Paging Dr. Uvlov...

Came back from lunch to work and I had a message waiting. Listened to it. Rolled jaw back up. I Attempted to forward the message to myself for future playback, but I can't from my office phone system. I even attempted to put receiver of the cell phone to the ear of my work phone; but this came out garbled. So I will transcribe it directly to my blog and reread later.

"Hi Andrew, this is (xxxxx) from Dr. (xxxxx)'s office. Um. I don't know... if this is wildly inappropriate, or if you're... ah... ok. If you're offended by this-- don't take offense. I just wanted to... give you my phone number. It's (xxx-xxx-xxxx). Ah, if you... I'm sorry if this is offensive. I just... I don't know. I just wanted to give it to you in case... you wanted to call me? But if not? Then forget this ever happened. Thanksbye. Click."

Background to this? There is none. This is the girl who works in the office of the internal medicine physician who fixed me when I had pneumonia; the first time she met me, I was delirious with a 104 fever and wearing 2 layers of hooded sweatshirts, wet cargo pants, and coughing blood like I was about to keel over with consumption. The next time there 2weeks later, I bounced into the office all healthy she did this sort of doubletake and said "oh my god, you're like a totally different person now!" But that's it, I've only ever scheduled appointments with her. Then this morning I called the office because the doctor referred me to a good dermatologist and I needed a referral form... and 3 hours later I get this message. No flirting, no small talk to forshadow it. Just out of the blue, a cutely awkward and uncomfortable number-give to the voice mail of the contact info in my record, talking very soft so nobody else in her office could hear. Does this even happen?? And do you call back your doctor's receptionist? I mean, I handed this girl a vial of warm pee once!