Yo estoy esperando la lluvia.

I love the anticipation when we call for a new patient, and then getting to see the story that they have for us. Some are quite characters; others hardly talk and the whole consult lasts about 4 minutes, but most are in between. Here's a few stories that make me smile.

A young boy came to our office with his mom, you could tell that he was of the ornery sort. At one point of the consult I was writing out a prescription for the boy while the doctora was taking time to explain some techniques and guidelines to help him. She listed off some foods that he should try to avoid, chocolate was one of them. At that point I looked up to see the normally fidgety boy sitting still with his eyes buggin out of his head. He slowly turned to his mom, and in an almost whisper said, "I can't have chocolate?" Poor kid! What a tragedy that would be...no chocolate!!??!

Another young boy we had visit our office came with his mom and his older brother. While the boy with a wart on his finger kept staring at us playing at the front of the doctora's desk, his brother preferred to hide behind their mom squeezing himself between his mom's chair and the wall. Due to the mom's conviction that liquid medications haven't helped the disappearance of the wart in question, but at the same time the doctora's dislike for surgically removing warts at such an age the conversation was going back and forth for awhile each explaining their reasoning. While the doctora explained the process of surgical removal we heard a sudden sob and noticed that while the patient was still as happy as before his older brother was obviously not with huge tears rolling down his cheeks. Poor kid was clearly scared. Without trying to, he had probably helped the doctora convince the mom to try a liquid medications one more time.

One last patient I want to comment on, is the bravest I've seen in our office so far, a small 9 year old girl. She did have some warts removed. She did not flinch, nor even blink an eye. Even if they aren't hurt by it, the sound of the cauterizer normally causes the patients to flinch at least, but she stayed even more still. I was very impressed!

Hasta!