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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July 29, 2014 Tuesday
Chief Complaint: (written on the chart before I go in the room)
"wolfin' cough"
Interesting Name:
Rainbow
Anecdote:
The young Mother, a patient as well as a friend, was in amazing physical shape. She exercised regularly, as evidenced by her lean, chiseled limbs. She had come in for a form and I turned around while sitting at the nurse's desk to say hi to her children.
I reached out and playfully grabbed three year old Henry as he tried to run away and hugged him, squealing with delight, in my arms. Molly, age six, was smiling, her head tilted shyly, so I also grabbed her as she laughed and gave her a big hug, engulfing her small body in my arms.
Henry, precocious as usual, looked at me with a brilliant idea, grabbed his Mother's tan thin leg and cried out, "Dr. Feole, now do Mom!"
Westport, Connecticut 1990's
Poetry:
One of the Butterflies
The trouble with pleasure is the timing
it can overtake me without warning
and be gone before I know it is here
it can stand facing me unrecognized
while I am remembering somewhere else
in another age or someone not seen
for years and never to be seen again
in this world and it seems that I cherish
only now a joy I was not aware of
when it was here although it remains
out of reach and will not be caught or named
or called back and if I could make it stay
as I want to it would turn to pain.
it can overtake me without warning
and be gone before I know it is here
it can stand facing me unrecognized
while I am remembering somewhere else
in another age or someone not seen
for years and never to be seen again
in this world and it seems that I cherish
only now a joy I was not aware of
when it was here although it remains
out of reach and will not be caught or named
or called back and if I could make it stay
as I want to it would turn to pain.
by W. S. Merwin from The Shadow of Sirius
Coup d'essai:
Favorite Musician/song:
Bruce Hornsby, "The Way It Is"
Memories of my children, family, love, joy.
Favorite Book/author: ...
Favorite Movie/DVD:
Once, with Glenn Hansard
A beautiful love story filled with incredibly beautiful music, set in Dublin. The friendships, the non-materialism of these musicians…
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