Today was my annual physical exam.
The doctor's appointments were backed up by "a bit," so I had to wait in the waiting room for several minutes.
When the doctor's-assistant-girl called my name, I got to go have my blood pressure taken, finger pricked, and all that good stuff. I knew that I had gained a little weight since my last appointment (still blaming the leg surgery!), so I stood backwards on the scale while the assistant wrote down my weight.
Then I was shown into the exam room. I "dressed" for my exam and then sat on the exam table. Looked around for a few minutes. Thumbed through a couple magazines. (In one of them I read that there is no definitive, absolute way of doing nothing.) I was getting a little tired, so I propped myself up by putting my hands on the table and I closed my eyes. After doing this for a while, I was afraid that I might fall asleep and fall off the table. I leaned back so that I was essentially lying down. My legs were dangling over the end, but I was pretty comfortable.
And this was how my doctor found me. I never did fall asleep, but I came close.
She apologized for the wait. She later showed me how the end of the table pulls out. I could have put my legs up and been completely prone....I am SO doing that the next time!
(Postscript: Hopefully, I won't have to wait as long next year. I will attempt to be the first appointment in the morning or the first after lunch. Nobody else thinks of doing that, I bet.)
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