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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?
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@jenniferhunter- Good afternoon Jennifer. I am familiar with most of your story and am really sorry that you had to endure so much growing up. Look at you now! You have overcome so much. I remember a long long time ago I had to have a tooth pulled. I have n idea which one. I hated my dentist. He was my mother's cousin and "old". My mom felt obliged because he was family. He pulled out, what I thought were pliers, put his hand on my chest and told me to open my mouth- and out came my tooth. I have blanked out any other visits I ever had with him. Until I had cancer I gagged every time I had to go to the dentist and bit my dentist on a couple of occasions.
Eventually he had to give me gas. Anyway I'm an excellent patient now but I can still see his office.
@pandakay727-Do you think that you can try to put your horrible situation in perspective and get help?
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@merpreb Thanks, Merry. You've had quite a story too. I'm sorry you went through so much. When I was little and got my first cavity, the dentist was an older guy too and had no patience for me. Now that I have a new perspective, it's interesting when my doctors are younger than me and when they love their jobs, it helps me be comfortable as a patient. I'm a good patient now too. I had to have a procedure with an oral surgeon at the time I was working on the painting for my Mayo surgeon and I took the painting into his office and showed him the work in progress and told him the story, and my oral surgeon liked it. He was so nice to me, that I did a portrait drawing for him. He came to one of my art shows last fall and brought his kids. That meant a lot to me. I think it meant a lot to him too. Everyone likes to be appreciated, and I think that positive interaction helps me get great care as a patient. Medical professionals can have very stressful jobs, and I as a patient can do something about that and it helps me too. I find that if I am engaged on a personal level with my doctors, it helps me because I can think about them as a person outside of their profession instead of focusing on the procedure that I need.