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January 17, 2005
My P.T.'s Cruisin'
I hurt my ankle in May and it isn’t getting any better very fast. A doctor at the Vanderbilt Student Health Center prescribed physical therapy (PT) twice a week. My physical therapist, Julie, is great. She is very kind, caring, and sympathetic. She’s just nice and I enjoy visiting with her. Julie has, however, a physical therapy student. Travis (or Timothy or Thomas or some sort of “T” name) is in his final semester and is doing his clinical experience, which I equate to student teaching. Travis/Timothy/Thomas is not very personable and not even all that knowledgeable, but he is assigned to work with me because I’m a “typical” case.
While Thomas/Timothy/Travis was working on my ankle today, we small-talked a bit. He discovered that I was the same age as he is. He then found out that I’m a Vanderbilt student and he told me all about the University of Mississippi where he went to school. He found out that I lived in Nashville (imagine that—I certainly wouldn’t be driving to Nashville if I lived in Chattanooga or someplace) and revealed that he, too, lived in Nashville. Then he popped the question: would I like to go out to dinner with him sometime?
Julie, my lovely middle-aged PT, must have radar ears. She bustled over quickly from across the busy room and reprimanded him for making a pass at a patient. He put his head down, apologized, and shuffled off to work on a man with an injured neck. Julie mothered me for a bit and told me that she wouldn’t let Timothy/Travis/Thomas work on me again if it made me feel uncomfortable.
Even though I’m not interested at all in the guy, it was nice for him to ask. I just feel so guilty because he got in trouble. Poor guy. I just hope it’s not awkward when I go in again on Wednesday. Maybe he'll be busy with someone else...
Posted by Anna at January 17, 2005 08:14 PM
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Timothy, Tommy, Teddy... Now, had his name been Terminator... :)
It is kind of bad ethics to ask patients out to dinner, though, or? One could lose a job for something like that here. From the bright side, you could get PT with Julie from now on instead :)
Posted by: Flip at January 18, 2005 07:29 AM
But maybe that's the only place that he meets nice [presumes Anna is nice:)] girls? - or anybody?
Posted by: Joe at January 24, 2005 10:02 AM