Most dreaded phrase your doctor says

Oh Turkent I hope you're okay. Keep us posted please.

I hope you are okay too Turkent but I am confused why it even really set off any red flags. 15 pounds since April? April to Dec is 8 months. Trying or not, that's such a minimal amount. Really in a normal person that amount of weight loss could be the difference in going from 3 cans of Coke a day down to 1 or 2. Even that slight of a change will cause a weight loss in those amounts over the same period of time. Heck in April you were still carrying your winter weight, by this Dec you haven't put all that winter weight back on yet. That would account for about 5 pounds, that's normal. 2-3 of that could be the difference in the clothes you have on, and even the thickness of your wallet. If your appointment in April was in the morning and this one was in the evening that will account for another 2-3 pounds too. It's totally amazing to me how some of the small changes we make in our daily lives can, will, and do impact our weight every single day.

Mashie

My weight does not really fluctuate. There really is no winter weight/summer weight for me. It is very steady. I have not been on a mission to drop some weight either. I am very fit. I run 6 miles per day.

I wish I was as lucky as you are with the winter weight issue. Good for you too that you run 6 miles a day. I wish I had that kind of motivation. Running and I don't get along real well. The last time I went running I was at the gym and was doing a fast walk/slow jog on the treadmill. Next thing I knew I woke up on the floor with the paramedics standing over me. Lucky for me they were next door a B-Dubs, or better known as Buffalo Wild Wings. Apparently I passed out while on the treadmill. So it was at that point I decided that sort of thing just wasn't a good thing for me, lol.

Mashie

You need to be shaved properly and catheterized so we can administer enemas till clear and inspect you inside and out.

"We may have to operate" / "It might require an operation"

This is the IRS and we're going to audit your tax return....

Time for the hernia check

"I'm going to take a quick look down there"

Two related things: 1.) The biopsy was positive. You have cancer. 2.) The surgery did not get it all; we will need to operate again. These are scary words and what followed has been even worse. Surgery, radiation and soon drug therapy. Considering, she is doing well but as others in this thread have indicated, it is a lasting thing that will never entirely go away.

Your replacement isn't here so you're going to have to work another shift.

Yeah Liquid, I never thought about writing something from our point of view. Yes, that is the most dreaded phrase ever. It's one thing to agree to word a double, you are already mentally prepared for that. But 20 minutes before the end of your shift and you are told you have to stay and work a double, that's a whole different animal. I hate that more than anything! Which is exactly why in all the years I have been nursing I have called off maybe a total of 4 or 5 times.

Mashie

1. "This is probably going to hurt." Why I dread it: If a doc tells you it's going to hurt, it's going to hurt a F-ton!

2. "We need to do some more tests." Why I dread it: I'm going to spend a lot of time scheduling appointments and going to them.

3. "You should eat better and exercise more." Why I dread it: It implies the doc/PA/nurse thinks I am an idiot who has never thought of, or tried, these things. It's not like I've veen living in a cave my entire life...

A long time ago, I had to take a military health examination. I had been warned by other young guys that it involved palpation of testicles. So the dreaded phrase was "please pull down your briefs".

Was always, ' ok, we need you to turn all the way around now and lie flat on your stomach, and pull down your underpants " I knew what that meant- rectal temperature time. Just wanted them to hurry but it always took forever. Laying there anticipating it was humiliating and super embarassing with but exposed.

"Turn around and lie flat on your stomach" was often a precursor to something much worse than a rectal temp: the dreaded shot. Then your underwear was pulled down and you felt the coolness of that alcohol on your skin...

For me the most feared phrase is to turn around and take off your clothes

Everything off including your socks, leave on your underwear, and have a seat on the table.

"I just need you to lean over the table for a minute"

"Turn around and lie flat on your stomach" was often a precursor to something much worse than a rectal temp: the dreaded shot. Then your underwear was pulled down and you felt the coolness of that alcohol on your skin...

Oh do I remember that. The smell of rubbing alcohol and the embarrassing wiping for the shot. It's just a little mosquito bite, we were told...then the big pinching of the buttock and the horrid jab.

Sounds familiar, Sundaybrunch, save that I used to bend over a receptionist's lap for my shots and the pinch was from her on one buttock to distract me from the shot in the other. The injection was never predicted to be like a mosquito bite and usually felt more like a hornet sting. Even when they didn't hurt at the time, such as booster shots, I often couldn't sit down afterwards. What about you? Did your shots ever leave you unable to sit and, if so, for how long?

"Your blood pressure is rather high. Are you nervous?"

"I just need you to lean over the table for a minute"

For me the most feared phrase is to turn around and take off your clothes

"Turn around and lie flat on your stomach" was often a precursor to something much worse than a rectal temp: the dreaded shot. Then your underwear was pulled down and you felt the coolness of that alcohol on your skin... Oh do I remember that. The smell of rubbing alcohol and the embarrassing wiping for the shot. It's just a little mosquito bite, we were told...then the big pinching of the buttock and the horrid jab.

All phrases that do get my heart pumping..... and @sundaybrunch... after that "horrid jab", there is burning and pressure of the serum being injected... all good fun...

"Would you kind holding the gown open for the hernia exam?" Followed by "You're going to feel my finger over your inguinal canal"

I don't think that I have a dreaded phrase any more about routine physicals. If the doctor had bad news, I would dread that but I don't dread anything that I am expecting from a routine physical exam. As a kid, I was always worried about getting a shot, like most kids are. It never occurred to me to dread a rectal temp even though I got plenty of those growing up. Those didn't hurt but a shot did and I was like most kids getting teary and fearful when very young. I was a little better when I was an older child about shots but not until I was a a teen did the fear of a shot really end. As a young preteen kid, I got my share of shots in my rear and those seemed to sting like fire. I remember one time getting a shot in each butt cheek at the same office visit, cried because they hurt, and couldn't sit comfortably in the car or at home when it was over. Got to sit on a pillow at the dinner table that night while my older brother made fun of me.

At my first prenatal exam the doc did the vaginal exam then said "Just going to change gloves real quick..." That immediately made me think I was getting a rectal exam! It was actually for the vaginal ultrasound but it did cause me to panic for a second! Other than that I always dread hearing "I'm going to send you to the hospital" 😕

"Your blood pressure is rather high. Are you nervous?"

I've heard that, also just a look followed by "lets get an EKG."

Since then I've been successful in toning down my bodies responses. For a while it was very much "combat vet in a war zone" level stuff at the doctors.

These days, "It's another melanoma."

These days, "It's another melanoma."

That's the ONLY line in this entire thread that would make me nervous.

That one would make me nervous too for sure.

Doc and I were playing one time early on in our relationship. I think we had been together less than 6 months maybe. We were playing in the hotel and he felt a lump in my breast. Both sides our our family have had issues along those lines in the past. So while we were in the middle of playing his face suddenly got really serious. I asked him what was wrong and he said, "I feel something......a lump......" He said some other things but either he mumbled or I didn't hear him.

He was out of our bed and dressed and telling me to hurry up before I could even process exactly what he said and what the heck was going on. Next thing I remember was being in his office minutes later getting an ultrasound. The next day I believe I got rushed in for a stat mammy and then another ultrasound on the area in question. Lucky for me all ended up all clear, but that little scare sure ended fun time with a quickness, lol.

I wasn't ready to stop playing, but it just goes to show you, whether we are in play mode or not, our professional medical hats are never out of reach.

Thanks for potentially saving me again sweetheart.

Mashie