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Show 52 The receptionist at my doctor's office thankfully does not seem concerned or even upset that we have come, unannounced, at the end of her working day. She listens respectfully to my concern and goes into the back rooms presumably to confer with the doctor. She is coming around the comer to open the door and I wheel back into an examining room with Hy following behind me. "When did this start" the doctor is asking. I do not know him well but I do like the thoroughness of his care that I have observed at past visits. I tell him how I first noticed the pain and he is flexing my leg and pulling my heel down, bending my toes upwards. He pushes my blue jeans up to my knees on both legs and compares my right calf to my left calf. He looks from one to the other and back again. "This may not be anything at all, but to be on the safe side, I'm going to send you over to the hospital for an ultrasound to that right leg." He summons his receptionist to notify them of my imminent arrival. The hospital is right next to his office and it is quicker and easier to just wheel over there in my chair. Hy walks beside me. "It would be nice to have a break," he is saying with a cracking voice and I cannot help but agree. I haveonly been released from the hospital for one week now. He is thinking of how to feed and tend and love the children alone once again while I am dreading the possibility of perhaps being readmitted to a stiff bed and tan walls. |