Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Close Call


Last week, Elia had to get a routine finger prick to at her 9 month check up. On Monday, the nurse left me a message on my phone saying, "Hi Mrs. Rowles, please call me as soon as you get this message." A million bad things went through my head. My stomach kind of started turning into knots. Visions of cancer and weird random illnesses were running through my head as I hurriedly called her back. Of course, when I called her back, she was with another patient and could not talk to me. Finally, a half hour after I listened to the scary message, she called me back. "I just wanted to let you know that Elia's blood results came back clean. Everything looks normal!" I really wish she could have spared me the fretting and just said that very thing in the first message she sent to me.

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