Before you can answer the question, you need some background information.  The question is in regard to a conversation with a friend of mine, Austin.  She called last week and told me all about her physical symptoms.  She was unable to keep food down every time she ate.  She also stated that what was expelled appeared to have not been digested at all even though it had been 9 hours since she last ate.  She was thinking that she had no digestive juices.  My Fiancé and I were talking to her over speaker phone and since he is in nursing school he asked some questions that a nurse or doctor might ask while doing a complete medical history.  Since we know some medical background in regards to some of her lifestyle habits we advised that a doctor might advise her to stop taking so much Advil (she takes at least two 200 mg pills a day), eat a blander diet and try to sleep a regular schedule like 5-8 hours each night and try to lower her stress level.  She works full time, goes to school full time and has a son.  Her work schedule is sometimes days and sometimes nights so she frequently goes without sleep.  She advised she has a GI scheduled in the next few days.  She was going on and on about how it couldn’t be her lifestyle that is bringing on this symptom.  She pretty much argued everything we said.  I tried to explain that if she had no digestive juice i.e. no bile secretion then she probably would also be losing weight.  She has not lost any weight. 

Anyway so basically we told her if she took better care of herself then it would be easier for a doctor to pinpoint what is wrong, if anything.  She would have diminished or eliminated the effects of not sleeping, taking too much Advil, being over-stressed, over-worked and then if there was actually something wrong maybe a doctor could diagnose it.  Does no one else realize how gray the practice of medicine is?  Nothing is exact.  You don’t just visit a doctor and they know what is wrong.  Mostly they start with the most obvious and start eliminating until something fits.  I bet she did not tell her doctor about her poor life style choices when she went to scheduled the GI test. 

 So the day of the GI test came and went and I did not hear from her.  All this drama before the GI and she finally has the test and now she doesn’t call with the outcome?  She is like that though.  She will talk in circles about her dramas and then the next time I talk to her she won’t mention anything at all.  It is like pulling teeth trying to get her to tell me what was the resolution.  Anyway so today I bite.  Our conversation through text messages is as follows;

Me:  how was the doc appt?

Austin: ok he is putting me on two scripts and I have to go back next week.  How r u?

Me: what scripts? We r good here. Cept my cousin in hospital.  We will prolly visit her tonight.

Austin: medicines

Me: uh yea duh that is what scripts are.  If you don’t want to say what they are just say that you don’t want to tell me.  The evasiveness is unnecessary.  Anyway I hope they help.

Maybe I was a little too direct but it felt good to write it.  It felt good to just come out and say it.  She has me listen to her drama and she always tells the longest version of the story.  She can’t ever give me just the facts.  Any resolution I suggest she argues with me about.  And then after everything she resolves it her own way that I usually totally disagree with and that’s the 12% of the time that I even know how she resolved it.  Normally it’s like watching the whole season of an ongoing mystery show and then missing the last episode and thus missing how it all ended.  It makes it feel like such a waste, investing all that time in paying attention to the plot, scenery and characters and then just having a big question mark in your brain as to how it all ended.  Uneasy