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Words of wisdom for Veteran’s Day from my VA primary care provider, who should know.
Melinda’s a jock. She’s an endurance runner, the kind of tiny, tightly-muscled badass runner who can knock off a 100- mile race.
She’s also a nurse. My Nurse Practitioner, in fact, at the VA clinic near my house. I love working with her because after a lifetime of being referred to as “Mr. Hubbel” in the Veteran’s Administration, despite the fact that I have tits and a vagina, in Melynda’s office, I’m a woman. Not just that, but seriously engaged in my health care and being at the top of shape for as long as I can.
What breath of fresh air.
You have no idea.
Last week I went to see her with a laundry list of the usual: cranky knees, creeping arthritis, garden variety stuff that she and I deal with all the time as athletes who push hard. My guess is that Melynda is in her late thirties or early forties.