My Mom had a Doctor’s appointment yesterday and never left Ridge. In fact she didn’t even have to get out of her bed as you can see here in this photo taken by Nancy Dominiak.
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| My Sister Lila and Mom on Phone With Dr. Gill |
Note: This was Mom’s second televisit with Dr. Gill and as with the first one it too went well. Mom fell last week and spent a day in the hospital before being discharged to home. This was a followup visit with Dr. Gill to see how she is doing. (Her first televisit with Dr. Gill followed another fall that she had had the week before last.)
While Mom’s televisit was due to Dr. Gill not doing any office visits currently due to the virus, I had encountered a medical televisit pre-virus courtesy of my Buzzy friend Bruce.
Bruce was in the Store one Sunday afternoon with phone in hand and explained that he was on hold with urgent care to discuss a tick bite with them. He was number 7 on their wait list and noted that this was the way a doctor visit should be – sitting at Buzzy’s drinking a beer while waiting to be seen. And yes, as far as I know Bruce was the first Buzzy televisit that I know of.
Needless to say I am a big fan of these televisits. No trips to the Shah Building in Hollywood; no sitting around in a waiting room with a bunch of sick and mostly miserable other folks; no being called back (finally!) only to sit around in a very small room awaiting for the Doctor to see you eventually; and no having to deal with Mom throughout all this wait wondering “Why are they taking so long.” Mom has no patience for this sort of thing. (Recall my post where she once told the nurse after we had been waiting a couple minutes in the to-be-seen-room, that she was 88 years old and did not want to spend what little time she had left here on earth waiting around to see a doctor. The doctor came in to see her a few minutes later. I’m going to file that line away and maybe use it some day when I’m in that same situation. Hope I live long enough to do so. (Ultimately though I am hoping that doctor televisits become what seems to be our latest buzz word – the “new normal.”)
Have you seen those Facebook 10 albums one a day exercises where folks list their top ten favorite albums? If I were to attempt such a list, the Stones’ Aftermath album would definitely be one of my selections. It came to mind just now as I tried to think of songs involving the subject of waiting. I Am Waiting was on Aftermath but it didn’t get much notoriety nor airplay as did other Aftermath songs such as Mother’s Little Helper, Paint it Black, Under My Thumb and Stupid Girl. (My favorite song on Aftermath was Out of Time which for some reason wasn’t even included on the US version of the album.)
Here then is the soundtrack that plays in my head whenever I am, you know, waiting for someone to come out of somewhere. 