I had a patient the other day..........
She was a little bitty thing about 5 feet in all. She was as heavy as she was short! Well she started to tell me all about her son. Apparently he is the illegitimate son of JFK! Now this would not be the first time I heard something crazy from one of my patients. I have to take such statements with a grain of salt. I definitely started doubting her mental capacities as I nodded nicely as she spoke. When I left the room, the secretary proceeded to tell me that her son is JFK's love child! She adopted him from a woman who became pregnant from the former president here in MD. She has legal papers about the whole thing! Now I'm shocked. Then another person tells me they saw her picture and her son's in the national enquirer at the checkout stand the other day! Sure enough, the son comes in about 2 hours later with his sister. He had on a pair of puffy red and purple pants to go with his pointy peter pan shoes; I kid you not! I'm thinkin' is this guy for real!! Apparently so. He also has a cape to go with his ensemble. Hanging over his arm is a purple sequined shirt that he did not wear but was just carrying with him; I guess it was an accessory. As his sister proceeded to inform me of how there is a policeman stalking her around town, he is making inappropriate comments to the wall in hopes that I can hear him but not in a way that says he is actually talking to me! I'm thinkin' what is going on here! I'm screaming on the inside because she is talking at such a rapid pace that I am unable to get a word in edgewise. I am unable to leave the room because her stalking story is continuing on ad-infinitum. I am stepping closer and closer to the door, trying to give a hint that I may have some work to do, or hoping the secretary calls my name to save me from this sideshow! Finally....she takes a breath. "I gotta go do some work", I say and dart towards the door. There I got out I'm saying to myself. The secretary looks at me and laughs because she knows I was just caught in the room with no way out; she knows what I just went through because it probably happened to her before. This sweet little lady did the right thing years ago to take in this baby and give him a life, but it is clear to me why it is not public knowledge that he is a Kennedy descendant. I hope he is receiving some type of psychiatric treatment because he is clearly in his own world. He thinks people are out to kill him. As they left I felt badly that I wanted to avoid them. I guess that's a human reaction. Anyways, just wanted to type up this story before I forgot about it because it was extremely weird. It was like I entered the twilight zone. For all we know, he could be the only sane Kennedy left!