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Just in case anyone was still worried that Otto never gets to play... *g*

Also, a quick whinge. Today was finally the day of my GP appointment, to ask about the stoopid headaches/allergies thing. How useful was he? Sooooo useless that I wanted to smack him around his smug little head. "I don't know anything about that," he said. "No, don't know anything about that..." ... "No, there aren't any useful tests, because that sort of thing is so idiosyncratic...." (fair enough, that's what I'd gathered - but then he carried on) "No, don't know anything about that..." Let me guess, you only do doctoring on properly serious things that cause people pain (as opposed to headaches that cause people pain and mean they struggle to work... oh, hang on!) Apparently, despite knowing nothing about it, he reckons my headaches are tension headaches, and not likely to be migraines or connected to dairy/gluten (though when I said "are you sure..." he wrote me a prescription for some migraine painkillers that he didn't think would work. I mean, wtf?!) Granted I had a late appointment, but make some effort, and don't just write prescriptions cos you think the patient wants one! Honestly, I've never had a GP appointment like it in all my puff... When I asked if there was anyone he could refer me to who did know something about it, he told me there was a dietitian at the main practice who people could see if they went and collected a food-diary thing for three days, and then handed it in... but I had to drag that information out of him, too, and I could tell he didn't think it'd be any use (perhaps because I'm imagining things?). I shall give that a go, but I can tell you one thing - I won't bother trying to see my "own" doctor again, I'll go back to picking someone randomly at the practice (in the hope of hitting a doctor with half a brain/a better bedside manner...) Gaargh!

Also, work was lousy today! Here's to happier Wednesdays!