Visits Of Love

I had to take a new medicine prescribed for me for acid reflux. The gastroenterologist told me years ago that I really did not have the ‘real’ acid reflux because he had patients who had it and were very sickened by it.He said that mine was nothing at all and he prescribed something for it and I have taken it for over twenty years and it helped. Maybe, the gastro doctor was right, because a few weeks ago, I ‘really’ got it badly. Finally, I had to give in and got a prescription for something stronger and newer that is on the drug market. I tried it last Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. I was brave in my own mind. I am a pharmacist’s wife and I do not like taking new medicines, new for me, not necessarily new on the drug scene. By the third afternoon, I felt sicker than before taking it and stopped. I spoke to my physician assistant and he said we will try something else on my Friday visit about this problem. On Friday, he prescribed something he has been taking himself and I promised to get it filled and to try it. I did not want to start using it on a weekend and especially on a Sunday, because we were going to visit the younger grandchildren out of state and that is a long and tiresome trip and if you do not feel well, it is a difficult trip. I had the reflux so badly that I decided to take it on a Sunday and I texted him and we spoke on the phone after the text and he urged me to try it and everything would be fine. I promised I would as soon as I hung up on the phone call. I had great trepidation in thinking about it, but popped in the small white pill before I could change my mind. We left for our trip about two hours later and had a nice ride there, plenty of traffic and cars jockeying back and forth between lanes. I was fine and he also told me to take a new antacid before I came home from there. It was like magic (so far) and the magic pill worked and lots of the anxiety of taking it disappeared and I felt better within two hours in the acid reflux event. We had a nice time with the grandkids and our son and daughter-in-law and I was glad I had spoken to and had his encouragement and not to wait until Monday to start with this new medicine. Sometimes, in our life, we are fortunate to meet a special person or persons and they can affect and influence our life in significant ways. He is one of them and I have written before about him; this was indeed for me, a special moment. I had been sick with this reflux for about a week and even though it is not a life happening event, it is surely quite an unhappy feeling and sensation, as anyone who suffers from it will confirm its unhealthy symptoms and characteristic, conscious throat manifestations. All medicines come now with a paper stating the possible side effects. So sometimes a little bit of talk over the phone, a few lines texted, or a note emailed can have many benefits to the person. In this case, I was the lucky recipient of this advice from this special, knowledgeable, medical person- and this helped me to be able to visit my family and to have a great time and most of all to feel better than I have in a few weeks. Without his conversation to me at about 1030 A.M. on this Sunday morning, I would not have had the courage to try it just before taking an out of town trip. Bravo to people like Dennis who care about their patients even on their day off-Sunday- to speak for about eight minutes and to make someone do something and this something made me feel better and healthier than I have in two weeks from suffering with this problem. Perhaps, after a week or more on this medicine, I will be able to go off of it and the problem will be healed. This happened only because he is patient with the patient and you do not find that with lots of medical people now days. I am lucky in my life with my medical doctors to have discovered , compassionate, knowledgeable, dear, devoted, smart, kind and willing to be my friend persons, to take care of me even on a Sunday. There was a movie about fifty years ago and its title was Never On Sunday. In my case, it was Even On Sunday and God bless this person who did what he was taught and that was to take care of the patient and even on Sunday or even Saturday, they are yours via the internet, the email, the text to help you. I quote Emily Dickinson a lot. She wrote: Who has not found the Heaven below Will fail of it above God’s residence is next to mine elita sohmer clayman Fairfax Station Patch