Hello everybody! My name is Will, and I serve as an intern for WWAD in our accounting department. I'm an incoming sophomore at Miami University in Oxford, OH and I've only been at Walk with a Doc for a few weeks. It's been fun, our cafeteria serves really good soup. Kathryn has been tied up with meetings all week and asked if I would be willing to write Dr. Sabgir's Friday email (from his CPU). You're probably surprised that it's not him writing and I'm sorry. Pretty easy explanation.

The walk has been growing pretty quickly, but David has shared during Check Out Rounds (a fifteen minute meeting we have at 3:30 everyday) that he's looking for ways to increase the 'market share" - you know, get more people out. You know, get involved with a larger variety of activities. In what he calls his reconnaissance ("Recon") efforts, he attended the Monday 7:30 Zumba class uptown this week (gray stone building just south of Panera). His plans were, and I doubt remain, to start Zumba with a Doc.

Anyway, a couple minutes into Rachel's class he must have turned wrong and he went down, most unfortunately dislocating his left hip. I apologize because I know he tries to make his emails funny, and this is of course, not funny. For whatever it's worth, everybody was impressed that he was screaming in Spanish while down. Because he was wearing traditional Latin attire, I think they thought he was kidding. I wasn't there, but apparently he refused any help in getting back to his feet. When he was finally able to stand, as luck would have it, his right knee gave out. Ugh, the radiology report reads "relatively large bucket tear of the right medial meniscus". Now, when he went

back down (for the second time) he hit his right eye. It must have hit pretty hard. He needed 17 stitches and, unfortunately, it's still swollen shut as of Thursday night (I saw him last night to find out what he wanted in the email). The hospital nurses feel it's a good "learning experience" for Dr. Sabgir to be on the other side of things. They have been trying to create the "true" inpatient experience and have been changing his Foley every 4 hours. He shared he did not "appreciate" this and actually wondered why he needed a urinary catheter to begin with. He was also concerned that every time he asks for pain medication they are giving him Flintstones Vitamins - saying that the Bam-Bam's were the strongest and he could only take one every 6 hours. He then asked me if all the laughing and cackling at the nurse's station was directed towards him. I didn't know the answer. 

He shared that he didn't want any sympathy. He's determined to have a rapid recovery and has watched

Rocky IV seven times since his falls.  

He did want me to thank everyone for their concern. He also asked that in exchange for cards or flowers you go walk (with a doc?), bike, or even Zumba for a total of 150 minutes this week.  Walk with a Doc sites this week are currently posted on the company's website,www.walkwithadoc.org.

Just click on the black shoes and you will see a list of locations, times, and leaders. I hope you have a good day. Please join us this weekend if you are able.  

Sincerely,

Will

 

William G. Finakapolous