Thursday March 13, 2013
I had an interesting day today which was an excellent representation of how the spiritual and the material have started meshing...it's even a little bit funny! I have obviously changed or deleted the names of the medical practitioners and some of the details (nature of complaint and locations etc) to be respectful. The reason I went to the doctor in the first place was because P woke me in the night and screamed at me that we were running out of time and I had to see a doctor. For one reason and another her warning was valid, but I didn't know that I just knew that if she was prepared to make that level of effort to be seen and heard I owed it to her to take notice.
First stop after GP was a specialist and it was decided this should be before I fly again. My GP who I have to say is rather humourless (not like my fablious GP in Perth who I miss big time!) had written some kind of note on my file about "seeing dead people, but no sign of schizophrenia or other underlying mental illlness!" Ha! Another one fooled I proclaimed to the voices in my head! The specialist shined a light in my eyes;
- Dr: (Sort of casually) "There is a note on your file that you talk with dead people"
- Me: "Can you see any in there?"
- Dr: "What now?"
- Me: "Yes! Well don't most medics think they are all in my head!? So are they in there?"
- Dr: "Funny as well? (Steps back and leans on his desk and has a little chuckle).
- Me: "You probably woke them up when you turned the light on. The voices in my head I mean. They will probably tell me to go buy hundreds of dollars worth of chocolate now because you upset them!"
- Dr: "You are lucky I'm not a psychiatrist you know that don't you? (Laughs) I Do you need painkillers? Specialist sits down and starts writing something in my file
- Me: "No thanks I am pretty good without them.
- Dr: (doesn't look up) "So is it a blessing or a curse this dead people thing of yours?
- Me: "A bit of both I think. I would love to know why and how though. What do you as a specialist (deleted specialty) think?
- Dr: If you had asked me that when I was at university or even doing my residency I probably would have told you it was impossible but I'm not so sure these days. You can't ignore some of the stories you hear from people. Even people who don't know each other have similar stories sometimes and it makes you wonder. I am scientist though. I couldn't and wouldn't practice based on something like that, it's interesting though but still too much of a mixture of religion and science to be taken seriously in my profession. (rips off a piece of paper and hands it across his desk). I do think in many years to come it might actually get some research funding though we can't just leave it alone. (smiles).
- Me: Cheers, I'll just make an appointment after I have had this done and come back and see you and the guy standing behind you when it's done. He really thought your little brother was going to be the doctor not you you know.
- Dr: You win, probably my Father. Good Bye Ms Shankland, and thank you.I look forward to talking to you again.
Ok well this one is a bit of a cheat as my lawyer is also a friend. I spent some years working in law and accounting so I have a bit of knowse going on about this one. We did the skype thing and after we had finished the social stuff;
- LLB: Anyway what's up?
- Me: Nothing really I just wanted a general talk with you about .. (subject deleted)
- LLB: That's really interesting there has been a lot about that in recent years but the short answer is yes. It's tricky and can be argued but I don't think successfully, I'll give you some case law to read.
- Me: Cheers , thanks for that reckon I owe you about six bucks we were that quick!
- LLB: I'll swap it for six bucks of your time\
- Me: Sure! What's up?
- LLB: Well I can't actually tell you that's breaching client confidentiality.
- Me: Oooh like Alison Dubois you want me to help you catch the bad guy?
- LLB: Idiot! I don't do criminal (insert girlfriend types jokes here!) but sort of.
- Me: Well I can't give you anything if I don't know what you want. Wait have this....Arty says "bank statements from a really huge guy, I don't mean tall and broad I mean overweight. You've missed something about his involvement in something." He signed something and he didn't have the authority to but it was acted upon. His own signature though not a forgery.."
- LLB: Crap that actually makes sense, sort of.
- Me: That will be twelve bucks. Six for me and six for Arty. We charge in units of ten seconds (big laugh cos I thought it was funny anyway!)
- LLB: I think Alison Dubois was thinner and prettier than you. Just sayin. She probably still is.
- Me: You owe me lunch!
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