aibu to be a little proud of myself and moreso of my db?

[NoSharon]

So myself and db are close in that I tell him everything, but we're not close in that we meet up a lot or anything like that. Mainly because he lives on another continent.

So earlier today, he mentioned that he was going to teach medical students (he's a doctor - well a professor). I just said 'teach them well'. His response when he came back from his teaching session was that he mentioned ME and my experiences with the healthcare system and that their homework was to speak to their friend and family about positive and negative experiences of doctors!

I know I'm just an unmentioned guinea pig, but it means he was hearing me when I thought nobody was listening! I'm famous!!! I doubt he disclosed that it was his sister he was talking about, but I think it's quite cool of him to have taken on board what I've said to him (misdiagnosed a few times because they wouldn't listen to me).

His lecture was apparently about diagnosing privileged and underprivileged. Not quite happy that I'm in the underprivileged class, but glad that he has chosen to try to teach doctors that.

He said he used a few examples from my experiences in his lecture. So all these medical students are now going to be looking out for lunatics like me!! Well in North America lol.

He probably used examples of me swearing and discharging myself lol. God only knows. But now I'm going to be nicer to doctors. Because I know they do try!

It’s always reassuring to know that medical education is going in the rught direction

God only knows what examples he has used!

There was one occasion where I was admitted to Resus and then put onto A&E. Doctor came to me at 6am and said, you can go home, you're fine. I said I'm really not fine, I'm weak, I can't stand without fainting, I'm feeling sick, I'm not well enough to go home. Doctor repeats to me, your bloods are fine. So I asked him what was my magnesium? He tootled off, never said a word to me and suddenly I was put on a magnesium drip. I could quite probably have died if I had just gone home. I ended up in hospital for 8 days.

I suppose that's one of the examples db is using. Where I was trying to tell them that I'm not well enough to go home, but COMPUTER SAYS NO.

The only reason why I knew to ask what my magnesium level was because db had mentioned it to me a few days previously.