No Patients

In my normal life, I have patients from 9 to 5 without a break for lunch or coffee, and I am intense and preoccupied and overwhelmed. I guess I ought to enjoy this moment of repose, but instead I am anxious and agitated that I have one patient a day this week. I forced myself to call almost everyone I had been seeing regularly before I left to inform them that I was back and available for appointments. I left messages and heard from a handful and scheduled a few during the next few weeks. When I closed my practice a year ago, I referred most of my patients to a nurse practitioner at my old office. I had signed a physician collaborator agreement with her and she was supposed to pay me a percentage of her earnings, but she reneged on the agreement and does not appear to want to refer back my patients. On the other hand they are not my patients anymore, so I cannot demand them back.

I have no doubt I will be busy in a month or so, but for today I spent the early morning with Eric going through the cricket infested garage at Daphne's house to find my prescription pads and patient information. I saw my first and only patient, and then met Sharon at Seven West for a Greek Salad. My afternoon was devoted to organizing the office.

We had invited Daphne and Julien and Belina and Marius to the house for dinner. Maya, after her ballet class and violin practice spend the afternoon with Belina. I cooked a zucchini soup and spaghetti with Italian sausage sauce and an amazing blueberry cobbler. It felt good to have the house full of people.

We sent Elmer home with the Benichous. I am allergic to him and my eyes are itchy and painful and it may be that I cannot live with him. Eric does not want the dog and Daphne does not want him, so there is some concern about what is best for him and for us.

I took a late yoga class and found Eric and Maya asleep on her futon when I got home. I am a little energized and wonder if I will be able to sleep.