It's not often I buy a computer a month, but last month I bought one (2012 macbook pro) and tomorrow I'm
buying another (2012 iMac with snow leopard.
Another funny thing happened yesterday. I was told of a good doctor 5 miles away, could see him without rdv but be prepared to wait. "He's 75 and shows no sign of retiring"
I get there and there's one big guy in the waiting room. 40 minutes later there's still the big guy, a women with a 7 ye old and a noisy 3 yr old, another woman.
THe doctor comes in. Bald pate, silver hair, glasses, pleasant face. Big guy from polynesia goes in and I think won't be long now.
An hour later I'm still there with the women and kids plus a women who arrived not long after the guy from Tongoish went through.
THen he comes into the waiting room and it's my turn.
I'll need your carte vital ...
He then forks off out the back and I'm sat at his nice desk wondering what's going on and when he's coming back as he's been gone 5 minutes.
He comes back from I know not where doing I know not and takes carte vital. then,.. what can I do for you.. I hand over MRI scans, it's me knee see, got a bad knee. etc.
Eh?? he says,
I said IT"S ME KNEE DOCTOR< GOT A BAD KNEE!!
He says, the other one, how's that?
I say, it's not so bad, you know how it is.
Eh?? he says,
I SAID IT'S NOT SO BAD! YOU KNOW HOW IT IS!!
Anyway this went on for several minutes then he said come into this anti chambre lie on the bed. HE bneds my leg up and down. SAys yes yes. He says what did you do for a living you're quite young to have a knee this bad.
I said I did manual labour in france for 10 years, like being on devil's island or summat!! Then I got a full time teaching work and dropped manual stuff but knee started playing up around the same time, 2016.
Eh?? he says..
I say ... fukc me, I WORKED LIKE A WOG FOR 10YRS MOVING STUFF
Ah fine fine.
He takes my blood pressure in left arm, 14 over 8. Hmm he says, take off your shirt. He takes pressure in right about the same, he says, ok that's fine. Measures my height, tells me i'm 176 when I've always thought I was 184 6foot. WE have a laugh about that ... foot, feet, don't ask me why, probably something to do with the incredible shrinking man. Then his phone rings. He goes to answer and spends 5 minutes on phone.
We go back to main office. I show him my blood results from 2 year and 5 years ago. He says good good ok , psa, need to do another blood test .. his phone rings, 5 minutes on it. SOmeone wanting to know the blood test results (blood sample taken that morning but he had results on his pc)
He says you need a prosthetic knee, you should see a surgeon, I say I fancy being treated in bourg en bresse or lyon, not Lons le Saunier, he agrees, tells me there's three at Bourge en bresse and writes me a letter to give them. He tells me to get an xray done of both knees, he begins to write the prescription thing for that when his phone rings again. THis time it's someone who's mother has got a boil on the side of her head.
He gets off the phone and says where were we, I say X ray. He says, yes, writes appointment letter.
I say, medicine replacement, he says, yes, what do you take, I show him my empty packet of tramadol and codine, he says ok, and the phone rings ....
He gets off the phone, goes out into the corridor to accept a parcel and there's a guy waiting there, what do you want to asks him, I've come to pay you, ok good, he comes back in, locks the door, does the guy's payment, goes back out gives him his card says ta ta. COmes back in locks the door, phone rings. It's the chemist, did you get the delivery? Yes he says,. Ok where were we ... my name,.. right, it's Reay ... as in Ray CHarles. Ah Ray CHarles he says,.. that reminds me of my youth... yeah I get time to say, great artist great artist.. been dead 10 years now I think. He's not alive now! he says.
I say, no doctor, HE DIED 10 YEARS OK .. now about the prescriptions...
the phone rings ... it's a women with a saucepan stuck to her son's head. He tells her to come in the morning, first thing, 8am.
Now ... yes, prescription.
He gives me that, I stand up to show him my posture and he says, yes the left leg is bent, I see now. I said you should have seen it two years ago.
He says, what?
I say, YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN IT TWO FUKCING YEARS AGO!!
He says right. I have been with him for just under 1 hour.
I say, the blood test... he says, right ... the phone rings.. woman wanting to know results of blood test.
He gets off phone and writes up and stamps the nurse blood test thing.
I have been in his office for 1 hour and 5 minutes.
He says call me for the results of the blood test, I say, ok Doctor, thanks a lot.
There might have been a bit of fukcing about but, a good doctor. 75 and will work till he can no longer. When he goes the village will miss him.
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