June 19, 2014 Thursday "itching with Mom"

First Words

      …thoughts of an anachronistic, solo pediatrician

                            by Glenn Feole, M.D.

"Be careful too that the reading of your story makes the melancholy 

        laugh and the merry laugh louder," Cervantes, Prologue to Don Quixote

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June 19, 2014

Chief Complaint: (written on the chart before I go in the room)

     “itching, with Mom.”

Interesting Name:

Woody on the exam table after a visit...

     Tuezday

Anecdote:

       I was examining a cute ten month old little girl and was wondering about her development.  I asked if she was pulling up or playing patty cake, using consonants.  

     The Grandmother interrupted me and said, “She knows how to shake her booty.”

               January, 2010, South Carolina

Poetry:

                                    Growth

                        I saw her the day before the birth

                       struggling with the ache in her stomach

                        a caesarian section two months early

                        not because of the growth in her womb

                        but because of another growth

                        that had spread throughout her body

                       soon to be overwhelmed

                        After visiting her newborn

                        alone in the isolette

                        I walked down the long gray hallway 

                       to see her

                        so far from her baby

                        I brought her flowers the next day

                        hesitating to hand them to her

                        Let me just put them on the counter, I said

                        No, she said, and gently reached out

                        and silently cradled them in her arms

                        like a newborn

                        caressed them with her smile

                        in silence as I watched

Glenn Feole

                              1992

Westport, Ct.

Coup d'essai: ...

Favorite Musician/song:

     Flim and the BB's, the CD "New Pants"

     A classic in my mind and one of my favorites.  Jazz is too narrow an adjective for the scope and creativity of this album.  He is the quiet, self-effacing bassist for James Taylor as well.  Once, he was upset, Taylor said at one concert, when Taylor mentioned Flim and the BB's to the audience.  I   His goal, he has said, is to disappear on the stage - only the presence of his bass playing to be appreciated as it adds to the song and performer.  A mentor for me and my bass playing.  He is the most sensitive and creative bass player I have ever heard, both on this exquisite CD as well as his accompaniment of James Taylor. 

Favorite Book/author:

     J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
          The Salinger voice, conversational and erudite...

Favorite Movie/DVD:

     Ulee's Gold, with Peter Fonda
     The gentleness of the opening scene alone…the
Grandfather's relationship with his granddaughter… poignant and beautiful.

Favorite Quote:

   

    " …pedagogue, preceptors. tutors….gerund-grinders…"  Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy.