Wow, she's tall.

Very often my patients ask how tall I am.  It's something I'm becoming very used to.  Now I don't help myself much because I wear shoes that add an extra two inches, but it's because they are good shoes.
I can't even tell you how many patients I've had that see me come into their room, lean over them to listen to their heart with my handy-dandy stethoscope, and while I'm listening they say (which comes in very loudly through the stethoscope), "How tall are you?"  I respond by saying, "5"10."
That's when the male patients say, "Did you play sports?" and the female patients say, "Wow, I bet you find it hard to find jeans."  And to both of these questions I say, "yes, and yes."
Usually when I go into a patients room to do something with them, or help them up or something, I always raise the bed up, so as to save my back.  A few times I've taken someone in to help me boost a patient up in bed.  This consists of one person on each side of the patient and on the count of three we take a draw-sheet from under patient and boost them up closer to the head of the bed.  When I go in I raise the bed up, and twice I've forgotten and the helper I brought in with me has to say, "Kelsy, umm, that's a little too high for me.  I can't reach."  Oops, my bad.
When I was younger I was very shy about my height.  I always wore flat shoes and didn't always stand straight.  Now I'm totally over that, hence wearing the two-inch heal shoes, fondly referred to as my Danskos.
I couple months ago I went in to assess a patient at the beginning of my shift.  He had several family members in the room, so we made small chat while I worked, then I stepped out of the room to fiddle with my computer.  As I was standing outside his room I heard him say, "Now how tall do you guys think she is?"  I had to quickly push my computer away so I could have a good laugh at this.
Yes, people, I'm tall and proud of it.  I usually have to buy extra long jeans, and as you can see on the picture above, sometimes I have to duck my head when I go through that doorway.  But it's how God made me and at least for today, I'll embrace it.  And I'll keep wearing those tall shoes.  When I don't wear them I feel short.