Man From The Moon

I had a patient in the office on Tuesday. I greeted him and tried to explain what it was I needed to do. He was there to pre-op for surgery. He stopped me to tell me that after I got finished with him I would always be able to say I worked with the man from the moon. I asked him if he had ever been to the moon. He told me he had but he wasn't able to get out and walk. I asked him why and he said because he was a mechanic for NASA and they wouldn't let him out. I thought it sounded like a neat story and I explained I never had a patient like him before. Needless to say for the next 20 min he told me the same story about 10 times. His daughter was able to wisper to me that he had infact never been to the moon, but he did work for NASA. I think he had a slight case of Alzheimer's. He finished by telling me he had one question. Something he was wondering about even on the day of his exam with our doctor...................... "Why would NASA let me go all the way to the moon and not let me get out of the space shuttle to walk on the moon?" I ended our conversation with "It must be that the mechanic is more important than the astronauts. They wanted to be sure you were there to get them home. You had a very important job!" He said, "I guess so. Well now, after today, you will be able to say you worked on the man from the moon." I smiled and told him to have a nice day. This really is a funny story and almost all of our patients are like this in some way. They are very old (75-90). This isn't very unusual on a normal day for me, but something stood out about this man. He was happy, content, and he had a wonderful daughter there taking good care of him. She never corrected him or made him feel stupid. Sometimes it wouldn't hurt us to have a little Alzheimer's. We would see life through a different set of eyes.

Michelle -- [adjective]: Pretentiously academian 'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com

Playing House

So , remember when you were kids and you used to play house. You would have baby dolls , beds, and bottles. Dishes to wash, errands to run and such? Well even if you didn't, I did. I loved to play house because my dream and goal in life was to become a wife and mother. I have been a wife for almost six years now but haven't had any children of my own. I am ok with that for now because God has allowed me to be very involved with my brother-in-law and sister-in-law. They are such a blessing and so much fun. I know I will love my own children just as much but it's hard to know how that is possible. Hoss Brock Marino is the eight year old. He is so smart and he has skipped a grade. He gets to go to Disney immediately if he makes an "A" on the FCAT. He is very excited. January Caroline Marino is the sweet, precious little girl. She turned one on Dec 24th and is learning to talk back already. Of Course we can't understand what she is trying to say, but there is some attitude and a pointing finger while she garbles. Anyways these are the kids I have to show off for now. I love them very much.

All Night??

So.....Nic was in Tennessee last weekend with Josh and Hope(and Lex). I wasn't able to go because I couldn't get the same days off work. I called my cousin Amanda that lives in Orlando and invited her to stay the weekend with me. She thought it was a great idea. I recently found that I really like scrapbooking. I just did it for the first time about a month ago. Amanda has been needing to do a week long cruise scrap book for a while. I told her to bring her things and maybe we could do this together. After eating a wonderful salad of greens, tomatoes, cucumbers, very strong purple onion, boiled egg, honey mustard dressing and CRISPY CHICKEN, we cleaned up and pulled out the scrapbooking things. That was about 8pm Friday night. Um......at 5am Saturday morning we realized we needed to go to bed. Yes we had an entire day of events planned with my mom. It included shopping , painting and redecorating a bedroom. Saturday night we finally made it home and crashed. In case you don't know me well. I don't do all nighters and I don't function well with little sleep. It was a new adventure for me, but I can't say I regret it . I love my cousin very much and enjoyed the time spent together. On the other hand, I do wish I could have gone to visit in Tennessee with Nic. I would have had much fun and who knows I may have stayed up all night there too!!