When the doctor asked if I used medical marijuana, I was embarrassed to admit it.
- When he first asked, I wasn’t sure what he was getting at.
He made me feel like I was doing something wrong. I asked him if it mattered that I was using medical marijuana? He told me he needed to update my medical files, and part of that was the medicine I was taking. I told him I had been using medical marijuana for the past three years. He asked if I was using legal marijuana, and I told him yes. When he asked who the doctor was that prescribed medical marijuana, I refused to tell him. I knew who the doctor was, and he was sanctioned by our state, but I didn’t think it was my doctor’s business. He told me he had to know why I was using medical marijuana and if it helped. I still thought he was being nosey, but I told him it was for my rheumatoid arthritis. Before I started using medical marijuana, my rheumatologist told me I would be in a wheelchair by the time I was forty. I didn’t even know I had arthritis until she said that. I thought the aches and pains were because of the job I did eight hours a day, and taking care of three babies and a home. With the help of medical marijuana, I could keep moving, the pain was bearable, and I was in a better mind frame. I was probably the only patient he had, that used medical marijuana.
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