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Ditzy Do and her daughter Dinky were shown into one of the examination rooms by a nurse at the Canterlot Teaching Hospital. The grey pegasus sat up on the examination bed after being led in and her daughter sat down on one of the chairs against the wall.
“A doctor should be with you in a few minutes.” The unicorn nurse stated who had the generic Red Cross cutie mark for most nurses.
“Thank you, nurse.” Ditzy replied and nodded her head in the general direction of where she stood since her eye condition made it hard to focus on the nurse. The other mare nodded her head and left.
“Dinky, don’t play with those.” Ditzy reprimanded her daughter in a soft but firm voice. The little grey unicorn filly had been playing with the wooden sticks in a jar sitting on the counter near the sink.
“Sorry Mom.” Dinky replied and sat down.
A few minutes passed before the door opened again. A silver unicorn with a dark brown mane that had begun to turn grey walked in. Derpy could see that his front right leg had a cane attached to it with two braces holding the staff against his leg causing him to limp due to his inability to bend the appendage. Along with the usual clop of hooves hitting the tile floor the cane added a recognizable click noise while he walked. His cutie mark was a red puzzle piece with a white pill capsule in the center of it.
“I am Doctor House, and I have just spent my whole morning recovering from a hangover from drinking too much and taking drugs.” He paused for a moment to look over at Dinky. “Don’t mix painkillers and alcohol, kid.” He added.
“Um?” Was all Ditzy had to say, unsure how to reply to such an awkward statement.
“Oh, I’m sorry let me explain. This is the part after I tell you my problem you then explain whatever problem you have that requires you to waste my time.” The doctor stated with a condescending tone of voice.
“Oh, well my boss at the post office wanted me to come in to the hospital because of my eye condition. I accidentally flew into a mailbox and they want me to look into getting treatment.” Derpy explained her condition. It was an embarrassing topic for the pegasus. Because of her cross eyed appearance many assumed her to be mentally challenged earning her nicknames like ‘Derpy’.
“How long have you had this condition?” The doctor inquired looking at her with his face a hoof’s distance from her nose. It took Ditzy's bad depth perception a second to realize he was so close and pulled her head back uncomfortably.
“Well, ever since I was about 5 years old.” She replied.
“And it took you this long to finally look into treatment?” He asked as he levitated a quill and began writing down a prescription. “It says here on your records that other doctors had already prescribed medication for this.”
“Well I don’t really want to take medicine. My mother and father always told me they do more harm than good.”
“Well you don’t need to take the medicine if you’re not comfortable with it.” Dr. House stated calmly accepting her refusal.
“Really?” Ditzy said with a small smile on her face.
“Yes. You can avoid taking the medicine. Then one day when your daughter comes home from school, she’ll learn that while her mother was flying her rounds she flew into a building and broke her neck because her depth perception is out of whack from her crossed eyes. Then she can grow up the rest of her life without her mother and have a whole array of emotional and abandonment issues because her mother was too stupid to take medication.” The doctor informed her.
Ditzy gasped hearing what he said and saw Dinky look up with wide eyes. “My mommy’s gonna die?”
“No, of course not dear.” Ditzy turned her face and tried to give the meanest look she could at the doctor. “Why would you say such a thing in front of her?” She demanded.
“Because if you keep pretending like you can do a job that requires flying between buildings to deliver mail while having trouble with your eye sight, you are eventually going to have an accident.” He informed her sternly and levitated the slip of paper with the prescription she needed. "It's your choice, be stupid or not."
Ditzy bowed her head and took the slip of paper. “Thank you, doctor.” She said in a small voice knowing he was right and her pride bruised from the tongue lashing he gave her. The doctor mumbled something before undoing a bottle and taking two pills from it with his telekinesis then turned and left.
Dr. Gregory House hobbled out of the room that had the grey pegasus and her daughter and over to the receptionist. “If anyone needs me I’ll be looking over important medical files in my office.” He stated to the nurse on duty dropping the Ditzy Do file on the desk before making his way to the lounge to take a nap and sleep off the rest of his headache.
Twilight was walking through the town square with her assistant Spike riding on her back. The two were watching along with some curious bystanders as Rainbow Dash pulled off some gravity defying feats in the air over their heads.
Twilight raised her hoof and rubbed the side of her head as she suddenly felt dizzy. “You okay Twilight?” Spike inquired noticing his friend rubbing her temple.
“Yeah, just a got a little light headed from following Dash’s performance.” She replied.
“Yeah how about it, she sure has some awesome moves.” The purple dragon agreed as he looked back up at the rainbow colored blur spinning through the air.
The cyan pegasus finished off by spiraling towards the ground at breakneck speeds. She lifted her wings and stopped her frightful decent and hovered only inches off the ground before lightly touching down.
“Wow Rainbow Dash that was awesome!” Spike yelled out and the pegasus struck a heroic pose at the compliment.
“Awesome is what I do best.” She replied swishing back her rainbow colored mane with one hoof. “Awe now Twilight there is no need to bow even if you are standing before the most awesome flier to have ever lived.” The cyan pegasus said noticing Twilight bend her front legs resting on her joints with her head down.
“Twilight?” Spike inquired noticing something was wrong right away and Rainbow Dash trotted up with a worried look on her face as the baby dragon jumped off her back and walked over to where her head was resting on her front legs.
“Twilight, are you okay?” The cyan pegasus inquired her early bravado replaced by a look of fear upon seeing that her friend was in pain.
“No.” Twilight gasped before falling onto her side.
The largest problem I have with writing more of this story is that I know nothing of medicine or being a doctor. The most I know is from a biology 101 class I took in college (and slept through most of it). So I might just come up with some Equestrian pseudo biology. I would hope this does not affect anyone's enjoyment of the story. Since I don't usually know wtf they are talking about on the show anyway and still love it. Any critique is helpful to help me improve the next chapter.