about the awful, crippling, “you-don’t-know-what-it’s-like-to-be-me” pain so I think it’s time he did something about it. This is an actual conversation we had the other day:
Husband: [over-dramatic limping and grimacing] Ow…my foot hurts!
Me: Did you finally make an appointment with the podiatrist?
Husband: I have an appointment with the allergist today.
Me: [confused - as often happens when talking to the husband] What does that have to do with your foot?
Husband: I’m going to ask him about my foot pain.
Me: You do realize that an allergist isn’t going to want to look at your foot or be able to diagnose the source of your so-called pain, right?
Husband: Why not? He went to medical school, didn’t he? Not just allergy school.
Me: *sigh*
Let me just offer you a quick visual…
This is an x-ray of a foot:
(Not an actual x-ray of my husband's foot...we don't have one since he refuses to go to the podiatrist.)
And this is a dust mite:
(Ok yeah, I know it's a stuffed animal dust mite but this is the only picture of one that didn't make me gag.)
Do you see how they’re not at all related? Well, if you do then you’re already one-up on my husband.
He makes a good point really. You’d think the allergist would have taken general anatomy, right?
Just because they take it doesn’t mean they remember. I can ask my horse vet about something with the cats and he goes “Huh??”.
OHMYGOSH my husband is the same way! I made an appointment for him to go to the dentist just before we got married. He hadn’t been in 9 years. Nevermind he works for a unversity and gets great benefits…. he still won’t go to the doctor on his own.
hahaha my husband hates doctors too…and unfortunatly I admit that I make his doctors appointments. If i don’t he won’t go! He had a HORRIBLE toothache and believed putting oil of oregano on it would fix it…umm..no you need a doctor! So I made his appt…I guess it’s all part of my role as a wife..lol
OMG! That’s too funny. Hey at least he made an appointment with someone! Mine is exactly like that too. I will say one thing, it’s worth making the appts for them. Trust me. If I didn’t bug my hub about his ‘lump’ in his groin, and make all his appts, we never would have caught the cancer so quick, and be able to beat it. Now on I have no problems dialing those digits and just telling him when to go.
I went down the “make appointments for him” road and gave it up. He won’t go. Even when I schedule it, fill out all the intake paperwork, and make sure that they have his insurance info and co-pay, he still won’t go! I had to go to one doctor’s office to get the copay back because he wouldn’t go even knowing that we had paid for it already. Now, whenever he starts whining about pain or whatever the ailment of the week is, I say, “That’s why God made doctors.” End of conversation.
Missing the photo Friday…
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I’ve been married a little over a year and my wife is still begging me to go to the doctor’s. Unless I’m in dire need of medical attention, I’m not going. If I pull a muscle or have pain, eventually it gets better. If I go to a doctor, he just tells me the medical term for “pain in your right shoulder”, hands me a prescription and charges me out the wazoo. I can go to the local grocery store and find nearly any medicine for what ails me at a fraction of the cost of a doctors visit. Not to mention I don’t have to wait in that awful waiting room with people sneezing and coughing everywhere. You’re husband might be annoying, but he has to take a stand for us guys!
My husband is the same way – he refuses to make appointments for himself. Why are they like that?!
I’ve been w/my husband 7 years and he hasn’t been to the dentist once. He just won’t go! I think it’s kinda gross. I’m the one he wants to kiss right? Get your mouth cleaned already!!
am I the only one that noticed that there is a company actually manufactured and distributed a stuffed “dust mites”???? bizarre!