Health Update

Tomorrow I have to get up at the ungodly hour of 6 am because of a doctor’s appointment at 8:15. It’s my follow up with my cancer surgeon and, because he starts surgery at 8:45, he literally squeezes in patient follow-ups beforehand.

Don’t feel sorry for me getting up at that silly time to shower and eat, he get’s up even earlier, because that’s his life of a surgeon these days. Get into work, do prep, see patients and then, go off to do several surgeries throughout the day.

Thinking about it, when I realised what long hours he does, I was glad that, on the day of my surgery, I was his first patient rather than his last. I wouldn’t want to be that last one on a difficult day especially when said surgeries, without complications, can take 3 hours each.

So, I’ll be there at 8 am, ready to see him at 8:15 sharp and, even though it’s only for a five minute consult while he looks at my scars and asks me a few questions to see how I’m doing and maybe, schedule further follow-ups. I’ll be grateful because, once again, I’m seeing him at the start of his day and not at the end, when he might have been through hell and back.

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