Bless Your Heart

Read yesterday’s post so today’s will make sense.

I totally forgot about Saturday night! Jon’s parents came to visit and brought food from Shomars! Woohoo! I had a chicken pita and 4 fries and was just stuffed. Plus root beer! It was great! Then we watched fireworks from my room’s window. We think one of the malls was setting them off for the 4th.

We woke up Sunday morning at the crack. Had breakfast which was supposed to be a breakfast burrito but was really 2 egg disks with ketchup and olives. Talked to the meal selections woman again at 7am and picked out my lunch then had a hard time convincing her we wouldn’t be there for dinner. The white haired doctor came back and checked me out and told me I could go home that day. My nurse came in with my meds and told me when we were ready to go just hit the nurse button and they’d come with a wheel chair. Sounds good. I finally got a toot out which pleased the nurses so they said I could go after lunch. So we packed up, taking our time then we hit the nurse button. They told me I couldn’t go! That I had to wait an hour since I’d taken a pain pill. So we hung out for another hour then hit the button again. And waited and waited and waited. No one was coming for us. So we just grabbed our stuff and went out in the hall. I was slow moving down the hall. A nurse saw us.

Are you leaving?
Yes.
Wanna wheelchair?
That’d be nice, thank you.
This is the only one we have on this floor (brings out a rickety wheelchair).

So Jon went on down to get the car and meet us out front. That wheelchair would barely move and my nurse weighed maybe 100 lbs. I felt bad for her, but she somehow got me downstairs. We were waiting out front when this guy came by and walked so close to the nurse we could smell him. How’re you doin young lady? Her “Fine.” was tight lipped. Then he just kept walking. Like she wasn’t standing there with a patient in a wheelchair. What did he think? That she’d just run after him? Wait! Take me with you!

We came home and Jon’s parents had dinner waiting for us. It was so nice. The best part was they also cleaned up after dinner, so all we had to do was climb the stairs and go to bed. Nothing like good food and your own bed!