>Two years ago (or was it three?), I had a problem with my eye. It was kind of gross, so I won’t go into details now, but the point was that I was referred to a specialist who was captivated by my condition. It was not a sty like my family doctor thought, he told me, and it wasn’t even the normal version of whatever it was it ended up being (Canaliculitis, for those who are wondering).
As he did the examination, he told me that my problem was very interesting. I, a bit nervous about having my eye so closely examined, replied, “Well, I guess that’s good.”
He immediately sat back away from me and said, “Oh no. Interesting is never good in a medical context. What you always want to be is medically uninteresting.”
I’ve never forgotten this. In fact, it became my motto when I got pregnant the first time around. I was fortunate in that I pretty much had the most medically uninteresting pregnancy there was, and I’ve since heard so many other stories about difficulties with pregnancies, births, and infant illness that I count my blessings every day for being boring.
And so I am here to report that after failing the initial glucose tolerance test and having to sit through the three-hour version, I am back to being medically uninteresting.
Translation: I don’t have gestational diabetes!
Here’s hoping that my boring streak continues.
>Hip, Hip Hooray! I wished for an uneventful birth experience. I did not want a nurse to utter the words, "I've helped deliver a lot of babies and THAT has never happened before!" Wouldn't that be just awful?! Here's to continued uninteresting pregnancy and uneventful birth 🙂
>yeah! You did it! WHEW!! Here is to boring, boring, boring! Great news!
>How Funny! I heard the same thing from my A&P teacher – "you never want to be "interesting" to a doctor – that just means more tests and more doctors!". I have heard of canaliculitis – what are they doing for it? Hope it resolves itself soon!xo –