ALLY:
My meeting three days ago on Tuesday went successfully. My makeup line would be released in two months. Today was the day of my followup with Dr. Moon post my surgery. I worked at Tiffany today, and my boss, Amanda, was going to let me leave early. My shifts at Tiffany were generally Tuesday to Friday from eleven to three. I arrived at Tiffany, my boss seemed excited to see me.
She smiled.
"Hey, Ally."
I said,
"Hi, Amanda."
She said,
"You seem like you're feeling better."
I said,
"I definitely am. It was probably the worst sore throat I ever had. And I've had plenty."
She looked at me.
"We definitely missed you. By the way, what's the reason you have to leave early again?"
I told her,
"The doctor who diagnosed me with tonsillitis and told me I needed tonsillitis said he wanted to do a follow up with me today. I need to be there by three. The guy's young for a doctor, but he sure knows his stuff. Best of all, he's the perfect synthesis of smart and attractive."
"Sounds like you like him,"
My boss teased.
I scoffed and I said,
"Whaaaaat?"
I always said that when I was trying to lie, or when I was trying to cover up a lie. But Trish, as well as many other people, had told me that I totally sucked at lying.
Amanda smirked at me.
"You're in love with him, Ally Dawson."
I said,
"No, I just like him as a friend, I don't even know anything about him yet, other than that he's the youngest doctor I've ever met and that he's a fan of me."
I could tell she was trying to screw with me, but she said,
"Admit you have a crush on him or I'm firing you!"
"You're firing me just for not admitting my true feelings?"
"Of course not! I'm just screwing with you."
I said,
"Well, based on that response, I do like like him. And I do want to be more than just his patient."
"If you love someone, you gotta go for it, princess."
I said,
"You're right. But I think I'll let him come to me. It's always better when the guy goes for the girl.
My boss laughed.
"When I met my husband, that was how we met."
My day at Tiffany went successfully. I left at two o'clock to go to my Doctor's appointment. I checked in, and when I did that, I just was looking at my phone, scrolling through Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, when I heard a mexican nurse call,
"Allison Dawson."
I said,
"That's me."
I stood up and she told me,
"Follow me."
I followed her to an exam room and she asked me to take my shoes off, so she could check my weight and height. My weight was one hundred and four pounds and I was five foot two. I had a rather petite figure, but I was also pretty lanky so I kind of evened out. She told me,
"Put your shoes back on and roll up your sleeves."
I put my shoes back on and rolled up my sleeves and she wrapped the sphygmomanometer around my arm and my blood pressure was one hundred ten over seventy five. She unwrapped the cuff to the sphygmomanometer, put it back in the basket and lifted the digital thermometer and shook it. And then the nurse told me,
"Under your tongue."
She stuck it under my tongue and it beeped in ten seconds.
"Ninety seven point two. Your temperature is fine. Dr. Moon told me he wanted you to come in because he wanted to see how you've been doing post your tonsillectomy, and he also asked me to vaccinate you for influenza."
I said,
"OK."
She said,
"I'll be back. I'm just going to get the shot, OK?"
I said,
"OK."
I just sat on the chair and waited for her. She was literally back in two minutes with a bag of cotton balls, rubbing alcohol, a shot and some band-aid.
"Before I give you this shot, I need to know, do you have any allergies to eggs?"
I said,
"No."
"Do any lung or heart complications run in your family?"
"No."
"OK. You're all good."
She laid the shot on the sink, and she washed her hands with soap and water and put on some gloves. She cleaned my arm, told me,
"Inhale,"
I inhaled. The needle of the vaccine went into my arm and was out in a second. She covered it with a blue band-aid with Charlie Brown and Lucy from Peanuts dressed in orange astronaut outfits. Peanuts was honestly one of the cutest cartoons I had ever seen. Those cute little kids (even Lucy. She was pretty mean to everyone and the way she hit on Schroeder, was a little off-putting. Was she trying to get him to have sex with him or something?), and Snoopy and Woodstock.
So adorable. The latina nurse said to me,
"Dr. Moon will be with you in a while, OK?"
I said,
"OK."
