Aw Homeless, I know a lot of doctors are idiots. There are a lot of good ones too - unfortunately, sometimes a person has to wade through the bozos first.

I'm not talking about going to a doctor everytime you feel discomfort. I don't. When I hurt my foot last year, I never went. Even if I had broken it, which I probably did, what were they going to do besides tell me to stay off it, maybe set me up with one of those orthopedic booties, and get my money? I could stay off my foot on my own. I did, and it healed. Took awhile, but it would have took awhile in any case.

When I started having severe dizzy spells, the first time, they went away. The second time, I went to the doctor. This had never happened before and it was just a little scary. Turns out, it was no big deal... she called it "benign positional vertigo" and prescribed me a low-dose diuretic to balance the fluids in my head. It helped. I have had very few problems with it since. (Still have to watch those spins in my dance class, though.)

What I'm talking about is willfully ignoring that intuition that says There Is Something Very Wrong With My Body. It may be nothing, but then again...