First Doctor

Imagine this, you are about to become a big brother/sister, and you are anxiously waiting for the doctor to come out and tell you it is time to meet your little brother/sister. You are feeling overwhelmed with excitement and nervousness. Finally, you walk into the hospital room, and you hear your mom and dad crying. You realize you don’t see the baby anywhere around the room. You ask what is wrong, and they tell you that after the baby was born, it died shortly after from a disease that could…

Pepper was born and there was only one thing that wasn’t quite right, her big toes were crooked and short. Doctors didn’t think anything of it. They fit her with toe with braces and sent her back home. A couples months later, swelling appeared on the back of her head. Nobody knew what was wrong. When her mother noticed that she couldn’t open her mouth as wide as normal, she took her to many doctors to figure out what was wrong. They diagnosed her with Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva, a…

Figure 1) in Family Fun magazine would make eggs synonymous with manipulation? A few weeks ago, I took my son, Leo, to a routine doctor’s visit with his pediatrician. Like most moms sitting in that physician’s waiting room, I picked up one of the doctor-provided magazines. Glancing through the glossy pages the magazine, nothing held my interest for long until my eyes landed on the Eggland’s Best “It’s so EB” advertisement (2013). While scanning from the top of the page to the bottom, my…

"Hi you all know me I am Luke Hemmings from five seconds of summer. Today we are going on our first show in San Diego California hope to see you there" I say while posting the video onto Instagram. The long tiresome bumpy ride to San Diego was horrible I must admit. And we still have 3 hours left on this bus. I peer outside the window and I could tell it was going to rain. Groaning I walk to the kitchen part of the tour bus and see my band mate Ashton. "What's wrong mate" ashton says. It's gonna…

On Mableton Pkwy sits an office that looks like a house, but it's not a house it's a psychiatric office.I remember on the day of my interview I was scared that I had missed the real doctor's office and somehow made it to someone's house.My mind was put to rest when I spotted a Small sign in the corner that read DR.Shah’s Psychiatric office. Once I entered I was Greeted by my now supervisor Rashmi. She was intimidating but I sucked up my nervousness and followed her to her office. I was extremely…

the stitches and I did just so. They numbed me and that was the most pain I felt throughout the whole situation. I watched as she inserted the stitches and watched her cover them with gauze. My mom was so proud and so was my doctor. As we were getting ready to go, the doctor came in and gave me a stuffed bear and a lollipop. On the bear it had a shirt that read in white lettering “I’m a hero” in a red heart. It meant the world to me and I loved it so much. It made me feel like that this whole…

The dreaded evening lull. That is what emergency room physicians detest, to see a steady, and reliable flow of patients, slow, to a trickle. You can hear the audible click of the clock as the waiting room empties, and as the waiting room quiets, the halls swell with a steady orchestra of monitors, alarms, and chit chat. Myself, well, I could be found in no routine location, no designated cubicle, but rather on a WOW, a workplace on wheels. See, I was an emergency department physician scribe, for…

envelope and instructed me to give it to a parent as soon as possible. I was anxious about what it said, but I knew I couldn’t open it. After my mom read it, she told me I might have Scoliosis and explained what it was. A few months later I went to the doctor and he discovered I did have Scoliosis.…

It was a cold winter day. We were running out of wood in the basement and I was always the one who helped my dad put more into the basement. I was in the third grade and loved helping my dad outside with his chores that he had to do. My dad told me that he was going out to put some wood in the basement and I began bundling up in my warm winter clothes. I put on my snow pants, coat, boots, hat, and work gloves before heading outside to help. My dad was pulling out of the garage on the four…

your back for years does it stay scary? This being’s name is Dysautonomia or Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome or POTS, she has many names; sometimes I call her “Hell”. The first year, when I did not know her name, was the most challenging. I had headaches and episodes of what my mom called “auroras” every day. Doctor after…