Recently in the space of a week I have had to handle 2 frightening medical emergencies. One day I baby sat a 5 month old baby who had a massive episode of epilepsy and at time of paramedics arriving had difficulty breathing.
3 days later my own child had a spontaneous pneumothorax and ended up in the same hospital seeing the same A & E doctor.
when I mentioned that the doctor recognised me, despite arriving with 2 different patients, my co worker commented that doctor would have recognised me because 'you're very big'
I am trying to be charitable, and consider that while I am rather tall and overweight, and perhaps this was a unexpected slip of the tongue.
However I do like to think that in common with every other human in the world, I have an individual face.
oh, and have been back in hospital with my child with another separate life threatening reaction. co-workers comment on 'well the body knows what's wrong with it, I am the same with sugar' was meant well, and I suspect that its hard to say the right thing sometimes.
perhaps I am being over sensitive as am feeling quite feeble in the head recently. I have to mention the reasons why I have been absent from work, but am trying to avoid overly talking about it. iyswim mainly because I might end up sobbing in the stationary cupboard.