January 18, 2008
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I’m in Rehab…for Steroids
Have I got your attention? LOL. Remember when I fired my doctor a few months ago? It all stemmed from him not authorizing a refill for some psoriasis cream I needed to clear up some mild red spots on my scalp. He had prescribed it years ago, and since I hadn’t been in to see him in a while, he refused to refill the prescription until I made an appointment. As I was about to leave on a trip, I told him I would come in when I got back. That wasn’t good enough though, and being a greedy corporate bastard (he had recently joined a large medical conglomerate), he wouldn’t budge, so I got rid of him.
Fast forward to now. For the past few months I’ve been squeezing what I could out of several of the old tubes of medicine I had left. It seemed to do the trick up until recently when the redness wasn’t going away. Since I switched health insurance companies on January 1st, I finally made an appointment with a dermatologist. The office was in Beverly Hills, and when the doctor walked in, he looked like he was right out of central casting (as it turns out, he’s CNN’s “dermatology/botox consultant”). LOL:
He tells me his specialty is more “cosmetic”, so he was going to send in his associate, Dr. Saghari:
She comes in (like she’s just walked off a catwalk…gorgeous) and asks me what I’ve been using on my scalp. I tell her, and her jaw drops. She goes on to tell me that the cream I had been prescribed by my old doctor, was the strongest steroid cream they have for psoriasis, and that it should never be used on the face or scalp. “How long have you been using it?”, she asked. “Five years”, I replied. “You don’t have psoriasis anymore” she said, “You have steroid rosacea!” She goes on to say that my skin had become addicted to the steroid cream, and that she would have to wean me off of it. She told me it would likely get worse, before it got better.
My reply? “So what you’re telling me Doc is…
You say my scalp should go to rehab
I said no, no, no.
Yes it’s been a little red, but when I come back
You wont know, know, know.I ain’t got the time
And if my daddy thinks im fine
He’s tried to make me go to rehab
I wont go, go, go.
So she prescribed some non-steroid creams…and here I am. There goes my baseball career!
I had to babysit for Tressa tonight…and we had fun hamming it up. American Idols eat your heart out!
Comments (9)
Actually the Northern Lights picture is a painting. It is called Winter Spirits. Judi
love the vid – she’s ALMOST as cute as Susan, but then again, i’m prejudice – lol. so, shall we call you muscle head now? – gotta love those doctors today! peace, Al
really? whoa! good thing you finally went to see a dermatologist. imagine if you didn’t, maybe it’ll take you 5 years more before you finally get rid of the steriods stuff.
Sounds ….bad. It’s that mean you would be itching for those steriod cream?
mm…seems I’ve been always turning my blind eyes to you, Mr Muscular :) Anyway, it’s so sweet when you guys singing~
ryc: it’s also so sweet to read it. I am fine, terribly occupied by work at this moment, well, at least for the whole coming week. Then I know I really gotta deal with it. I should be ok, thx mate
hahahahaha. i smell lawsuit.
anyway.. RYC: i dont think i know a Yun… but if you’re referring to Yul, then the answer is no; he’s not gay. Sorry to disappoint.
Besides… he would’ve been mine first. 
HAHAHAHA. just kidding.
Yeah, the female doctor’s pretty hot for an old woman.
Random : Damn, Well hope you get better.
Steroids? Hey, this is unfair! I blog without steroids. So that’s why some of your entries are just gigantic! hahaha….