Thanks-- respect is rare.
Even common courtesy is rare.... as the bus driver loaded me a woman
in a jeep looked up and shot me an angry look as she squeezed by. I
said aloud, geeze, before you crossed the street you could see the
bus here, you couldn't have gone one block over in either direction
to get where you're going!
The bus driver laughed and said the rudest people in the world live here.
I understand impatience, i was impatient, but never like this. this
town is five minutes long and versus risking something and squeezing
by, I would either waited or detoured.
Hi,
I think i love this guy-- who SHOOK MY HAND
He treated you with respect and as an individual. That is
something a lot of dr's don't do. I am so happy for you. Hopefully
things will get much better for you.
Cheryl
--- On Wed, 10/6/10, Akua <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Akua <[email protected]>
Subject: [TMIC] Dr. Visit Brings Hope
To: [email protected]
Date: Wednesday, October 6, 2010, 3:17 PM
This is the first time in 4 years that I have spoken to a medical
professional who understood
everything, it seemed.
Let's begin with access: his nursed pushed me along the carpet ---
carpet is a shoulder buster and most folks just watch me ache and
struggle.
His office had a table that i could transfer to. First one I've seen
in four years.
He ordered tests no one had suggested:
bone density
pulmonary function
ultrasound of kidneys
because sitting in a char affects all of these
He's WORKING ON GETTING ME AN IN HOME THERAPIST
When i pulled out the STANDER literature he praised me-- yes that
was something he envisioned me using to prevent osteo_____ something.
I told him about the Flexiciser, he waited for me to follow him
(uber points for that, too, treating me
like I am a grown up who can go from point a to b) and showed me
something VERY similar,
a leg moving machine.
Then show me the heated hydro therapy pool that i could lowered
into--- if i could get transport there, which i can't with
regularity SOOOOOOOOO he said our goal is to get me driving
and help me transfer into my car....
Why don't all doctors have dentist chair type tables? In that they
go low enough for someone
from a wheelchair could possibly get on.
He said where we are is backwards and that he had brought that table with him.
I think i love this guy-- who SHOOK MY HAND.
which just reminded me how i have not been treated well at all, but
maybe this time
I can really be on the road to help and healing.
He praised me and celebrated me saying he was delighted to have a
patient who was motivated.
He had read my file and knew i was a vegetarian and fodd conscious
and so understood my desire
to lose weight was about raising metabolism, not telling me about
not eating stuff that hasn't touched my lips for 40 years.
I left with 3 appointments already set up for me--- this has never
happened before....
my last blood test was at my OWN insistence. I think I've found a
REAL DOCTOR.
My bus driver, who I like a lot (but hadn't been getting because his
firm declined
medical rides for a time) knew this doctor and also praised him.
Akua
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