Big People

They are making me take care of BIG PEOPLE. GROWN UPS. ADULTS. I swear the first three patients who came I just didn’t know what to do with them. I just didn’t seem to know how to start a conversation with them. My usual bag of tricks of cartoons, books, sports teams and Hannah Montana was useless. I finally managed to have a half-hour conversation with a woman in the pre-op area about Budapest. And she thanked me profusely saying none of other “surgeons” in the past had ever offered any sort of distraction during the pre-op process. I then began to wonder if I was supposed to do such things with grown ups. No one seemed to care one way or the other. Sheesh I am terrible at all this professionalism and seriousness that goes into taking care of grown ups.

Today they let me take care of little folks’ eyes, it was a relief. Its not that I hate taking care of adults, I just don’t enjoy it.