Bruce is a long lyme disease saga and maybe
I’ll try to write a short story describing
his 26 year bout with lyme:
the time we took him to the Famous Lyme Doctor
Richard Horowitz MD who also treated
the Dalai Lama he wrote a famous book
I tried to read not easy to write a readable book
about lyme unless you’re Atul Gawande.
When Bruce could see better
he read a book 3 summers in a row called
Seeing Without Glasses (he couldn’t).
In June he found
an infectious diseases doctor he liked at
Columbia Presbyterian who said he had to take
IV antibiotics for 4 weeks starting now.
I’ve had many conversations with his doctor
whose name is Ben. Ben has possibly
the worst office staff at Columbia Presbyterian.
Peter tried to help one day and he said
he’d find a social worker liaison there who
could be our go between. He dialed a number
and handed me the phone and a woman
who sounded like a good relative of mine
older woman, patient, maybe even a Socialist
said Tell Me Everything my
favorite phrase in the English language
and I told her about Bruce’s lyme disease
and Ben’s difficult staff and Richard Horowitz
and the Dalai Lama and she listened and made
appropriate sounds and in the end she
said You know I’m in billing right?
I didn’t but I asked for her name and
sent her a thank you
note. I hope she gets it.
Great story and punchline. I'm so sorry for what you're going through.
Yes, bless the woman in Billings Dept. I’m sure Esther made the conversation interesting. Marlyn