November 14, 2014
An update on M
Took M to the sports medicine doctor yesterday. The doctor was recommended by another doctor friend of ours, whose daughter plays soccer and volleyball with Zoe. We got there early and filled out all the paperwork (why is there always so much paperwork?!) and the nurse called us promptly at M's appointment time. M crutched back to the exam room, where the nurse checked his blood pressure and asked more specific questions than those on the forms. She laughed at us, because M would answer her questions, and then I would fill in the missing pieces. He said, "I'm not lying!" and I said, "It's called the sin of omission, dude." And he cracked up which made the nurse bust out laughing. After a few minutes she left and the doctor came in. I liked him immediately, because he took one look at the crutches leaning up against the wall and said, "Are you on those? Yeah, we're getting you off those. Today." I almost hugged him right there. The crutches have been so hard on M, because he's so dependent on others with them. He can't carry things with them unless he messes with a backpack, and who wants to do that all the time? And there are some things that just can't go in a backpack. Like a cup of coffee.
