I’m Cliff Notes. Rashele is Encyclopedia Britannica
I’m not allowed to go to Mason’s doctor visits alone anymore.
Allow me to explain.
My wife and I are VERY different people, and truthfully I sometimes wonder how it is that we ever ended up together.
I’m a laid back person. Little bothers me. Rashele is the exact polar opposite. She’s extremely organized and I hesitate to say “high strung” because she’s not. Let’s just say she’s a stickler for details.
On the Monday after Thanksgiving we had a scheduled appointment with a nutritionist that came highly recommended from many in one of our online support groups. Since Mason was making breakthroughs and was now experimenting with some new foods, we wanted to have a consult done, and test for food allergies.
We’ve never suspected any allergies until very recently due to some exposures at school, and at therapy where we think rice was a contributing culprit. His eyes were irritated and swollen near shut for a few hours. Thankfully a dose of Benadryl helped alleviate some of his discomfort.
Since I was still on vacation this day I was going to be attending the consult alone. Rashele was back to work after a well rested vacation during the week of Thanksgiving.
I remember her words as I walked out the door on the way to the appointment… “TAKE GOOD NOTES!” and she slipped a notepad and pen in my laptop bag.
The consult with the nutritionist yielded a wealth of information. We went over everything in Mason’s daily menu, which happens to be a very limited. We went over gut issues, bowel movements, cravings. I even showed pictures of his eye swelling incident and told of my suspicions on what led to it.
Nearly 2 hours after it began, the consult came to an end and I made my way to the car. As I prepared to put away my things, I looked at my notes. Somehow I had only managed to scribble a couple of lines of information which was hardly even legible to my own eyes. I immediately recalled Rashele’s words as I was walking out the door.
“@!#%!$#@!%#$ I’m going to hear it” the little voice in my head told me.
Sure enough I was right. Seconds within walking in the door the interrogation started.
I did my best to explain everything that was covered in the meeting, but wasn’t doing a very good job.
Rashele comes from a long line of debaters, and she has a habit of firing off questions faster than I can think and/or answer them. It didn’t make for a pleasant afternoon for either of us.
We eventually stopped talking for a couple of hours.
I can formulate thought MUCH better in writing than I can verbally, hence why I like to blog.
To fix things, I sat down and wrote down everything that was covered in the consult, a brief “cliff notes” so to speak.
Once complete, I presented it to her, and this opened up better dialogue about the appointment, and made it much easier for me to relay information
This fixed things and we were speaking again.
Had Rashele gone to the meeting, I would’ve received a powerpoint presentation, along with a 30 minute commentary, followed by a perfectly collated set of leather bound books
Thursday, December 13, 2007
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7 comments:
I have to admit, I am very similar to your wife in the details department. Just wanted to say that your blog is great.
Amy - www.myworldmyboys.wordpress.com
hello,
what online support groups do you visit?
i go to the one at www.mdjunction.com and in www.healthtalk.com.
thanks,
Daniel
Hi Amy, you are too kind! I think most wives are the same in the details department. Marriage has really taught me how different Rashele and I are, and most men/women for that matter.
I love your blog as well, if you don't mind I'll be adding it to my blog list?
Thanks so much!
Joey
Hi daniel b,
I'll have to check those 2 out.. Most of the ones I frequent are local to the Dallas/Ft Worth area, and one for the greater state of Texas.
Thanks for reading! ;)
Joey
Men are from Mars is it?
Great post!
Stacy
If I could just be more like your lovely wife ...
Sigh...
Judith, you and Rashele both suffer from "The Grass is always Greener" syndrome :o)
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