Guess who I met

The end of the year is so close I can taste it! Nine more days with the kids, two workdays and I throw off my teacher disguise and become a full time writer for the summer. I can really get tons done when I have the house to myself for the day. I wrote over 14,000 words on the next book just over the Memorial Day weekend while Nick was away golfing.

I’m doing the A-Z challenge over at the Reading Room. It begins today and I’ll be posting over there every day this month – quite a challenge. Many others will be posting daily too and you can find their links there. I will be posting here at New Beginnings also, I’ll be here as long as anyone cares to come. But I’d also like to increase my readership there, so please stop by both blogs whenever you have the time.

As I posted the results of the MRI were just fine – no problems at all (had a mammogram done too and that was fine, so I’m heading into summer with those two test behind me.) But the original problem, the fact that I can’t hear worth crap out of my left ear still needs to be addressed.

The doctor said I looked like a good candidate for an implanted hearing aid. Does that mean I look rich? I’m not, and I do wonder what it would cost. He’s never used the words cochlear implant, but I’m wondering if it’s something like that. It’s attached to the skull and then you wear a device behind your ear, which can be taken off. It all seems interesting and I have an appointment to find out more in July. I’ll be googling it, but if any of you know anything about it, please let me know.

The best part of the doctor visit occurred with the nurse. The nurse was young, mid-twenties I’d guess. She took my temp and blood pressure and we talked a bit. I told her I’d be retiring in a few years and she asked what I’d do then. I told her I was a writer and I was looking forward to doing more writing.  She asked me what I wrote and I thought, heck she doesn’t know anyone I know, and I whipped out a card and gave it to her. It has the three covers on the back. She took it and looked at it carefully before slightly gasping, “Oh my God…” My first thought was that she may have see one of my blogs, when she stepped out from behind the laptop and held out her name tag, “Cassie”.

We both laughed. I told her my Cassie was much older, but she might enjoy her anyway. I always suggest to a vanilla that they go to Amazon and read the first chapter for free. It will give them the general flavor of the book and they can then decide if it’s for them.

Later as I was leaving she caught me in the hall and said she and the other nurses wanted to know where they could get the books and I told them. Many young people think they don’t like reading and so they don’t have a kindle, but they have phones and ipad so… I think I’m looking forward to my next visit. Will I see her again, will she say anything, will she be embarrasses, will I?

Not me – there are still things in this world that embarrass me, but not my writing. I have all of you to thank for that. You have truly built my confidence with all your comment and well wishes.  I do thank you for that very much.