Even though it would be nice to have a college degree right now, surprisingly enough I wouldn't go back and change my flunking out after two years because of not switching my major when I had the chance. Yes, if I had switched early on I probably would have graduated. But, I wouldn't have the friends I have now, folks who have stuck with me through thick and thin and everything in between. Heck, I might not be on LJ, or have gotten into various fandoms without some of those folks, would've missed out on the friends I've made at MARCON and other places. And there's lessons in learning to ask for help when I need it that I wouldn't have learned. So while some would think I'd change my failed college career, I wouln't.
What I would change though, is my not going ahead and getting tests run by another doctor or specialist for hypothyroidism several years ago (long before my current job) after that stupid quack in Greenville told me that my only problem was that I needed to lose weight, totally dismissing the symptoms I'd mentioned simply because I'd never been pregnant. Not to mention his failing to consider that perhaps I'd already been trying to lose weight for YEARS with little success. Which I had been.
Most likely if I hadn't listened to him, I could've been tested by somebody else and have been diagnosed with PCOS several years before I eventually was, and hopefully been taken as seriously as I have been by the doctors I've seen up here in Durham. May not would have staved off the hypothyroidism that I did also eventually develop (and hey Doctor QUACK, I've STILL never been pregnant!), but getting the PCOS diagnosis earlier and getting help for it would've spared me years of continued pain.
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Date: 2011-06-30 09:59 pm (UTC)What I would change though, is my not going ahead and getting tests run by another doctor or specialist for hypothyroidism several years ago (long before my current job) after that stupid quack in Greenville told me that my only problem was that I needed to lose weight, totally dismissing the symptoms I'd mentioned simply because I'd never been pregnant. Not to mention his failing to consider that perhaps I'd already been trying to lose weight for YEARS with little success. Which I had been.
Most likely if I hadn't listened to him, I could've been tested by somebody else and have been diagnosed with PCOS several years before I eventually was, and hopefully been taken as seriously as I have been by the doctors I've seen up here in Durham. May not would have staved off the hypothyroidism that I did also eventually develop (and hey Doctor QUACK, I've STILL never been pregnant!), but getting the PCOS diagnosis earlier and getting help for it would've spared me years of continued pain.
Stupid
quackdoctor.