A Funny Doctor

I am so disappointed, my body. You should have done better. After getting a flu shot last week, I caught a cold. Since when was I so weak, not even being able to fight off small amounts of flu virus? I was about to stop breathing because of that flu virus when I visited near-by hospital to request some help. I went to that hospital about 10 times before this, so I almost made friends with the doctor. This made me very comfortable to be in a hospital but at the same time very embarrassing at the thought that I got sick too much. I hated to be seen as a ‘weak person who comes to the hospital so often’. As a matter of fact, he doesn’t even look at me, for he knows how old am I, or what kind of things are going on that constantly makes me sick. He just glanced at me for a second and suddenly pressed a point right in the middle of my neck. I almost screamed at the surprise and extreme pain of that. He then grumbled some mysterious words to himself, and sat down again in his seat. Pulling out a huge, blue book that looked like the one I would never read with my own will, he mumbled,

“This is the hidden secret of my business sales.”

“What?!”

“I’m telling you the extractions of my 10 year study”

Oh my god, he is trying to make a lecture when I had so much homeworks at home. I wanted to say ‘no thank you’ and come back home, I just couldn’t do it when I saw the serious look on his face.

Then he started to explain how the body works. I don’t remember exactly what he said, but roughly, he told me several tips about relieving stress and relaxing my tense muscles by stretching. On the page he opened, there were three simple sketches of human head and neck, which were probably drawn to let the reader understand the following things: The nerves of shoulders are on the middle of your neck. When you shrink forward when you are studying, not only your shoulders will hurt but also your neck, which leads to hardening of your brain and pains on your eyes. Wow! I finally found out why these places hurt at the same time! For the first time, I admired my doctor, and said thank you several times. This pretty long time was perfectly worth it. Now that he told me why I always felt something heavy on my head and shoulders and told me exactly what to do, I was free of all kinds of pain. I wish all the doctors in the world would always be like this one. Yay! Thank you again, sir.