I observed many different types of support yesterday, including:

• A primary care doctor, helping a distressed and emotionally overwhelmed patient decide whether to accept available support at a psychiatric facility.
• A room-full of doctors, nurses, social workers, and other health providers, discussing a moving poem about a patient’s hospital experience.
• A doctor accompanying an elderly man, as they circled by me several times, gathering information about his reactions to walking.
• That same doctor informing me that my foot pain was tendon-related, and that it would heal in a week, with Aleve, ice, and this other support I remember witnessing in my childhood:

(image found here)

When I left the doctor, I felt supported and hopeful enough to do some walking, and I observed …

team support,

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… different types of walking support,

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… things supported in the air,

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a kind of vehicular support I’ve been noticing…