2007
open the till, give me the change
maura @ 8:57 pm
This morning I had my annual physical. I’d like to take this opportunity to give a shout out to my GP. She is awesome! She is super nice + always seems interested to talk with me. Of course she could be faking the interest, but still props to her for spending more than 3 minutes with a patient. I’m sure the insurance companies all hate her. She even gives patients her email address!
Also, she always has fun extra bonus items for me. Today it was a flu shot — a very nice surprise. I hadn’t even thought I’d be able to get one this year. Of course, now my arm feels like someone socked me, but I’m sure it’ll be better tomorrow.
Last year she offered me a combined tetanus + pertussis (whooping cough) booster, to which I said bring it on. Since I’m no longer an excavating archaeologist I don’t get the tetanus shots as often as I used to. Again: sore arm, but worth it, esp. since that pertussis resurgence last winter.
I think she’s a couple of years younger than I am, which always makes me think of the (first) time that I was on leave from archaeology and went to visit a post-baccalaureate pre-med program to see if I really wanted to go to medical school. Turns out the answer was no, and I’m pretty happy with that answer still. But sometimes I think about my alterna-self, the doctor. What is she doing now? Is she an orthopedic surgeon, because I have always been interested in bones? Or is she a GP, because they are always in short supply and get a wide variety of cases?
Likely she is very tired. Which, given the busy day I had and how tired I feel, makes me sad for her. Alterna-Maura, go to sleep!
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