Two Posts About Little Things

Still not sure about what goes where between my 15-year-old blog and my new platform on Substack, I have sometimes posted things on both and sometimes only on one. So, bear with me while I try to figure this out.

My two latest posts on acountrydoctorwrites.blog are about very small things.

One post is about two of the smallest muscles in our bodies that protect us from ruptured ear drums and sudden hearing loss from listening to loud music and such things. It was inspired by the 70s music at my high school reunion last weekend in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

The other post is about face mites. I have to confess I was far from knowledgeable about that condition/infestation until a patient of mine, who I was sure had delusional parasitosis, mentioned the word demodex. So I started researching and learned something new. Of Mites and Men is about that (I just LOVE puns).

This is how my mind works: My life connects to my clinical knowledge and therefore inspires my writing and my clinical work inspires me to spend my time off researching things that I then write about.

The other observation from last weekend, besides how our middle ear muscles protect our eardrums, was that the late coming “mystery guest” at the reunion - the High School PA system announcer, had written in his yearbook profile that he wanted to own a radio station some day. Well, after I saw him work the crowd get up on the dance floor and do their thing, I found out that he does in fact own the local rock station in Plymouth.

I, too, knew what I wanted my future to look like: Since age 4 I wanted to be a doctor, and after my exchange student year here I knew I wanted to be in a small New England town. And somewhere in between I decided I wanted to be a writer. Check, check, check.

Some people call it manifestation, some call it quantum physics. Some call it The Secret. I call it knowing what you want and setting goals.