I Must Be In the Wrong Room

Round 4

I have now completed four rounds of 30. I am just a couple of weeks away from turning 60 and when I realized the potential for losing a great deal of weight with this new lifestyle, I considered that it was possible to lose 60 by 60. The results for round 4 are:

Weight loss this 30: 12 lbs
Total loss:               50 lbs

See, totally doable. And then I went for my bi-annual blood work. You would have to know my doctor to really appreciate this visit and even that is no guarantee that you would. My sister is not a fan of his. But here is a rundown of what happened.


Every visit begins, as I'm sure it does with most doctors, with a weigh-in and, blood pressure and temperature check. Everything was good and the nurse commented on my weight loss. She ushered me to a room telling me that the doctor would be with me shortly.


After a few minutes the door opened and there stood Dr. J, laptop in hand as it always is. He peeked into the room, look at his computer and professed to be in the wrong room. Without closing the door, he stepped back into the hallway and spoke to an unseen person. "What room did you say Ms. Jefferies was in, because she is not in this one." He turned back to me and asked who I was. I knew that he knew, but I played along.




"Joy, um Jefferies."


Looking at his computer again he said, "Nope, I'm looking at a picture of her from about 9 months ago and you look nothing like this picture." With that he came into the room and begin the medical visit in earnest.




He marveled at my blood pressure, which is honestly usually pretty good. He inquired as to how I was losing the weight and he asked about what kind of exercise I was doing. He imputed some information into the computer, turned to me and said, "Well, first off you do not need to lose any more weight. He said that my BMI was 19.5 and should not go any lower. Secondly, he said that I needed to have a bone scan as weight lose and age can weaken the bones. He ended the visit by telling me that it was the best exam and evaluation he had ever done on a patient. He even went to far as to say if he was grading me on health I'd get an A+. I've never had a doctor talk to me like that. It felt good.


Before I could leave I had to have blood drawn to check my thyroid, I'm hypothyroid. As I wanted for the lab tech, all three nurses in the practice came into the room to confirm that what Dr. J had told them about me was true and to congratulate me on the good work. It's nice to have family and friends tell you that you are doing a good job, but when you hear it from medical people, it is pretty cool in a different way.