Third
time lucky, I thought to myself, but I moved just as he was taking the X-ray. By
now, he was running out of patience and muttering under his breath, said,
“What’s wrong with this idiot?” “I am not an idiot, I have Parkinson’s!” I
replied indignantly, furious with his lack of empathy. If anyone was an idiot,
it was the technician, but of course, my good manners refrained me from saying
this out loud. He stopped in his tracks and stood still. Slowly turning around,
he looked me in the face for the first time since I had entered the room and apologized.
He had
seen ‘Gaucher disease’ and the instructions of what needed to be X-rayed on the
form I’d given him. It was written quite clearly a little further down the page,
that I also suffer from Parkinson’s, but he had not bothered to read everything.
If he’d had the decency to look at me, he would have realised I have Parkinson’s.
You’ll be
pleased to know that for the fourth X-Ray, I held my breath and concentrated
hard on not moving. Success at last and I was able to leave the X-Ray
department.
Years
ago, one would have to wait a considerable time for the X-Ray, which would be
inside a large brown envelope. Today it’s much easier, as X-Rays along with a
written report, go straight into the hospital’s computer system. By the time I
got back upstairs to the ward, the doctor had already seen my X-Ray and read the
report. How times have changed.
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