Eguller
I'm reminded of my stubborn, know-it-all mother. She knows more than the doctors. "Nobody knows my body better than I do!"
Okay. So she's had two doctors refuse to treat her after noncompliance with her medications. She literally has a pharmacy in her kitchen. None of it organized. Hell, half the time I don't think even she knows what she's taking. It's like ordering from a menu. "I'll have two of these, one of these, a half one of these, and if I feel up to it later tonight - I'll take the other half."
So she ends up in the hospital because her levels get all out of whack, stays there for 2-3 days until they get her back to where she needs to be, gets released, comes back home, and it's the same shit over and over and over.
Last week when I called her, she was livid. "I cannot believe my doctor turned on me the way he did! He told me that if I didn't start taking my medication as prescribed - he was going to drop me as his patient!"
I just listened and at the end I said, "Well, mom, perhaps you should stop playing doctor and let those who are doctors help you. And the best way you can do that is to follow their advice."
You know, I thought my mother was just one of those rare individuals who happens to know more than the experts. I've learned that her type is more common than I realize. They just live to make life difficult for everyone around them, even their family members, ESPECIALLY their family members who have to drop everything they're doing to take her to the ER, all because she's a card-carrying member of the medical crisis of the month club.
I can tolerate ignorance, up to a certain point. But not outright stupidity.
