I just got off the phone with Celebrity Cruise Line because I needed to know if we could get off the ship on time for a land tour of Holland when the ship docks in Amsterdam. The ship docks at 5am and the tour begins at 10am. Of course, we need to get to the hotel first to drop off our luggage and perhaps have time to change our clothes if we need to. The answer I got wasn't too helpful. A lot depends on how much time we need to get through customs, and hopefully the transportation we requested would be waiting for us. Then again, I'll have my scooter and we don't have any way of knowing whether or not it will fit in the car/van??? Thus, we have some problems to solve with not much chance of knowing how to solve them. Any ideas?
Today I had another doctor's appointment with my neurologist, Dr. Blumenthal. When I got to the building I went directly to check in with Dr. Palumbo my pulmonologist. The receptionist said they had no record of my appointment at which time I realized I went to the wrong ....ologist. So, I waddled down the hall to the correct ...ologist. If I keep getting confused about my ...ologists as I grow older, then I'm going to need an archaeologist. Anyway, I had an x-ray of my foot because my achilles tendon was acting up and I had a lot of pain when I tried to walk. But the neurologist thought perhaps I had a fracture of some kind down there, hence the x-ray. No results yet. When I went back to the car, I found that I was in a reserved parking space for doctors instead of a handicap spot. Oh well, I rationalized, I'm a doctor and I just drove off.
2 comments:
Next, medical comments. A little confusion is the spice of life, but you certainly were entitled to the reserved parking space because you ARE a doctor.
In an emergency, you are qualified to perform surgery on an article for a medical journal or to repair a dangling participle.
Q.E.D., you are justified in taking any parking space you want. That is NOT a rationalization; it IS justice.
Why could the doctor not read the X-Ray on the spot and confirm the diagnosis? Oh, yes, it violates the Hypocritic Oath. However, if there is a green stick fracture, it should be attended to AT ONCE, if not sooner.
We must hopefully assume that your pain is caused by a strained Achilles tendon. A votre sante, Doc Ross, and don't you forget it.
We must bend our efforts to create a magic elixir that will allow us to reverse the time and tide that wait for no man, but should wait for NoRman. God bless all the Rosses.
If the Amsterdam tour was organized by the cruise line, then they usually have the timing worked out for passengers. In any case, it seems 3 hrs. is enough time to get from the ship to the hotel to the tour. If your scooter folds up, it should fit into a bus or van, so you should be all set.
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