{My name is Debra, married to my husband Danny. I am a Doctor, and I head up our local medical clinic. Danny writes all the time, I normally don't.
Danny and I both are getting older, and time without fail gets in the way of life. So, there have been some upsets with Danny, and Medicare has spent close to 100K keeping my man alive which I appreciate.
That is a bit strange since Danny is in exceptional physical shape, more virile than most men in their 30's, yet, one thing after another has popped up in the last couple of years.
Thus he has not written much. I did post a couple of very short tales he had written but left in preview, at his request. I had to fix some typos and add a few things so if those are not very good it's probably my fault.
Anyway, Danny is home now, improving very quickly. He is back to 170 pounds now, he was 240 when we first met in my office a decade ago. At 160 pounds, that was a major worry for me, but now, he is showing strength, becoming my Danny again.
He encouraged me to write, telling me I have quite a tale to tell, while laughing as he mentioned some of the antics we have shared. That screwball sense of humor he has shows that he is still Danny in there.
He told me to "write just like you might talk" and it would be just fine. I am not so sure about that, but here is my attempt at my story.}
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I am a Doctor, I run a small medical clinic here on the Oregon coast. At one time, I was a Registered Nurse Practitioner, and quite content. I was mostly running the clinic while Doctor Barker, our required on staff Physician pretended to.
Then Old Doc Barker died, at age 84. His job was to handle any signing off on anything official, our jobs (the rest of us are Nurses) was mostly to keep any attractive females OUT of his office.
That was a standing joke around our clinic, if some lady came in with a sore toe, left to his own devices Doctor Barker would have them gowned up and in the stirrups. We all knew of a few concerns which meant it was a good thing his career spanned that period when no one paid any attention to what Doctors did.
Now in today's world, this can create all sorts of conflicts, and it could even end up with charges. In the medical world of 30-40 years ago, the Doctor got to do just about anything they wanted to. No one said anything, or even mentioned what happened in the Physician's office.
I know for a fact that lots of things happened, but none of us ever said anything, it was just the way it was. Our Doc Barker was a bit of a pervert, he even had some porno magazines hidden in his desk, another standing joke around our clinic.
Plus he smoked his cigars in his office and kept a few bottles of booze in there. He was 84-85 years old (I am not sure on that) when one of the nurses found him in his chair, a cigar still burning in his ash tray, half a shot of Wild Turkey in a glass on his desk. He had just fallen asleep and then was gone, no better way to go in my opinion.
Big problem here, a major shortage of physicians everywhere.
So, the system I work for asked me to take over, fine but I had to be a Doctor. I had planned early on to become one, but after nearly seven years of starving, plus the constant 30 hours and more long shifts towards the end, (you probably think I am kidding about that, I'm not!) I then took a job as a nurse. The pay was less than a Doctor would make but I liked the job.
Since there was only one year left for my degree, our medical system paid for that in exchange for a contract where I agreed to work here for one full decade, run the clinic as the on staff physician.
A bit ahead of myself here, this all happened just a couple years ago, well after Danny and I got married.
The increase in pay would have been enough, them paying for the rest of my schooling was just a bonus. Of course, there is a major shortage of Doctors in this country, the reason of course is that it takes 8-12 years to train a Physician, and the serious shortage affects the small communities more than the large cities.
Larger areas of course pay more, by quite a bit.
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OK. So that is the recent part, how I became a nurse is a story all by itself.
I was in college, my freshman year, studying business. No idea at all what I really wanted to do with my life, like so many just like me.
I was also one of those very rare young ladies, a virgin. Rare because I was almost 19 years old, terribly shy, and the closest I had come to having sex was when a boy got his hand inside my bra after a date once.
I managed to get him to stop, after a struggle. He even had his pants unbuttoned and his penis was sticking out, I had never even seen a real one before, just photos.
That scared me which is why I put up such a struggle. I knew all about how those things could cause pregnancy, plus no one had ever been "down there."
Then weeks later, at a ball game, a young man was sitting not far away, and I realized with a shock that his penis was dangling down out of the edge of his shorts.
I kept looking, then saw that he was looking back at me with a smirk. I blushed, mortified at having been caught, jumped up and ran.
But that was all I could think about, and back at my apartment I masturbated in the bathroom to thoughts of seeing that. Things were changing inside of me, I realized that and it worried me. Suddenly I found myself looking at every boy I saw, wondering what that part of them looked like.
Later, I mentioned seeing him to one of the other girls, she just laughed and told me boys did things like that all the time.
Then my roommate and I got ahold of some pot and were getting stoned, and were talking about boys. I admitted to her that seeing that made me just crazy hot, she laughed and told me I should go to nursing school, I could then see all of those I wanted to.
That was funny, we both laughed but I thought about that for days after.
So, I switched from business to nursing.
Right about that time I was also thinking there was something wrong with me, girls just are not interested in looking and touching. At least I thought so, probably part of my rather sheltered upbringing.
All of the other girls I knew talked about boys and what they had in their pants, how big they were, how hard they got, how long they lasted having sex.