F. Federica
(November 26, 2007)
Love is staying up all night with a baby ill. Or an adult with very healthy.
(David Frost)
Love is staying up all night with a very healthy child. or an adult patient.
(I)
F. is the person with whom I share the apartment, friends, leisure, bed, kitchen and bathroom above. In short, everything and perhaps even more than that.
But to say my girlfriend, my partner, my lover, my best friend, my wife would be wrong, probably an understatement. I prefer to think that
F. is my partner in a project of common life. And I'm his friend, of course.
Who has had the good fortune to meet F. knows that it is a force of nature, a diesel locomotive that no one can stop a game once, clear and firm but diplomatic at the right point, a charismatic leader who still has not, in my view, the proper awareness of their potential, a person who instinctively like to all and to love you.
Monday, can not remember exactly what time of day, I hear the typical family and colorful expressions.
The fact that typical, familiar, and which needed only in certain specific situations, has instantly opened a window in front of my eyes. Above the question "What?", And below 4 alternatives marked with letters of the alphabet.
A - Lost pill: Concern mild, nothing serious. As it is done, F. always aware of it within 24 hours.
B - Broken stockings: mild concern, it certainly has a couple spare. It will surely have a little something different that you'll like it less.
C - "No, no": No worries. He rethought. This happens quite often and I will cause some frustration. As "No, nothing?", Now I'm curious!
D - "I have 37.5. Feeeeeeeeeeeeebbbbbbre I have a" panic. The period is. The symptoms are. Panic again.
I was only an aid. 50 and 50. Help!. They remain on C and D. I turn on the D, it's my final answer and this time I would rather not win.
Ok. We're calm. I understand that there is no need to agitate for a simple and common flu. But
F. nothing is ever trivial. And in fact, never even easier.
's amazing how such a small' thing 'that even you can not see with the naked eye, can cause such changes in our body;
and even more amazing is how it can cause in F. symptoms such as:
- Fever 'highly' oscillating between 37.5 and 39.5.
During the day, you know, the temperature fluctuations are normal. And probably if any other patient is measured fever every hour, would also continue their fine oscillations.
- Aches and pains that they would think about things much more serious.
Fortunately the center of the pain changes every day. Now, or its bodies are breaking down one by one (and I'd be a little difficult not being Dr.House) or it is always 'just' the flu with its local joint and muscular pain
- Delusions and visions
This phenomenon has only exceeded 39 °, and has its interesting aspects. Because if it is true that it is a delusion or a vision, it always draws inspiration from internal feelings and sensations. A bit like when F. slightly shining. But in that case, unfortunately, tends to fall asleep.
- Strange pain glandular and the like
But it seems that anti-inflammatory spray for local use with alcohol content of burning bloody tonsils, make you feel better. Not because the flu is going through. But because if it burns so much, something must be done.
- Intolerance to certain persons and in particular to the general practitioner.
usually tend to difedere F., but we have already said that when he has the flu, is not she.
And I, despite myself, I have to take the side of the doctor.
me Cause I can imagine. Your doctor. In his small studio apartment of two rooms use more services, with its own entrance and aseptic anonymous, with its study standard bed, desk, library (with the usual university texts) and medicine cabinet, with its waiting room packed with people when you come ask "Who is the last?", so you must be careful only to a person .
It begins where every visit will last 30 minutes. Because is not easy to listen to a person when you are interrupted every 20 seconds by the ringing telephone, let alone make a diagnosis.
in the waiting room because obviously there are people who are already sick with a fever. That call. And we are in November. It's cold. The influence runs.
And there I see the doctor, poor thing, trying to make it clear that it is only influence. You do not need hospitalization. And not a single intervention. And even a home visit. And no one is dying.
And he gets it on time, by F., a sonorous epithet to highlight the alleged professional incompetence, the phone is turned down, of course.
Needless to say, all his predictions are accurate and correct, but I wonder why F. remains convinced of his inability. Why then should not change if he does not like so much, we do not know.
However, the past week, we're alive and ready for more amazing adventures.
In fact I even saying anything, but I have the chores and by the time I run.
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