I found out on Monday that Paul Rudd's kid was coming into the office today, so I've been awaiting the little man's arrival all week. But when son and mom showed up today, the kid started FLIPPING THE FUCK OUT and crying and screaming NOOOOOOOOO I DONT LIKE DOCTOR I DONT LIKE DOCTOR NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO about 2 seconds into the waiting room. I mean he's 4, but I haven't seen many kids react like that before. It took a lot of coaxing for him to get into the exam room. Mom was totally normal, and surprisingly un-babealicious. And he was wearing a SUIT with sneakers!! Celebrity babies!!!
But the best part of my day was after the celebs left for their premiere parties and free facials and gold carriages or whatever. My job today was "back-up scribe", meaning that the newest girl was "scribe" and if the doctor was running late or needed extra help during the day, I was there to back-up. A scribe basically takes notes for the doctor during the exam, gets whatever the doctor needs during the exam (e.g. medicine samples, instruments), writes down all the procedure and diagnosis codes for billing, and then in the end takes the kid out and watches them while the doctor talks to the parents. So the new girl was busy helping some mom, so I got called into the visit of a three year old named Molly. She had bright red hair, put up in pigtails, thick wireframe glasses, and a way too big daffy duck t-shirt on. The doctor, to Molly, was all like GUESS WHAT HER NAME IS and it ends up my name is Mollie too, so we were instant bff. The doctor sent Molly out with me while the parents got the surgery talk. Molly has Duane's syndrome, so she needs eye muscle surgery to prevent her eyes from crossing. It's pretty common, and she'll be just fine, don't you worry.
ANYWAY, we picked out a duckie from the prize drawer, and headed out to the waiting room. Instantly she was like "LETS LOOK FOR TREASURE," and she grabbed a Highlights magazine from the table saying "GOTTA HAVE A MAP!!" She turned the little foam play area into the "boat," saying "I'll sit here and you sit right here with duckie" and with a few "vroom vroom"s and an a few turns of an imaginary steering wheel, Molly, the captain of our fair ship, drove us to the treasure indicated on the map. She said "WE'RE HERE!" and then she'd walk around the room again until she instructed that we needed to get back on the ship for more treasure huntin'. All directed by her, we found some new treasure, and then we went to her home by turning the "boat" into a "car" to visit her sister Ally. She'd call "COME ON MOLLIE!" whenever she decided to go somewhere new in the room. She asked me how old I was but I think 21 is a pretty silly number for a three year old. Some other kids boarded the ship and she tried to explain to them it was a treasure boat but they didn't really follow. She called one of them, Matthew, maybe an old two year old, "a baby." I called her Captain, and she started calling herself Captain. Then, about 15 minutes in, as Molly told me it was my turn to drive the car, and I was turning the fake steering wheel and vroom vrooming, her parents came out. They thanked me, told me they were surprised because "she doesn't do this with anyone," and left.
My biological alarm is going off. Pressing snooze is getting harder and harder.