The things your loved ones put up with

On Treatment
Written By Liz Salmi
Melanie is my best friend, and she was helping me try on clothes since my shoulder is still stiff from surgery.
If you were in the ladies dressing room at Macy's today, you may have overheard this conversation between Mel and I.
Liz: Oh, don't look at my underwear. I didn't realize when I was getting dressed this morning that we'd be out shopping and you'd end up with me in the dressing room.
Mel: Whatever, Liz. I've seen your ass in a hospital gown.
Liz: What?! Oh, yeah. Well, at least I was wearing full-coverage underwear then.
Mel: No you weren't. You weren't wearing any underwear.
And then I thought for a moment.
Oh, yeah. They make you take off everything except for the hospital gown when you have brain surgery.
Oh. My. God. What has she seen?!
Poor, poor, Mel.
Liz Salmi

Liz Salmi is Communications & Patient Initiatives Director for OpenNotes at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Over the last 15 years Liz has been: a research subject; an advisor in patient stakeholder groups; a leader in “patient engagement” research initiatives; and an innovator, educator and investigator in national educational and research projects. Today her work focuses on involving patients and care partners in the co-design of research and research dissemination. It is rumored Liz was the drummer in a punk rock band.

https://thelizarmy.com
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