{"id":11863,"date":"2005-12-02T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/todayslegacy.wordpress.com\/2005\/12\/02\/through-my-cheekbones"},"modified":"2005-12-02T17:45:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-02T22:45:00","slug":"through-my-cheekbones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2005\/12\/02\/through-my-cheekbones\/","title":{"rendered":"Through My Cheekbones"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I really thought I could make it through the day today at work, but I was wrong.<\/p>\n

I came back home, sick as well… sick, at about ten this morning. Being the typical child in distress, I called my mommy. About ten minutes later, I found myself on the road to the doctor’s down in Cincinnati. A quick swipe of the throat cells proved negative in a strep test. YES!!!!<\/span> But then something strange happened…<\/p>\n

“Does it hurt here?”<\/span> Dr. Moreira’s thick Spanish accent whispered as she put her fingers on my cheekbones and my forehead.
“No.” <\/span>
“Here?”<\/span> She slightly adjusted her fingers and pressed.
“Nope.” <\/span>
“Hmmmmm” <\/span><\/p>\n

Then she flicked the lights off and returned with her little light (pictured above). [Sidenote… so this light is actually referred to as an “Ear Nose and Throat Medical Light”. Kind of a long title for such a little light. But then again, we are talking about doctors here and we all know they like to make up words and long titles to explain simple concepts.]<\/p>\n

So, Dr. Moreira turned on her little light thingy and came back over to me. I assumed she was going to look in my eyes with it.
<\/span>“Are my eyes supposed to tell her my ailment?”<\/span> <\/span>I wondered. “I’m not on cocaine….” <\/span>
<\/span>Then she put the light on my cheekbone. “Open your mouth.”<\/span> She told me.
“Are you kidding me?”<\/span> I thought.
I opened my mouth.
She looked inside it and then repositioned the light.
“Yep.”<\/span> She went back over and turned on the lights. “Your sinus is blocked.” <\/span>
She sat down and scribbled out some kind of chicken scratch that she believes said a prescription, which I cannot spell, but I know really didn’t say a single English word.<\/p>\n

So, I guess I must just be dense, but it entertains my mind to think that some doctor a long time ago was running out of options in a diagnosis. So, he decided… here, I’ll just put this little light on their cheekbones.<\/span> And then when the light failed to shine through the patient’s left pinkie, the doctor declared, “Open your mouth.”<\/span> And BINGO!!!! A SINUS INFECTION!!! EUREKA!!!!<\/p>\n

The medical world never ceases to amuse me, I tell ya.
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