September 10, 2014 Wednesday "Make that eight"

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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September 10, 2014 Wednesday

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

     "fusssy"

Interesting Name:

   Jaemayeoust  

Anecdote:

     I was lying down with my son John, age nine, at bedtime…the beautiful, magical time for a parent.  We were talking about what it was like being married and how Mom and I were so happy together.  

      I said, "Just think, John.  Somewhere in America right now there is a nine year old girl out there who is going to sleep right now whom you will marry some day."  I looked over and John was looking up at the ceiling with a big smile on his face.  

      He turned to me and said, "Dad, make that eight."

                                    Westport, Connecticut, 1990's