LUCK

When my sons were very little, my first wife and I had a wonderful doctor for them named Dr. Gribetz.  Patrick, who was 3 ½ when we moved from New York to Northampton Massachusetts was upset by the move and spent all of his time outside riding in a little pedal car doing what he called “going back to New York.” After two weeks of this we got worried and called Dr. Gribetz. He asked how long we had been in Northampton and when I said “two weeks” he replied, wait two more weeks and if he is still doing it call me. A little less than two weeks later, Patrick stopped “going back to New York.” I was enormously impressed by our doctor’s ability to pinpoint just when Patrick would settle down.

 

Ten days ago, I fell in my bathroom and hurt my side. ThatAll Sunday I had an x-ray done and they found nothing wrong structurally. When I got home from the x-ray, my right knee started to hurt and over the following days, it has gotten worse and worse. I had sent a message to my own doctor, who reminds me very much of Gribetz, to tell him about the x-ray and he called me Monday morning. When I told him that my knee was hurting very badly, he said “if you had broken something it would have hurt right away, so it will get better.” Well, as the days went by last week my knee got worse and worse until I could barely walk. I decided that I would wait until today and then go to the same day clinic in order to get it x-rayed. But when I got up this morning, it was markedly better and so now I will wait to see whether it repairs itself as my side did.

 

This is the same doctor who diagnosed me with sciatica over the phone. When you get old, it is nice to have a magician as a doctor.