Running Commentary

The Land That Medical Advances Forgot January 16 2008

Men…you may want to avert your eyes.

Ladies you will totally get me.

I went for my bi- annual “looky-loo” today. This is the first time with my present doctor.

Also the first time with a male doctor in a long time.

Also the first time in this town for a loooooooooong time.

Ladies…it was still STEEL.

STEEL!

As in cold…hard….surgical steel!

When she brought me into the (words smallest) exam room, she told me she was going to “Set up” and then would leave me to undress and later return with the doctor.

She began lining up all the instruments of terror which was odd to begin with because I am used to my (old) Doctor doing it herself.

ANYWAY, the nurse started running the water and I am assuming she’s getting ready to scrub in.

Not so!

She was running the water to make it warm. To warm the SPECULUM (circa: 1967).

!!

And it totally seemed like she had grabbed it out of some random drawer of miscellaneous medical instruments.  Not wrapped in plastic like the ones the REAL Doctors use.

I

was

MORTIFIED.

And let me tell it was only down hill from there.

But you know, it’s done for another 2 years (or is it annually now that I am over *cough cough* 35?) and so hopefully by then he will be dead. And a MUCH younger Doc will feel me up in the name of health.

ugh