I´m living a nightmare.
By marguicha
@marguicha (215441)
Chile
March 22, 2018 12:40pm CST
Today I decided to clean part of my closet. And as I wanted to know what to take (if any) to the knee doctor, I started to throw away old tests and separate the others depending on the specialty of the doctors involved. I have been doing that for hours and although I have some folder with exams and tests and I have filled the garbage can with papers, I have a long way to go yet.
As some of the tests and exams are in an alien language, I decided to read online about them, what did they mean and the normal values. I just read about the ß2 microglobulin also known as B2M (I know more about it now) and discovered that the values of my tests were all normal so I can throw away all the papers with the results.
Now I will take some big folders with radiographies that are over my bed and I will take a nap. I deserve it.
Do you clean such things once in a while?
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@marguicha (215441)
• Chile
22 Mar 18
I also have CDs. But the blood tests come in paper.
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@marguicha (215441)
• Chile
22 Mar 18
@anikoonline I could print my sugar tests at home from my computer. There are only some tests that ask for the patient with an ID.
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@anikoonline (3250)
• Hungary
22 Mar 18
It is very modern. We can get our blood test via e-mail and I like this system because I don't have to go back to the hospital for the result. Unfortunately only a few hospitals offer this option.
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@RasmaSandra (73444)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
22 Mar 18
Don't have any stuff like that but glad you were able to clear yours up and also to find out you were alright.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
22 Mar 18
I have cleaned a lot of things out like that all gone in one day and never to come back ever.
Glad you got it sorted out.
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@marguicha (215441)
• Chile
23 Mar 18
@lovinangelsinstead21 We have to thank for our loss of memory. We would be too stressed if we remembered all those papers every day.
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@marguicha (215441)
• Chile
22 Mar 18
I´m still working on it. But I am looking at the amount of papers that I have thrown, rather than the amount of papers left to clean. I´m thinking positive 
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
23 Mar 18
@marguicha
Same goes for me and I have gotten through a huge amount of papers I had forgotten I had.
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@LeaPea2417 (36442)
• Toccoa, Georgia
22 Mar 18
Yes, I do and it is such a chore. I always put it off as long as I can.
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@marguicha (215441)
• Chile
22 Mar 18
I promise I will finish this tast. But after a nap.
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@kobesbuddy (74571)
• East Tawas, Michigan
22 Mar 18
Yes, about once a year we clean out our paperwork, to sort out what should be kept. It's quite a job, figuring which ones need to be thrown out.
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@marguicha (215441)
• Chile
22 Mar 18
I had kept medical exams for ages, ever since I was diagnosed with cancer. Now I decided that if everything is in a computer, I can throw away part of it all.
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@marguicha (215441)
• Chile
22 Mar 18
@kobesbuddy I still have some papers that I will have to throw away from my late husband´s business, now that you mention it. Maybe that should be the next cleanup.
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@kobesbuddy (74571)
• East Tawas, Michigan
22 Mar 18
@marguicha We had two home businesses. There were papers from every dime that we ever made or investments we made in our businesses. At the end of the year, everything had to be organized, for income tax purposes. Now, we don't have either business, so most of the paper work is garbage. After ten years, it is just taking up shelf space.
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@marguicha (215441)
• Chile
22 Mar 18
I have some results of blood tests that have a decade
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@GardenGerty (157551)
• United States
23 Mar 18
I do not do this as often as I should because as you say it is a nightmare.
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@marguicha (215441)
• Chile
23 Mar 18
I lost a paper that I need. This prompted me to do this cleaning and assorting. But if I don´t find it by tomorrow morning, I´ll go to plan B.
@allknowing (130064)
• India
23 Mar 18
So strange that I too was busy clearing old papers today.
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@marguicha (215441)
• Chile
23 Mar 18
@allknowing My friend @kobesbuddy just reminded me about other papers I have to check after I finish with these.
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@marguicha (215441)
• Chile
2 Apr 18
It is probably because they are free. Leticia does not get a copy of her free tests and exams but she has all the ones she has paid for.
@marguicha (215441)
• Chile
22 Mar 18
Here we don´t do the sort of spring cleaning that countries with harsh winters and snow do. We have to clean floors and windoews every day almost as dust is part of our lives.
@marguicha (215441)
• Chile
22 Mar 18
@MALUSE I live in a very polluted city. The city lies in a sort of hole between mountains. And the pollution from cars and industries smothers the city. Although it is forbidden to have fireplaces or to burn leaves, there is still more than enough to have something that is between smoke and fog.
@MALUSE (69413)
• Germany
22 Mar 18
@marguicha Where does the dust come from? Is there a desert nearby? Or do you always have strong winds?
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@Courtlynn (66921)
• United States
22 Mar 18
I don't keep things like that.. hope you have a good nap
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@marguicha (215441)
• Chile
22 Mar 18
@Courtlynn I did not have this amount of medical papers until I got cancer.
@Shiva49 (26202)
• Singapore
23 Mar 18
Xrays are supposed to be harmful but we are told to take all the time.
And then we have to discard them as it serves no purpose after a while.
We go through documents and clothes once in a while, normally when we have to move. and that has not happened for years now - siva
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@marguicha (215441)
• Chile
23 Mar 18
I want to do a big makeover of the house and I have to start by something.
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@anikoonline (3250)
• Hungary
22 Mar 18
A few years ago I collected all of my tests by the speciality of the illness (my bigger cathegories were the organs). It was a big job, but now it is much easier to get my medical portfolio and take the relevant tests to the doctor.
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@marguicha (215441)
• Chile
22 Mar 18
I´m doing that today. It seem that I will have to leave part of it for tomorrow.
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@anikoonline (3250)
• Hungary
23 Mar 18
@marguicha It will make your life easier in a long term!
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@marguicha (215441)
• Chile
23 Mar 18
@anikoonline I know. But you don´t know how quickly they pile up again.
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@Starmaiden (9311)
• Canada
24 Mar 18
I had to do that last month when I was packing to move. I had so many garbage bags full of useless "stuff" that I had thrown out some of the things I wanted to keep...like my vitamins, my headphones and my puffers. :-D
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@marguicha (215441)
• Chile
24 Mar 18
I have do to that with other things later on. But I started with radiographies, blood exams and the like first.
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@marguicha (215441)
• Chile
23 Mar 18
That´s what I did. They take a lot of space. Fortunately, now they put all that in a CD.
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@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
22 Mar 18
Yes I do for me but I keep all of Tony`s in case a doctor needs a copy.
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@marguicha (215441)
• Chile
22 Mar 18
That´s how I got hold of so many papers. Today I decided to throw a lot of the away, by date. The hospital has them all in their computers anyway.
@Jessabuma (31700)
• Baguio, Philippines
22 Mar 18
Yes me too. It's one of my habit
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