doctor... doctor...

i believe my doctor thinks i'm stupid...

to be fair, he's not really "my doctor". I had a doctor i liked who was my RegularDoctor for 2+ years before the selfish bitch decided to pursue her husband's dream job on the EastCoast and abandon me here without a doctor. Since then i've gone to the Medical Clinics where you didn't require an appointment, and they round robin a doctor who's available to see you from a handful of them staffed at the clinic - after a 10 minute wait in the waiting room but a total combined 3 hours in the inside waiting room.

i walked in, after my coworkers decided my coughing is annoying them enough to tell me i need to please go see a doctor to fix me. the doctor asked a few questions, listened to my breathing, asked my thoughts on the subject, and then guesstimated that since i *may* have allergies to something not-yet-identified. he put me on a 15 minute treatment breathing through an apparatus where they put medicine in the filter.
when the doctor came back to check on me 20 minutes later my arm to fingers were numb - he tells me i didn't need to in/exhale with so much effort that i almost hyperventilated myself.

in the end he prescribed Albuterol inhaler for the *possible allergy* i *may* have but also an inhaler tube - what is typically prescibed to children. i guess he figured that i needed extra help in case i didn't know how to work the inhaler or that i may hyperventilate myself with the inhaler at home.