Pinkie_Fry

Okay so I've met a few celebrities I've always wanted to meet-- a member of team Starkid and the Nostalgia Critic crew! Heck, Doug even complemented me on my cosplay and asked for MY picture and I helped convince Tamara to do the Tamara's Never Seen on Heathers. Meeting Malcom, Rob and Barney was great too, and I got a personal picture with Malcom! (I'm from Chicago.) I've done average stuff like going to Disney and Universal, (never got a Make-A-Wish though,) and I've gone on three amazing trips-- London, Kenya and Alaska, and I'm going to Italy this summer with my family. I also got into School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and I'm learning how to animate! (I took one course this semester and am taking one fall of 2017, and I have a pitch book for a cartoon getting started.) I'd like to go to France some day, maybe, and I'd love to meet Mat Groening, Alex Hirsh and Lauren Faust. Also on a more mundane note I keep meaning to watch Star Trek TOG and TNG. I also hope to be a comic book artist or have my own animated show one day. I know it's a bit of a boring bucket list but I've had enough near-death experiences that I'm not looking to skydive or anything anytime soon. Also I got a dog this year which has been a childhood dream forever-- she's a rescue named Dodger and I love her very much

One More Edit: I can't believe I forgot to mention this but when I met the Channel Awesome Crew, I also had a really in depth discussion with Jim about prop building and it was honestly incredible. I did stage crew and had made an Audrey II model for my cosplay and he complemented it and we talked about technique, it was really great.

Yes! I have two actually, one on each shoulder blade. It almost looks like where wings could be!

Also I have a zipper club t-shirt, always nice to meet another member!

Well, I always feel a bit out of place in hospitals that aren't my own. I'm followed by Lurie Children's in Chicago and have been since birth-- I was born at another hospital but was quickly sent there for better care, and there I stayed, for the most part. (I think I may have bene at like Northwestern, etc. as a baby, but I'm not completely sure.) Since it's a pediatric hospital, it was generally very child friendly, and the people there were generally very good.

Religious hospitals have a certain culture that I'm not used to, because I come from a secular and mixed religious family, but I don't really mind as long as everyone is nice, I always just feel a bit out of place.

I've never had to been flown out or had to change states for procedures, luckily, but I have had ambulance drives from like my pediatrician's office to the hospital (there was one exciting time where I stopped breathing as a baby in the middle of the waiting room and they couldn't help me at the current doctor,) or from one hospital to another, when I was first born, or when an ambulance sent me to a hospital that wasn't Lurie's.

It sort of depends! Some of the doctors I've had I've had since I was a few weeks old-- my pediatrician is a family friend and had on occasion gotten me and my brother presents for the holidays. I'll be really sad when he retires and/or when I outgrow his care.

Otherwise... meh. The thing is, while I've had my cardiologist, pulmonologist and GI doctor since, again, I was a few months old, they're more like distant relatives? I see them every six months, they ask me how school is doing, and give me a sticker or lollipop. (And take some blood which most relatives probably don't do, but hey, I don't know what your family traditions are.)

Also you get more doctors as you age and develop more issues. I have kidney issues now, possibly because of meds I've takes, (yay...) so I don't know my urologist or nephrologist well becaue I've only had them three years.

You develop more relationships with nurses because they're with you more constantly, but my parents know them better than I do-- I was so young, or on morphine, or just feeling awful, and I'm also bad with names and faces, so I kind of... know that they exist and recognize them by face but I don't know them super well? I've also had awkward times where my mom and I have run into someone on the street and she's like "I was your nurse when you were two and you had that one surgery do you remember me???" and I'm like "... I was two years old and unconscious so no???" (I don't say that, of course, I just kinda go, "Sorry, no, but thanks for taking care of me!" but that's how it feels.)

Also, it's not always doctors and nurses. My parents and I befriended this guy who would clean the bedsheets at my local hospital when I was a little kid-- I barely remembered him but I had pneumonia a year and a half ago and we went back to the hospital, and he knew who I was immediately, and he and my mom started talking like they'd only seen each other yesterday. And once I realized who he was, I grinned and said hi too. I also got really close to some of the receptionists at my pediatrician's office-- one retired recently and she left a voicemail on our phone saying how much she would miss us and how much we meant to her because she'd known us nineteen years, and honestly I'm going to miss her a lot too.

But they are separate groups, and as a whole, I know nurses better than doctors just because they physically care for you more.

EDIT: Voicemail story-- I was in college when this happened and I got some stuff mixed up since I never heard the voicemail, sorry. The receptionist didn't actually leave anything, but she told the other receptionists that she'd miss us and we meant a lot to her, and they told as that. My mom asked for her number so she could leave a voicemail for HER. Sorry, guys, didn't mean to mix that up. I'm still going to miss her though.

yes and no. on one hand it made me a lot more receptive to certain people who seem to have "small" problems-- on days i don't have my cane or my scar isn't showing, i seem able-bodied, so i kinda learned to never doubt anyone saying they were disabled or in pain because i understood that a lot of people who are don't SEEM like they are. at the same time i do roll my eyes a bit when people miss weeks of school for a cold when i would have to go with walking pneumonias and kidney stones. i get that everyone's pain tolerance is different, but i always kinda went "wow i wish that i was healthy enough that i could use sick days for stuff like that."