@phoneboy That's unacceptable. Borderline malpractice, even. He should at least call in a prescription that will get you through until he can see you.
If he won't, find another doctor.
// @matigo
@matigo Not to give you more information than you require, but poor circulation related to diabetes can lead to loss of leg hair.
// @kdfrawg @gtwilson
@gtwilson I archived a lot of stuff in .sxw and .odt files, which worked out well. Sounds counterintuitive, but the worst-case scenario is you change the extension to .zip and unzip it. The plain text is in there. Can't do that with .doc.
// @matigo @kdfrawg
@kdfrawg I've found that Open Office/Libre Office can often open old .doc files that Word balks at.
// @matigo @gtwilson
@kdfrawg
SCENE: ANCIENT ARCHIVES
"Captain…"
"Yes, what is it, Spock?"
"It appears I am unable to read this document, Captain. It is in an archaic format called Microsoft Works."
"Bones, can you get a tricorder reading?"
"Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a miracle worker!"
// @matigo @gtwilson
@kdfrawg Not cowboys so much as well-armed redneck mountain people, who decided that I was OK because 1) I knew Doug the sheetrock guy and 2) I punched up some Charlie Daniels on the jukebox.
// @gtwilson
@gtwilson I know a place like that in the mountains of northern New Mexico. If I hadn't gone in with a friend who's a local (and who at the time was the guy who delivered sheetrock to them in the dead of winter when their roofs leaked), I wouldn't have gone in unless it was at gunpoint (which looked somewhat likely). Once there, it was cool and I had a great time, but it was the kind of place where you walk in and the music stops and everyone looks at you.
// @kdfrawg
@kdfrawg For me, it's somewhere just past the bottom of the Conejo Grade, when I start driving across the Oxnard Plain towards the ocean.
// @gtwilson