Comments on: Keeping Your Legs Crossed in an Italian Hospital http://www.msadventuresinitaly.com/blog/2007/01/31/keeping-your-legs-crossed-in-an-italian-hospital/ My Stomach and the World. Food, Recipes, Travel and Photography by Sara Rosso. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:53:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cheryl http://www.msadventuresinitaly.com/blog/2007/01/31/keeping-your-legs-crossed-in-an-italian-hospital/comment-page-1/#comment-42940 Cheryl Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:37:10 +0000 http://blog.sararosso.com/index.php/2007/01/31/keeping-your-legs-crossed-in-an-italian-hospital/#comment-42940 Thanks for sharing your excellent story. While reading it, I could feel my knees slamming shut like the spring-loaded mechanism on a mouse trap! I have hard enough time with the American gyn's, male or female. Ugh... If I could make them perform a pelvic exam in Braille with only the light from one small candle, I would. I'm sure it was mortifying for you at the time. I imagined the women reading your post at once, shaking there heads in sympathy and smiling broadly. Thanks for sharing your excellent story.
While reading it, I could feel my knees slamming shut like the spring-loaded mechanism on a mouse trap!
I have hard enough time with the American gyn’s, male or female. Ugh…
If I could make them perform a pelvic exam in Braille with only the light from one small candle, I would.
I’m sure it was mortifying for you at the time. I imagined the women reading your post at once, shaking there heads in sympathy and smiling broadly.

]]> By: Nic http://www.msadventuresinitaly.com/blog/2007/01/31/keeping-your-legs-crossed-in-an-italian-hospital/comment-page-1/#comment-2518 Nic Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:53:19 +0000 http://blog.sararosso.com/index.php/2007/01/31/keeping-your-legs-crossed-in-an-italian-hospital/#comment-2518 Wow, I love the way you describe this, though I understand it must have been awkward. And I hope you are ok and everything turned out to be well. Wow, I love the way you describe this, though I understand it must have been awkward. And I hope you are ok and everything turned out to be well.

]]> By: Cyn http://www.msadventuresinitaly.com/blog/2007/01/31/keeping-your-legs-crossed-in-an-italian-hospital/comment-page-1/#comment-2047 Cyn Fri, 02 Feb 2007 11:48:20 +0000 http://blog.sararosso.com/index.php/2007/01/31/keeping-your-legs-crossed-in-an-italian-hospital/#comment-2047 I have a similar story. I think we could write about these sorts of things. The worst part for me was that Danilo had to go with me because I was afraid that my Italian wasn't good enough and I wanted to understand EVERYTHING! Needless to say, Danilo knows me better than he ever has before! At least there was curtain for me hide behind, not that I had any dignity left! Cyn I have a similar story. I think we could write about these sorts of things. The worst part for me was that Danilo had to go with me because I was afraid that my Italian wasn’t good enough and I wanted to understand EVERYTHING!

Needless to say, Danilo knows me better than he ever has before! At least there was curtain for me hide behind, not that I had any dignity left!

Cyn

]]> By: Shelley - At Home in Rome http://www.msadventuresinitaly.com/blog/2007/01/31/keeping-your-legs-crossed-in-an-italian-hospital/comment-page-1/#comment-2017 Shelley - At Home in Rome Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:05:40 +0000 http://blog.sararosso.com/index.php/2007/01/31/keeping-your-legs-crossed-in-an-italian-hospital/#comment-2017 Sara…the more I get to know you the more I realize we have in common. That blushing thing… the first time I went to an ob/gyn here it was my fianceč’s aunt, and it was a public clinic and I was shocked by the lack of bedside manner (and to think that this was “family” so perhaps it’s even worse when you aren’t), it was very much what everyone has been saying: strip nekkid, no sheet to cover you, etc. I was taken really off guard and spoke hardly any Italian so it was an entirely mortifying experience.

I have THE best, I mean THE BEST, gyno in the world now, I will sing her praises to anyone who is looking for a gyno here in Rome: Dr. Trouvé at the Aventino Medical Group. Cannot speak highly enough of her. She speaks English, Italian and French.

Thanks for sharing this experience so we can have a laugh and be more informed!

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