Like that's anything new.

A few things I noticed this time:

1) There is a well-marked ATM in the lobby of the UW Medical Center. I find this both refreshingly honest as well as disturbing.

B) They charge me to park there. And the rates are kind of high ($6 for an hour and a half). It doesn't matter if I'm a patient or not. they will be making bank off of me.

Also) There was an old person car parked in the disabled drop-off area. The license plate said MAUDDIB. Was this a science fiction fan who is a poor speller? A victim of a clueless DMV? Or was it just some lady name Maud who has dibs?

Lastly) Over the past 5 years or so, I've noticed that doctors and other medical professionals have become more familiar with, and aware of, Alport's Syndrome, which is my particular genetic malfunction. It used to be that I had to explain the whole thing to everybody. More recently, people walk into the room and ask if I have Alport's, or know what it is when they see it in my chart. In this case, the otaryntologist looked at my hearing graph and my age and guessed it from there. That's cool.