Once Upon a Time…I went to the OB for my weekly cervix check and he diagnosed me as having a double ear infection.
Can you do the math on that one? I mean, I’m not doctor but…
(Hee.)
But seriously! I told him my ears were hurting because I was there and he had the Rx pad in his pocket and I figured if he could, he would just prescribe me an antibiotic and I’d be on my way and NOT have to wait at the doc-in-the-box down the road for three hours to get the SAME prescription. If they’d even give me one without making me call my OB first.
Luckily - I was right. He had no problem giving me the antibiotic. Unfortunately, he didn’t have the right tools on hand at first to check my throat or my ears since he is an OB, who rarely has to look into throats OR ears. So, he first told me to, “Open up and say, ‘ahhhh’” as he used the LIGHT THEY SHINE BETWEEN YOUR LEGS to look into my throat.
Please tell me that’s as hysterical to everyone else as it is to me! Now - it wasn’t unsafe or anything, he was plenty far back and it didn’t even seem gross. I’m just saying, it was weird. He was taking the light he usually aims between a woman’s legs and SHINING IT IN MY FACE. It took every bit of will power I could must not to crack up laughing.
It is just me, isn’t it?
No, that is really some seriously funny stuff, right there. Things like that and your willingness to admit to a dirty shower (most times) and having never cleaned your baseboards are in large part why I dig your blog more than most. Truly.
no - i agree, that is pretty darned funny.
glad you got the Rx though; and hope you get to feeling better soon. 
Oh no no no, this is not just you. This would CRACK ME UP. I seriously don’t think i could look at him with a straight face when he pulled up the coochy light to take a look in my throat! You’re totally right, it is a logical thing…but still…it’s the coochy light!
No, that’s just funny. Especially as I was reading quickly and my eyes saw, “open up and say ‘ahhh’” and my brain was still back there at cervix check and well, yes, that was very funny. But I love double duty doctors, so yay!
Nope. You’ve got me laughing over the visual too.
It is SO not just you.
Clearly not just you, and I wouldn’t have been able to stop laughing long enough for him to see my throat!
That is hilarious! At least he did give you some meds after doing such a thing. That’s just too funny.
So not just you. You made me laugh out loud!
Haha that is quite funny!
I bet if he has a blog he would blog about it too! I say funny, very funny.
Um…when I had he follow up appointment after the lowercase was born, I thought I might have strep throat and since my perinatologists’ had an office in the hospital that the NICU was in…Yes, yes I did have my throat swabbed by people who usually swab….other regions
(And yes, yes it is funny, in both instances!)
ha! awesome!
I honestly probably woulda cracked up in his face.
I wonder what he might’ve used for a tongue depressor.
I would have SO cracked up right there and then!
Nope. That’s some funny stuff. I’m still chuckling and imagining it happening to me because that is how my world works (need to feel better about your day? check out how I showed my butt to most of Nashville yesterday without my knowledge).
Oh no - that’s funny alright
But ever-so-slightly…ewww. Just a little ewww, but a bit of an ewww.
That is AWESOME. I am laughing as I type!
totally not just you.
I was afraid you were going to say it involved a speculum.
hehe…I agree with the other comments. That is pretty funny.
You think it’s funny? If only that light could talk !!! Hahahah!!! But, did you have to lay on the table backwards with your arms in the stirrups or anything like that??
Okay, perhaps I took this too far ….
It’s so not you. I just snorted vodka out my nose reading about it.
Oops, sorry, you can’t have vodka, can you?
I totally found that hilarious. In fact, I laughed so loudly that my roomie asked “what just happened?”
oh man…..I would have laughed…..hysterically….and then had the baby. and laughed some more.
That’s funny right there, I don’t care who you are! I just about spewed Diet A&W on my keyboard!
That is quite funny!!!
My friend gave birth at the beginning of April to a beautiful amazing baby girl. The baby was in the play cot thing (dont really know how to describe it) and my friend’s husband walked past it and picked up this doll from the floor next to it. Well the doll is about baby size and the hubby had picked it up by the ankle. My friend just stood there in total shock thinking that it was the baby that her hubby was carrying around by the ankle!
Oh no I totally would have laughed. That sheds a whole new light on things! LOL
OMG What a hoot. You get a medal for totally not losing it,
old joke (or, just the punchline):
“Nurse, I asked for a BUTT LIGHT.”
Thanks, I’m here all night, tip your waitress.
That is hilarious!
At least you know he is resourceful!
That is indeed funny, and if it happened to me, I’d be laughing about it for days.
During one of my early prenatal visits, while pregnant with my now-3-year-old son, my hubby and I came thisclose to trading places on the table so that the doc would get a BIG surprise when he spread ‘em and shined his light in there. But we didn’t do it. . .
Thanks for the laugh! I’m not sure if I would have been able to hold back the laughter if it happened to me!
I got an ear infection during pregnancy #2. My OB said he couldn’t even check his kids’ ears! Ear infections can be tricky to diagnose. They don’t all look the same.
That is pretty funny, though!