My AT&T iPhone Dependably SUCKS!!

By Bev Feldman

I am driving to a job this am... it's a big commercial.  (I work in the entertainment business.)  I am listening to my car radio, KPCC/NPR to a call-in show, where a patient advocate (publicizing her book) is talking about whether or not one should question an MD's diagnosis.  Well, having experienced my daughter being serially misdiagnosed by 24 different doctors, I have strong opinions about parents advocating for their child and insisting upon a diagnosis that fits ALL of the symptoms, not just the ones they can make into individual diseases.  It's a stand that can make you unpopular with doctors.  Too bad.

 I get out my AT&T iPhone and call the station.  I talk to the screening guy, who really loves the angle of a parent advocating on behalf of their child and so he moves me to the front of queue.  I'm next!!!  I am so excited!  I have fire in the belly: I'm going to have the chance to talk about the misdiagnoses of Lyme Disease in Southern California!  The information I give out will raise awareness and will literally save lives!

No it won't.

My AT&T iPhone dependably drops the call.  I am sputtering.  I  am apoplectic!   I yell in my car.  I pound the steering wheel!  I get to the set, and I throttle the first unfortunate production assistant I can find.  I tell him that I know he doesn't know me, but I need him to do me a very big favor and just LISTEN to me vent for 2 minutes.  I do, and he kindly listens.  I am better.  I probably won't kill anyone.

I grab my equipment cart and roll into the stage to do my part on a big commercial for...  AT&T.