Awareness of the outside world. Fifty years ago last Wednesday. “One of the most watched televised sporting events of all time, no tennis match before or since has been seen by so many.” Billie Jean King: Battle of the Sexes.
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Time: mid-1960s.
Scene: New York City emergency room
I was 5 years old, give or take. I had a misunderstanding with my finger and a heavy steel fire door. I needed a minor adjustment to have the pressure taken off the nailbed. I will leave you to imagine where this falls in the triage priority of a major metropolitan ER.
The procedure was to heat up a paper clip and poke two holes in the nail. It probably was more medically technical, but that was the idea.
I have a strong visual memory of lying on a hospital bed in a room with my mother and a nurse.
A third woman walks in.
She says she’s here to treat me.
I announce loudly …
I don’t want her. I want a real doctor!
Wherever that ER doc is today, I’m so sorry.
Onwards!
Katherine
Virtual Brush Box 
Eons ago.
Mom
… in so many ways.