April 4, 2022. Madison, Mississippi. My Family Doctor.

Cathy Gregg has been my doctor ever since we started living in Mississippi, which was 2009. We had asked Christina for a good doctor who specialized in Internal Medicine and we were given Cathy's name. We were a bit starlted when we received information from The University of Mississippi department of Geriatics. Of course, both Ken and I qualified but we had not known that Cathy was a specialist in Geriatrics. Evidently there are not many doctors specializing in that field so Cathy is busy. For many years, Ken and I had our appointments back to back except that I had nothing to say because my health seemed to stay the same while Ken always had issues. Then in 2014 I was seeing my Oncologist regularly and my blood work was done with the Oncologist so again I had little to say to Cathy. After Ken died, I did not see Cathy for a couple of years but then was required to see her every year in order for her to prescribe my medications. So now I see her every year. I am always pleased to see her even though I have nothing to tell her about my health. Today I met Cathy for my annual check up. She askes all the questions and I give her the answers. And we laugh a lot. She gets reports from my Oncologist so she knows how I am doing. And she knows I am 84 so will deteriorate over time. Today I had blood drawn there because Dr. Sheehan wanted to see my blood counts again. Instead of going again this Wednesday to see Dr. Sheehan and have blood drawn on Wednesday, I convinced her to let me have the blood work done when I was seeing Cathy on Monday. Last blood counts showed my platelets were way down so now we will find out if they are better. Now I am set for a new appointment with Dr. Gregg on April 10, 2023. I am all set for another year. By the way: Cathy thought I was doing well even though I was wearing a boot and using a walker. Cathy is eternally optimistic.