DOCTOR

In the 4 years we have been wandering we haven't had to see a doctor except in Iowa for our regular checkups. Well it changed today. The last couple of days my one eye has been a little irritated. Each day it seemed to get a little worse and being in the sun made it worse. Last night I was looking at my eye in the mirror and saw a cloudy film over the top third of my eye with a white spot in the center. (the good eye) It looked similar to when I would get inflammation of the cornea. When I got up this morning I told Vern we were going in have to find a doctor. He looked at me and wondered what was wrong. I told him and he grab the computer and went to our insurance web site and started a search for a doctor. It is scary to go to a new doctor when you have problems with your eyes and they don't know your history. The search came up with 27 names. Oh boy which one to pick. Vern read through all the info we had and picked a group of 5 doctors that was associated with a hospital. They also said they would take new patients. I called about 8:45 and got an appointment for 10:00. When we got there I had forms to fill out and then we waited and waited. When we finally were called back they told us the doctor had done surgeries on Wednesday and was seeing the patients for checkups today and was running a little behind. I was just glad he was working me in. We were impressed with Dr. Peterman and I would see him again. He looked at my right eye and said I had an infection in my eye and put me on an antibiotic and a muscle relaxant. He also checked out my left eye. After a couple of seconds he started listing off all the problems I had in that eye. While Dr. Peterman was making notes and writing out my prescriptions Vern was telling him about a problem he had and Dr. Peterman told him to hop into the chair and he would have a look. I have never heard of a doctor doing that before. He saw two of us and only charged us for one. Vern said he would definitely see Dr. Peterman again.