Emily65Roses
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My doc now, I've bragged about a hundred times... Here's one of the reasons why:
He said the coolest thing to me once a year ago. And I don't think I've ever heard it come out of a doctor's mouth before, especially not a CF doc. When discussing what to do about how I'd been feeling (not so good... vomiting several times a week from coughing fits, etc), he said "Well, your PFTs are actually up from last time, so your numbers are pretty good." That I've heard a million times from CF docs. Then he said the magic words that will make me adore him as my CF doc forever, "But numbers aren't as important as how you feel." Then he tapered off into what we should do, what meds to take, etc. I just love that he said that! Most CF docs, if I complain about how I feel, and I have good PFTs, they just pull out the paper and say "But look at your numbers!" like I'm supposed to be impressed. McArdle actually said how I feel is more important than my PFT numbers, and I fell for him that very moment. Haha, not really, of course. But he's great, I really like him.
On top of that, whenever I see him, he brings a student, a resident, and intern. Someone new (Yale = teaching hospital). Every time he brings in one of these new people, he always asks me if I can pull up the back of my shirt (my rose and mutation names) and take my shoe off (the salt). He LOVES showing off my tattoos. It is seriously the funniest thing ever. He's done it at least 3 times in the past year. I love him, he's fantastic.
I wrote this in another thread recently, but I'm going to elaborate now. One time I was inpatient at Yale Children's. Mike stayed with me the whole time. We were 18 and 20 at the time, so we were adults, even if in a children's hospital. We ordered lots of food, pizza, Chinese, etc. One night when we ordered Chinese, it was late. We asked my nurse if she could go down and get it once the time came, because the elevators "lock" (you have to know the combination) after hours. Time came, and she was busy as hell. So instead, she wrote down the elevator combination on a piece of paper and gave it to Mike and he went to get our food. I will ALWAYS remember her, because she could've gotten into big trouble for doing that. On top of that, we asked for a "do not disturb" sign, because though we were in a children's hospital, we were both adults. She laughed her head off. She told us she'd be the only one coming in for the next few hours, so we should close the curtain and shut the door, and she wouldn't come back again until the curtain and door were re-opened. She also told me at that point she had had a brother with CF. And he always used to pull similar sh*t like that in the hospital. She said I reminded her a lot of him, and I will always remember that, because it made me feel very good.
Those are the only ones I can think of worth sharing this instant.
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He said the coolest thing to me once a year ago. And I don't think I've ever heard it come out of a doctor's mouth before, especially not a CF doc. When discussing what to do about how I'd been feeling (not so good... vomiting several times a week from coughing fits, etc), he said "Well, your PFTs are actually up from last time, so your numbers are pretty good." That I've heard a million times from CF docs. Then he said the magic words that will make me adore him as my CF doc forever, "But numbers aren't as important as how you feel." Then he tapered off into what we should do, what meds to take, etc. I just love that he said that! Most CF docs, if I complain about how I feel, and I have good PFTs, they just pull out the paper and say "But look at your numbers!" like I'm supposed to be impressed. McArdle actually said how I feel is more important than my PFT numbers, and I fell for him that very moment. Haha, not really, of course. But he's great, I really like him.
On top of that, whenever I see him, he brings a student, a resident, and intern. Someone new (Yale = teaching hospital). Every time he brings in one of these new people, he always asks me if I can pull up the back of my shirt (my rose and mutation names) and take my shoe off (the salt). He LOVES showing off my tattoos. It is seriously the funniest thing ever. He's done it at least 3 times in the past year. I love him, he's fantastic.
I wrote this in another thread recently, but I'm going to elaborate now. One time I was inpatient at Yale Children's. Mike stayed with me the whole time. We were 18 and 20 at the time, so we were adults, even if in a children's hospital. We ordered lots of food, pizza, Chinese, etc. One night when we ordered Chinese, it was late. We asked my nurse if she could go down and get it once the time came, because the elevators "lock" (you have to know the combination) after hours. Time came, and she was busy as hell. So instead, she wrote down the elevator combination on a piece of paper and gave it to Mike and he went to get our food. I will ALWAYS remember her, because she could've gotten into big trouble for doing that. On top of that, we asked for a "do not disturb" sign, because though we were in a children's hospital, we were both adults. She laughed her head off. She told us she'd be the only one coming in for the next few hours, so we should close the curtain and shut the door, and she wouldn't come back again until the curtain and door were re-opened. She also told me at that point she had had a brother with CF. And he always used to pull similar sh*t like that in the hospital. She said I reminded her a lot of him, and I will always remember that, because it made me feel very good.
Those are the only ones I can think of worth sharing this instant.
So, as was the case with the other thread, SHARE! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0">