Posted by sharon7 on January 29, 2009, at 10:14:02
Hey again. I wanted to share what my t does, and i was just curious about the rest of your experiences with it. It's probably a dumb thing even to be curious about, but so far since posting here I have never been made to feel like anything i've said, done, felt, or needed was unreasonable or dumb. (o:
Anyway, my T, she's a little older and I know she gets tired. we all do. (she could run circles around me, though. She's extremely fit and works out daily. I on the other hand, well, let's just say that I do not.) But she's got a really busy schedule and i dont care how fit you are, the work they do is tiring. Okay. To the yawning. Here's what mine does: on occassion, she will need to yawn and you can tell she's doing all she can not to. That's actually more distracting to me than if she would just yawn (I think so, anyway. she's never actually yawned. just tried not to!) I know she's just being considerate of my feelings and that's one reason i think she's so wonderful. I'm also her last appt on the days I see her so i expect she's going to be tired after a long day. I think she's so competent and good at her job, even at her tiredess, she still rocks. Anyway, finally one day I just came right out and told her "Dr (So-n-So,) if you need to yawn, just yawn! i won't think you're bored with me or our discussion. I'll just think you're tired!" She seemed slightly embarrassed by my remark and her response was something like "and you would have been absolutely right about that!" Which was the perfect response! Cuz then I felt good that she told me I was right about something. (I know.. pretty hard up for compliments! It doesn't take much to make me happy.) She might see that differently, though!
She still won't yawn though. I repeated my "just yawn already" line one more time when she was 'fighting one off!' and this time, she had no response, so I won't bring it up again. She's just being considerate, and I think maybe that's something they are trained to do anyway (or maybe it's just common courtesy! Maybe I need to check and see if I'M yawning when people are talking to me! I know I do sometimes, and I will almost always apologize for it, reassure the speaker that I am listening intently to their story and the yawning doesn't mean I'm not interested, because it doesn't. I'm just not getting enough oxygen to my brain!
Thanks everybody. I'll try not to write TOO much today! (blush) I took a 'snow day' from work today. Ahhhhh... feels so good. my dogs and cats aren't complaining, either. Blessings to you all!
- Sharon
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