How do you deal with random thoughts and stay professional!
This morning I had an early consultation (an appointment before I opened my shop properly) with a senior gentleman who was a little perturbed by a problem with very sore looking athlete 's foot. There are several remedies to this ordinarily but with his skin so broken and angry looking I asked him if he had been to see his doctor.
He told me he hadn't seen a doctor since his wife had died, and my thoughts ran away with me at all the permutations of his statement until during the latter half of our conversation I found out his wife had died during childbirth forty years before! Again my random thinking grasped at the ramifications for him, and how much of a risk many would think he had been running not seeing a doctor for so long!
During the conversation he told me his cure all is cognac! I smiled and he went on that the French call it the water of life, and I agreed with him it has its place in historic terms as a remedy to many things (alcohol is a poison which sparks our immune system into overdrive, and we use lots of salt in our body to fight the poison often destroying any other short term ailment we might have, colds and the like!). He added he has onions and garlic a lot too!
I treated his athletes foot broken skin with a claybased ointment and I told him I would look into what else could be done if he would call again on Monday.
He told me he hadn't seen a doctor since his wife had died, and my thoughts ran away with me at all the permutations of his statement until during the latter half of our conversation I found out his wife had died during childbirth forty years before! Again my random thinking grasped at the ramifications for him, and how much of a risk many would think he had been running not seeing a doctor for so long!
During the conversation he told me his cure all is cognac! I smiled and he went on that the French call it the water of life, and I agreed with him it has its place in historic terms as a remedy to many things (alcohol is a poison which sparks our immune system into overdrive, and we use lots of salt in our body to fight the poison often destroying any other short term ailment we might have, colds and the like!). He added he has onions and garlic a lot too!
I treated his athletes foot broken skin with a claybased ointment and I told him I would look into what else could be done if he would call again on Monday.
