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Can I just say... WOW!

This morning was awesome... went to consultation with Dr Pepper, my favorite guy, about this surgery. Looks good, and since I am "a pretty girl already" (haha we know how that goes) it will most likely be covered by insurance bc it is being done for mechanical reasons not aesthetic ones. 3 days in the hospital and 6-8 weeks on liquid diet, one year later my jaw will be just like new. So then after that enlightening visit I drove (yes I drove) over to Panera Bread and my dad and I had sort of a date. hehe. Got coffee and a bagel and sat and talked for a good hour. Thennnn, here comes the even awesomer part! Drove back over to the physican, Dr. Garcia who I had not had before. Waited, got weighed (frown) and measured (ditto). He walks thru the door, asks where I go to school and turns to me and says, "are u going into medicine?" I nod. He says, " orthopedics or physical therapy?" I say PT. He says, " well today I am going to try and change your mind. I want you in orthepedic surgery, we need them. So throw that idea of PT out the window, ok?" I was stunned... more like if I wasn't sitting already I would've fallen over! First it was my mom a few months ago who said to me that she saw me as a doctor/surgeon more than a physical therapist. Then it is my friends who tell me and NOW a COMPLETE stranger who had just shook my hand not even 1 min ago and seen my face for the first time who is telling what I am destined to do with my LIFE!

Throughout the exam he kept saying stuff... well with this u gotta be a dective and figure it out why ur skin is such and such, and did u know that ur lumbar back in 8 degrees curved? and what are you doing for this? but inbetweeen alll this normalness he kept saying, "so why pt? if u go for that then u only need a few more credits to complete med school, so that is what u need to do. Have I convinced you enough yet to change your mind?" Then when I told him that I was going to Slippery Rock he was even more excited and told me that their anatomy program is BETTER than any Ivy league school, the only schools with a better program are some med schools!! I was blown away by that tooo! Everything is just fitting in sooooooooo incredibley perfectly for once and I am in awe.

There are certainly no coincident meetings, and having been forced to have my appt with this guy instead of my normal physician may change my life. He also told me on the way out that if I have any questions or concerns while I am away at school, to feel free to call his office anytime of day. Wow. When I was changing back into my clothes he went out to see my dad. He told him that I need to become an orthopedic surgeon and my dad said, "yes, but a pediatric ortho surgeon" and the Doctor practically jumped up and down at THAT! hahaha. I don't know how or what I do or am that makes people like that.

Mrs Donohue knew that I was destined for great things and supported that with all her heart when I was under her eye for 13 years dancing "the dance world would lose a great thing if Meghan did not continue" I think that is why she hasn't responded to my emails all year, bc I stopped dancing. Coach May is doing the same in his own, "take care of this girl" way. Now Dr Garcia who knew me for 5 seconds before blurting out that I need to change my life plan sees something in me. Now that I am completely floating on a cloud, I am looking foward to however many years of schooling it takes to do what I am meant to do! I am sooooo excited!