Day 59: Wall Street Family Practice

 

I went to my medical appointment that was for my work on my weight loss, and got some encouragement to continue.  I also got to say "Good-bye" to Roxie, who has been there since before the twins were born.  She's almost always taken my file and escorted me to my exam room, always cheerful, always helpful.  She and another team member have another clinic that they are already working at part-time, preparing for when the clinic closes due to Dr. Knapp's retirement in September. There wasn't any other doctor to step in to continue the clinic, so it will be shutting its doors.  I still have no idea where I will be going to after September.

It's sad knowing that this was my last appointment there.  I started going to Wall Street Family Practice, back before my first baby was born, and now the doctor is retiring and the clinic is closing.  The hallway walls are painted with flowers and butterflies and cheerful bugs and birds, and now that's all going to be gone.  The entry area with its second door to enter, the waiting room, the little alcove where the scale is kept and where the library used to be, the exam rooms with the wooden cabinets with white hand written sticker labels for the contents (no two exam rooms were alike), the children's waiting area, the lighting, the feel of the place, the scents will be just memories.

Afterwards, I walked to the library and got some stuff.  Getting stuff from the library when I'm melancholy or otherwise sad is like retail therapy, only I'm not spending any money until the overdue fines come up.

I drove to Miller's Landing, where I did my walk.  I didn't time it, but I'm sure that the mile and a half walk for me is at least half an hour.  Doing the walk is good medicine, but it's less exciting than a visit to the dentist, where at least there's a number of various magazines to flip through, The History Channel to watch, and a sense of accomplishment when through.

No on-line photo available of the clinic's outside or insides.  Bummer.
http://www.wallstreetfamilypractice.com/ 

Here's a Google street view:
https://goo.gl/V9nb12