Politically correct way to term things

[bostonlass]

politically correct way to term things

I tend to talk to my GI specialist at work and I work in a cube farm so everyone and their mother can hear all about my gastric distress on a daily basis. I'd like to preserve some sort of dignity so I was wondering when I talk to him this week how to phrase the following symptoms:

• my breath smells and actually tastes like ass
• when i poop it's like an actual explosion each time
• when i wipe now i see red blood. not enough and not everytime but it's there today.

Thanks!

 

[farm]

LOL that is exactly how *I* would word it to my GI, but he expects that from me!!
I'm sure Peaches or IMP can help you with this but here is my best:
1. I seem to have very bad halitosis from a seemingly sour stomach?
2. When my bowels move, it is very violent.
3. After a bowel movement I have noticted different amounts of blood on the tissue. Red blood as if from a cut.

 

[beth]

All the cube farms I've worked in we had meeting rooms so if I needed privacy for a phone call I just wandered into a free one and made the call.

 

[bostonlass]

LOL that is exactly how *I* would word it to my GI, but he expects that from me!!
I'm sure Peaches or IMP can help you with this but here is my best:
1. I seem to have very bad halitosis from a seemingly sour stomach?
2. When my bowels move, it is very violent.
3. After a bowel movement I have noticted different amounts of blood on the tissue. Red blood as if from a cut.

lol @ violent but that's a nice way to put it!!! Thanks!

 

[farm]

Oh yeah, I'm here to help lol!

 

[bostonlass]

All the cube farms I've worked in we had meeting rooms so if I needed privacy for a phone call I just wandered into a free one and made the call.

Normally that's the case here too but we're currently under audit so our conference rooms are pretty full these days. Maybe I'll try the stairwell, though he calls me direct on my line here at work and lord knows if I ask him if I can call back I"ll probably have to wait another day to get in touch with him. He's not that available at all unfortunately.

 

[Guest]

hi Bostonlass, & welcome to the forum. you'll probably find that the consultant gets to ask you the relevant questions he needs answers to... i'm sure you'll be just fine in explaining how things are when it comes to it.

i have to ask.. what is a cube farm? i didn't know you could grow cubes

 

[katiesue1506]

Ding I didn't know what it was either...and it bugged me... so I sat here and pondered it. Can't be a cultural term because Beth is on your side of the pond and bostonlass on mine... and then I pictured a bunch of cubes...

is it a slang term for an office with cubicles?! Do I win?

 

[Guest]

well i wondered about cubicles too.... but the only cubicle i know is a toilet one, so that's probably not it.... lol

 

[farm]

Ding I didn't know what it was either...and it bugged me... so I sat here and pondered it. Can't be a cultural term because Beth is on your side of the pond and bostonlass on mine... and then I pictured a bunch of cubes...

is it a slang term for an office with cubicles?! Do I win?

You win!

 

[Guestly]

how about this...

Hi, yes the vehicle is having some issues which |I would like you to consider at the next overhaul...

The air vent appears to have a gaseous exchange problem and is giving off an unpleasant odour which one can even taste while driving, further more the exhaust is spluttering very badly, and back firing, and then leaving terrible red stains on the drive way... Yes, I am calling from my office doctor, and yes it is very crowded at the moment....

 

[imisspopcorn]

Bostonlass,
I hear you...You don't want/ need everyone hearing your business....Wow I don't know how you can get your point across and be discreet at the same time.
Can he call you on your cell so you can get up and find private place?

 

[bostonlass]

how about this...

Hi, yes the vehicle is having some issues which |I would like you to consider at the next overhaul...

The air vent appears to have a gaseous exchange problem and is giving off an unpleasant odour which one can even taste while driving, further more the exhaust is spluttering very badly, and back firing, and then leaving terrible red stains on the drive way... Yes, I am calling from my office doctor, and yes it is very crowded at the moment....

OMG just almost had massive explosion reading this!!!!!!! lol!!!:ylol2:

 

[bostonlass]

Bostonlass,
I hear you...You don't want/ need everyone hearing your business....Wow I don't know how you can get your point across and be discreet at the same time.
Can he call you on your cell so you can get up and find private place?

I'll ask him the next time I talk to him. Really though if I call any day but Tuesday I don't hear from him again till the next Tuesday. It's extremely frustrating. I'm able to email my pcp via a patient gateway system so I first had tried her to see if she could give me a script for zofran. I had a couple leftover from last year when I had my gallbladder out and it really worked for my nauseau today. I mean I'm still nauseous but it's down by about 70% I"d day. She replied stating that I need to pose all questions to my GI specialist. This is sooo confusing because normally if I need medication I'm told to go to my pcp. I wish they'd all just get together in one room and sort everything out, you know?

 

[Guestly]

Sorry Boston Lass - would hate to be the cause of a deterioration with your motor problems!

If it's any consolation I just had a similar conversation on the phone. I thought I had been smart by stepping into a courtyard just off our staff room (I work in a school). Unfortunately I had failed to notice that the courtyard is flanked by the school library which had all it's windows open, and was of course extremely quiet. I on the other hand was shouting because I had bad reception, and talking at length about the fact that my farts take a detour (rectovaginal fistula)... how classy... now all the kids know that "Miss" can't control which route her farts take... next time I shall be telling him about the emissions problem with my exhaust backflowing into the main engine circuit and venting through the sunroof...

 

[imisspopcorn]

Sorry Boston Lass - would hate to be the cause of a deterioration with your motor problems!

If it's any consolation I just had a similar conversation on the phone. I thought I had been smart by stepping into a courtyard just off our staff room (I work in a school). Unfortunately I had failed to notice that the courtyard is flanked by the school library which had all it's windows open, and was of course extremely quiet. I on the other hand was shouting because I had bad reception, and talking at length about the fact that my farts take a detour (rectovaginal fistula)... how classy... now all the kids know that "Miss" can't control which route her farts take... next time I shall be telling him about the emissions problem with my exhaust backflowing into the main engine circuit and venting through the sunroof...

Ohh Lishyloo....:ylol2: That is the best metaphor ever!!!

 

[beth]

rofl!! :ylol2: :ylol2: :ylol2: :ylol2:

(yup, a cube farm is an open plan office with lots of partitions high to give you enough privacy to pick your nose whilst seated... - kind of how I think of them. Hateful. all the worst bits of an open plan office combined with the isolation of separate offices and there lack of communication)