It Always Happens To The Best People

I spent quite a bit of time searching for a doctor that I really liked. After we moved when I was a child we could no longer go to the same doctor, unless we wanted to travel what seemed like a billion miles to get to him. In all actuality, it took an hour to get to him, but it was still a long ways away.

So on went the search for a good doctor. I've been to a few doctors since then. I left for many different reasons: one was pompous, a few made you feel like you were the next person giving them their paychecks and had to scoot patients in and out as fast as possible, one particular doc was just plain out a complete bi*%&.

So I finally got a referral from my supervisor at one of my jobs. She really made him seem like the best thing that there was. She was completely right.

This doctor is the best doc I've ever had. He's kind, he will sit and have a full out conversation with you, if you happen to have your kids with you he always pays attention to them and asks them serious and silly questions, he sits and is completely relaxed and doesn't have a rushed manner. He will "yell" at me if need be...such as when I didn't want to take high cholesterol medicine..so he asked me if I would rather die instead..needless to say, I'm back on the high cholesterol medicine.

But it wasn't just the doctor that was so great. He has the best team between him, his nurse, and the front office lady. They all compliment each other. The front office lady is nice as can be, yet she will put the doctor in his place when he needs it..such as if he is really taking too long catching up with a patient and their life, he's just cool like that, and so is she. And as for the nurse. Never met a nurse like her before. This nurse has the best combination of being so smoothly efficient, and she has such a calming personality and a genuine smile.

After awhile I notice that there is someone new helping in the back instead of "my nurse". You see, I really like my nurse, when it comes time for annual blood work, she gets it right off the bat and it doesn't hurt one bit. If I have to have the doctor do it, I end up feeling faint and have a goose egg at the injection site. I guess he has to be bad at at least one thing.

So I inquire about where my nurse is. I was informed that she has cancer. I felt the blood drop and the heart hurt. Not my nurse. I'm not a religious person, but she's my idea of an angel. This happened approximately a year ago. So over time I continue to ask about her and donate to help with her funds. And after a while, she was back to working part time and was cancer free. And then I noticed she was gone again. The cancer was back.

So at my annual check up today, I asked my doctor how my nurse was doing. He just kind of looked down at the table and asked me if I wanted the sugar coated version or the honest truth. I said with that kind of statement that I didn't really know what I wanted. He then proceeded to tell me that if she doesn't pass away this week, then it will be next week. I miss my nurse.