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Why Did It Take Two Nurses?

It was just one shot.

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Why Did it Take Two Nurses ?

It was just one shot.

Last Friday I had my two-week appointment, after my last radiation procedure. The procedures all went great, the radiation procedures did their job, and two weeks ago I got to “Ring the Bell”. That was a great moment in my life.

The Doctor appointment was to explain to me, in person how well the 44 radiation procedures went. The Doctor was happy, and I was ecstatic. I was feeling this whole medical experience was over. However, I was never so wrong.

The Doctor had my chart on his little portable cart, complete with a lap-top of every visit I have had with him. I got to be honest,

• First, you have no idea how bad I wanted to get on his computer and look for the Medium website. I so wanted to send out a quick letter of my visit, and as Pam Winter would say, I wanted to do my “Rccing.” a/k/a, “Reading, Clapping, and commenting” on writer’s articles in our community.
• It was just torture seeing that computer with no one using it.
• There was so much information in my chart. It had so many words, I am sure he read every word of it all to me. There were words he used that…