To help pursue this dream, Grace was reading a lot of nursing books, including holistic and herbal remedies.
Sometimes this knowledge has been useful. She is always the first to rally around the child who has a sliver, a headache or a tummy ache.
But, sometimes this knowledge has been dangerous, as well as hilarious. Each article becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy as she thinks of all her aches, pains, rashes and fevers and assumes the worst.
If her medical books can’t help her, she turns to the internet, the source of all things factual and useful.
Purple spots on her hands led to a freakish self-diagnosis of AIDS after reading sufferers get purple malignant spots because they can’t fight off disease. She jumped around the dining room, waving her hands so much I couldn’t even focus on the purple spots.
Leg cramps led to a self-diagnosis of polio, accompanied by animated discussions about FDR and his accomplishments from a wheelchair.
One night, a small white, painful spot on the inside of her bottom lip led her to this disastrous conclusion.
“Mom, I think I have lip cancer,” she hyper-ventilated as she pulled the bottom lip out for inspection. We shooed her away from blocking the view of our new 50 inch plasma TV, where her father and I had plopped ourselves for the first time in months to watch a movie together, offered her some Anbesol and sent her to bed.
While sitting in a doctor’s office, I diagnosed Grace’s real disease from an article I naughtily tore out of a magazine. I never do that, honestly, even if I really, really, really want the recipe.
I just couldn’t help myself. A cure can only come after a diagnosis, right?
when I die in my sleep someday, you're going to wish you didn't make sun of me so much. 🙂
Hahahaha…what a classic story! Very funny and cute! xxx
Miss Amazing Grace is enrolled at a technical college to get her AA as a Medical Assistant. She will be done with high school and tech college at 18. If she wants to go for more school, she will be able to work in the medical field along the way. She is doing SO well, she got a few 100%s already on quizzes. She is an airhead, yes, but a brilliant one!
haha! I got a good laugh when I read this. Before I started school (specifically psychology class!), my mom, who is a nurse, sat me down and told me "No matter what you read in text books you do NOT have any diseases, disorders, or other illnesses." Good thing! Studying in the medical field, it seems that one can have the symptoms for any and everything.
I laughed several times reading this. I wonder how much doctors hate the internet?
YAY for Nurses! It is a profession that is easy to use for the Lord!!Is she continuing to pursue this career?
oh Miss Grace. Good blog!!!!