8 | The Old and the New

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"Can you take your coat, shoes and socks off, & hop up onto the scale here?"

I step onto the scale on the height measurer and Dr. Kim gently pushes me backwards, raising my chin with his finger before clicking a button that causes the head platform to come down.

It gently touches my head before it goes back up with a beep sound to accompany it.

I step off and he reads out the results.

"5"11 and 62kg. Perfect weight for your height."

"Come sit down on my bed here."

The doctor pats the bed with a relaxed smile on his face.

I shrug my coat off onto my seat and trudge over to the indicated.

I push myself onto the bed, settling with my legs dangling off the side.

"I'll just take your pulse first, yeah?"

He takes my hand and gently holds it with one hand, using the two fingers of his other hand to feel for my pulse.

What if he sees the scars?

He's silent, which I take as a good sign. I glance at Ryewook, who gives me an encouraging smile.

"Okay, good. I was counting your respirations as well while I was doing that."

He writes something down on his clipboard before putting his pen down and taking my hands, looking closely at the palms, before flipping them over and examining the backs of my hand.

He looks at my nails as well, before gently placing my hands back in my lap.

He writes his results down, then he takes a thermometer, putting a sleeve over the probe and switching it on.

"Open your mouth."

I obey and he gently slides the thermometer under my toungue.

I close my mouth and he guides my hand up to my mouth so I can hold the thermometer.

Dr. Kim takes a blood pressure cuff from a rack behind me and unstraps it.

"It will be a little tight but it won't hurt."

He straps it around my bicep, before blowing it up and placing the stethescope bell under it.

He's silent again as he listens.

He then unstraps it and then attaches it on the rack again.

He takes the thermometer from my other hand, and glances at it.

"37.1. Normal."

He takes the sleeve off and throws it away, before putting the thermometer down.

He takes a wooden lollipop stick out from it's packet, which he throws away.

He then takes a penlight from his pocket.

"Open your mouth again for me."

I open my mouth slowly and he clicks the light on and places the stick on my tongue first.

"Say 'Ah'.

I repeat the sound obediently, which Dr. Kim nods in response to, and takes the stick and stretches out each side of my gums with it before taking the equipment out of my mouth.

I close my mouth gently.

He takes a otoscope from the rack and clicks it on, shining the light onto his hand first, before looking up.

"Can you turn your head slightly to the side?"

He then proceeds to stick the thing in my one of my ears first, and then the other.

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