After 3 days of ear pain Gerry insisted I see a doctor so I asked Gary about the doctor that stitched his arm up. He won't appreciate me telling that story because his is much more colourful. Coincidentally there was a potluck at the yacht club and he invited us along to meet her. She's quite the character - 80 years old, still practicing medicine and still flying her 172 Cessna (alone). After chatting with her for a while (she has great stories) she told me just drop in the next morning, any time!
Next morning, it was pouring rain so we didn't leave till after 10 and unbelievably there was only 1 person ahead of me. She loves guts, gore and stitching people up - I was only a little bit sorry that wasn't going to happen with me. She asked if I'd had any operations - the reason? She likes to see other peoples' work. I felt badly that I only had a tonsillectomy to show her - she said they did a good job, I think she was disappointed. The only painful part of all this is that we had to drive all over Freeport looking for a pharmacy that had the prescribed ear drops - only 1 out of 4 did.
Medical update: Since we have medical insurance I had called to tell them I was thinking about going to the doctor so they opened a case file. Weeks later we had to "top up" that coverage and Great West (my company) won't do it. I called 2 companies Manulife (our usual top up company) and CAA only to discover that since I had made a claim (even though not with them) they refused to insure me - for an ear infection??? I called Great West to cancel my claim and they said it was closed since I didn't call them back to say I had seen a doctor. Got Gerry to call CAA back (in case I got the same person) and we now have coverage.
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