Life in the Fast Lane
I have not enjoyed attending doctor appointments a lone. It is not so bad when the subject of the doctor's visit is my own body. I can deal with that. What I haven't been able to stomach very well are the doctor appointments where I receive some unusual news about a child. The next time I find myself in the position to review test results about a child while I am alone sitting across from a physician, I am going to wear a sign. The sign will hang from my neck with yarn or string, doesn't really matter, and display a large HEART. If it were possible I would somehow show the heart beating and then of course the words "FRAGILE--HANDLE with CARE" embellished above the heart. I don't know if this would help or not, but I'm willing to try anything to soften the blow. When I received the news last summer that one of my daughters "Might be in a vegetative state" someday, if I did not find the proper medicine, I stumbled out of that office and hyper...