I also wanted to let you know Jules that I completely recognize the immediate and fearful reaction to that nurse's comment....here you are trying to believe or allow yourself to be convinced that you are indeed ok and then a representative of the medical field says something like
that. All your efforts at rational thought are flushed down the drain. I remember meeting with my first neuro and after 15 minutes with me she scheduled a whole sh*t-load of tests and wrote my GP that she suspected MND. She scared the crap out of me. Now to her credit, she did not state her suspicions to me...I obtained a copy of her report and used it scare myself silly (but on a positive note, it spurred me to come out of hiding on the forum...silver lining, yahoo!). Thank goodness MND appears to be off the table for me, but that is beside the point. I feel your pain!
And as a side note about insensitive comments from nurses:
I was scheduling my follow-up with my GP. He said he wanted to see me in 3 weeks. The nurse (?) said he didn't have an opening for NINE weeks, was that ok? I said absolutely not, he wants me in 3 weeks, I want to be back in 3 weeks. She glanced at my paperwork, and I swear to god she said aloud, " well I don't see anything here that serious...can't you wait?" OMG.
I know this is petty...I know this is wrong....but I keep thinking of Brenda going back to her early neuro with her awful diagnosed (the neuro that said she was fine), and I think of my nurse....and I just want to *slap* her! (ahhh..slap
the nurse...not Brenda
)
Keep your head up (and you have to sing that line...)
Lydia