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 16, 2014 Tuesday
Interesting Name:
Anecdote:
The six year old bent over so that I could examine his back.
"Is that a bat bite?" he asked.
I peered at the tiny red mark: no break in the skin, slightly elevated, and miniscule.
"No. It's not."
"Well, what is it?" He asked me with consternation in his voice.
I said, "Well, let's see. How long has the mark been there."
He threw his hands up in the air and said,
"Ever since the bat bit me."
Westport, Connecticut, 1990's
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