February 21 - At Sea
Today was busy with all the usual - coffee, breakfast, lectures, reading, trivia (came in 3rd with 10/15), etc. I haven't heard back from the insurance company about a dermatologist appointment in Sydney, so I just called a doctor found online. Besides other logistical problems like it being a weekend, turns out that typically the first appointment would only be for a consultation and, if a biopsy is warranted, that would be a later appt. That obviously doesn't work, so we decided to look ahead. With our new changed schedule, we have 2 days in Adelaide so I called around to doctors there and got an appointment. For the basic info on the phone she asked me what my background was. I'm thinking "I'm retired but used to work in HR" but figured that wasn't relevant so I said "I'm sorry, I'm American and I'm not sure what you mean by my background". She says, "You're American and your family is all American?" Ahh, of...