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Hey Simon and Theodore! Look at me!
If you had to pick, with which cartoon character would you want people to confuse you? I know it’s an odd question, but go with me here. I always had my eye on Beauty (as in Beast), or even the Little Mermaid. I could, if I had to settle for a member of the animal kingdom, but even then it would have to be a starlet, like Minnie or Miss Piggy. But to my complete horror, I was informed by a 5 year-old this week that I, and I quote, “sound like a chipmunk. Alvin, mostly.”
Well, at least I got the leader. That’s something. Seriously, this comment left me a bit confused. It was just another day at the hospital and I was helping one of the trainee doctors sew up a little boy’s face. He’d had an altercation with a wall and the wall had prevailed. Anyway, the trainees were tempted to put him to sleep for the repair but I managed to convince them that a calm attitude and a lot of numbing medicine would do the trick. Then I gloved up and started injecting the anesthetic shot, chatting and joking and doing my best to distract the little wallbanger.
And that’s when he announced, to the embarrassment of his father and the absolute delight of the other doctors and nurses, that I remind him most of Alvin the Chipmunk. Apparently he owns several of their DVDs and went on to describe the riveting storylines involving 3 Chipmunks and their proud human.
I’ll admit, I wasn’t feeling terribly flattered but he was happily chatting and I was able to finish the injection and assist the trainee doctor with the sutures. It wasn’t until we had completely finished and his head was swathed in bandages that I actually finally realized what he meant. And then I felt immensely better.
I’m not actually a squeaky rodent. I’m American. My patient was British.
Alvin and I share an accent, not a pitch or frequency.
I love kids.
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