back to normal?

[adrian_turtle]

I'm on hold with the hospital, waiting to pre-register for a routine but unpleasant EEG. As expected, they interrupt the music at intervals with announcements. Until very recently, any announcement in any remotely medical context was related to covid (get vaccinated, wear a mask, here's how to get tests). Maybe just "don't neglect other medical care because of covid; we can keep you safe."

Now they're just telling me how great the Mount Auburn Weight Loss Center is. Six. Times.

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[evalerie]

I hate enforced listening to advertising. Much sympathy!!

I hope the EEG goes well.

[redbird]

Oh dear.

[silveradept]

Ugggh. Not that it will change, but that seems like a good thing to complain about having to listen to for hold music, given how much it is potentially disturbing and the high likelihood of quackery involved.

[adrian_turtle]

Unfortunately, Mount Auburn Hospital is unlikely to believe that the Mount Auburn Weight Loss Center involves quackery. It's attached to the hospital, and involves their very own nutritionists and surgeons.

[adrian_turtle]

Thanks! The EEG went as well as such things ever do. I think the modern adhesive is easier to get out of my hair than the stuff they used in the 20th century.

[evalerie]

Cool!

When my son has EEGs, they put some kind of glue dissolver in his hair afterward, to help get the glue out. That seems to help!

[silveradept]

Fair. I suppose it would be equally as effective to go at it with the understanding that advertising these kinds of services to potential patients with conditions that would be exacerbated by having to listen to unhealthy messages about their body is not a good look for them, but it's probably better than 50-50 that they're okay with triggering those kinds of people.

[adrian_turtle]

My hair is not nearly as thick as it used to be, but it's now past my waist. Which makes it hard to get gunk out of it. I used some coconut oil into it, which is my current solution for removing sticky stuff. (My mom always threatened to use peanut butter, which apparently actually works, but when I was little and blew bubbles despite always having my hair in my fact I THOUGHT it would just make matters worse.)