Dang it, why now?! I already got sick once last month! A part of me wanted to stay home from work, but I didn't want to look like a slacker so I ignored the fever and drove to Dr. KB's office. There, I took my temperature (100 degrees F) and tried my best not to look like I wanted nothing more than to lie down someplace and sleep. It was pretty tough. All day I felt like I was burning up, and sometimes I had headache and occasional nausea, but I tried not to let it show. I originally planned to ask Dr. KB if I could leave after lunch, but there were 2-3 manip cases in the afternoon and Dr. KB hinted that I could learn something from it. 
So during lunch, I went to one of the patient rooms, lay on the table, and took a nap.The manip cases were good ones; I was able to fix a woman's hip all by myself.
I think I'm more comfortable with pelvic techniques than lumbar and thoracic techniques. One other patient we had was a 2-year-old boy who was both tall and heavy for his age, but developmentally delayed. His mother was worried that he was autistic, especially after reading articles about how immunizations can supposedly cause autism. *sigh* When Dr. KB tried to examine him, he screamed up a storm, and later the patient next door jokingly asked us what we were doing to that poor boy. After he calmed down, the office manager took him to meet Max, the office's therapy dog. Max was a good sport =)So now I'm just hoping to go to bed early and hopefully have no fever when I wake up tomorrow.
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