Monday, May 30, 2005
And another one
Darn the cough syrup! It always makes me a little loopy, and apparently posty as well!
This is a story I was telling my friend Kielle in response to an observation she made about the infamous Runaway Bride and her "deer in the headlights" look.
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I was a single mom living with two very young kids (hadn't hooked up with the clone yet) and since childcare was pretty much impossible to score if you had one still in diapers, we were all on ADFC/Medicaid.
So my appointment was at a clinic in a teaching hospital, with a noob learning his trade. Fair enough, someone has to help them get a start. But he visibly started the second he looked me in the face, and started firing off questions about headaches, blurry vision and other scary symptoms. Specifically, he demanded to know if my eyes had "always been like that?!?!"
So he rushed out to find his instructor, leaving me with heart palpitations and wondering what to name my future guide dog. He came back in with an older, calmer doc who looked me over and clarified the question. My lower eyelids do not come up to touch the bottom of my iris, leaving a thin gap of the "whites" showing any time my eyes are open. If it wasn't something new and sudden, we had no worries. I said that so far as I could tell, never having paid much attention to it before, that was how my eyes always looked. "Lucky," the suave older doc observed. "They say it's one reason Liz Taylor is famous for her beautiful eyes...hers are the same way." (Go Google up some pix of her--it's true!)
So the baby doc came back to finish the exam. He seemed a little disappointed he wasn't going to get to write up an interesting case. "I thought you had...(I don't remember what it was), which can be serious. But you don't need to worry," he added, almost patting my head with his superior tone, "it's only a congential variance."
"Oh, thank goodness," I replied, trying for my best innocent look to better deliver the Subtle Smackdown du Jour. "I was afraid you were going to say it was something weird that had been wrong with me since I was born."
This is a story I was telling my friend Kielle in response to an observation she made about the infamous Runaway Bride and her "deer in the headlights" look.
***
I was a single mom living with two very young kids (hadn't hooked up with the clone yet) and since childcare was pretty much impossible to score if you had one still in diapers, we were all on ADFC/Medicaid.
So my appointment was at a clinic in a teaching hospital, with a noob learning his trade. Fair enough, someone has to help them get a start. But he visibly started the second he looked me in the face, and started firing off questions about headaches, blurry vision and other scary symptoms. Specifically, he demanded to know if my eyes had "always been like that?!?!"
So he rushed out to find his instructor, leaving me with heart palpitations and wondering what to name my future guide dog. He came back in with an older, calmer doc who looked me over and clarified the question. My lower eyelids do not come up to touch the bottom of my iris, leaving a thin gap of the "whites" showing any time my eyes are open. If it wasn't something new and sudden, we had no worries. I said that so far as I could tell, never having paid much attention to it before, that was how my eyes always looked. "Lucky," the suave older doc observed. "They say it's one reason Liz Taylor is famous for her beautiful eyes...hers are the same way." (Go Google up some pix of her--it's true!)
So the baby doc came back to finish the exam. He seemed a little disappointed he wasn't going to get to write up an interesting case. "I thought you had...(I don't remember what it was), which can be serious. But you don't need to worry," he added, almost patting my head with his superior tone, "it's only a congential variance."
"Oh, thank goodness," I replied, trying for my best innocent look to better deliver the Subtle Smackdown du Jour. "I was afraid you were going to say it was something weird that had been wrong with me since I was born."
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