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grantcart

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14. Re "Tinkle" When I was 7 I had a fever and went to the pediatrician
Sun Sep 27, 2020, 11:11 PM
Sep 2020

When I met the doctor he started the process of a differential diagnosis.

"Did it hurt to swallow or to move my neck"?

"Can you sleep all night or do you wake up sweating"?

I understood what he was doing and was quite excited to see how a doctor does his job.

Probably mumps he said but will run some tests.

"Can you give us a specimen? Can you . . .( looks at my mom and asks) what do you call it?"

"Tinkle" mother answers.

On the way home my mother asks me why I am so quiet as I am always talking.

"This doctor finished high school , college and doctor school right?"

"Right"

"How could he finish all those schools and not know what that "tinkle" is called "tinkle"?

My mother, normally very serious, laughed all the way home. All afternoon she called her friends and there was always a howl of laughter.

I continued to think that adults were very weird and was very suspicious of the doctor and refused to be taken in by his tongue dispensers that he made into airplanes with a rubber band.

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Re "Tinkle" When I was 7 I had a fever and went to the pediatrician grantcart Sep 2020 #14
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