David,
You bring up a good point about clicking with your Doctor after all, this is going to be a long haul relationship.
As for myself, I can't say that my Doctor and I have clicked right off the bat. The truth is that I was dumped on him when my Diagnosing Doctor left the practice and moved away. Neither my Doctor nor myself had a choice in this matter and because he wasn't with me in the beginning and I was never sure that he wanted to take me on to begin with we have this awkward thing going on. Not only that, yesterday, he made a Freudian slip and referred to my cancer as being of the prostate!! Perhaps this is a sign:huh:
Anyway, I decided yesterday, that I would just hang it all out on line with him, and I started at the beginning of my story, over 8 years ago when I first saw a steady stream of blood falling into the toilet and got simply a clean catch at the Urology Clinic, told it WASN'T my bladder, and then go pooh poohed out of the Urology Clinic. I took my story up to the point of the diagnostic confusion over my pathology reports. I think he only understood half of what I was trying to say to him, but at least he listened. As I was leaving, I thanked him for letting me talk so thoroughly.
In my circumstance, I think it is going to take a while to really meet this Doctor face to face, so I've decided to hang in with him for the while. I'm starting to get the distinct impression, though, that his expertise is with the prostate
so this is something that I will need to consider in the future (in case of recurrance, which he said we would deal with "up front")
However, so far, so good, and no diasasters or anything...
I got the feeling yesterday that he just simply would like for me to let HIM be the Doctor in this relationship.
It sure is nice to talk this out here.
I love these new smilies....