”Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.” – Yoko Ono
My mom and I headed to Ohio State for my pre-op appointment. I’m not sure why I had it in my head I was meeting with an anesthesiologist and also just getting blood work. Then I was also scheduled for a CT scan at the Dublin site. I guess I was thinking I was younger for a minute. So let me set the scene for the first of several funnies of the day. My appointment was arrive at 12:15pm for 12:30pm for the pre-op. Then arrive at 3:30pm for 4:00pm in Dublin which is 25 minutes from the first appointment. So on the drive up my mom asks me what are we going to do in between the appointments? I answer with we will just have to play it by ear as I am not sure at all how long the first appointment will last. So we arrive at the building we needed to be at for this first part. I am getting good at finding the buildings, but not so good with where to park for each one. lol. My mom is a trooper though as she has a rollater walker and she goes to town pushing that. So we arrive with a few extra minutes which is always good as we always have to have a pit stop before the appointment. So we find the little girls room and stop there first. First funny of the day: I stand there as I thought the two regular stalls were full as they seemed locked. After at least ten minutes and a worker comes in I say I think those are locked, but no one is in them. She says have you tried to push the doors. Here all this time I thought you pulled the doors, but no you push them. Oh my. I was glad that it was only us three in there as we all chuckled at me for a few minutes. If you know me you know sometimes I am special that way. Next we head towards where we need to check in for my appointment. We get to that end of the building and there are automatic glass doors to go through before we get to the check in desk. Second funny of the day: I almost ran into those glass doors with my head as I thought they were going to open wider. So I proceed to give the lady my name and answer her questions and why I thought it important to tell her and I almost ran into your door with my head. Her response to that was that’s ok. Oh my. I go back to sit by my mom as she’s waiting and she said yes I heard her. lol. Well it’s my turn so I go to the back and I wait and wait. Did I say I waited. The MA had been in and asked a lot of questions and said a physician would be in soon. After I saw the doc she had the MA come back in to do an EKG. Third funny of the day: During the EKG she proceeds to say it says you have a tremor on the EKG machine can you sit on your hands? I’m thinking duh that is why I am here. Ha ha. I finally am heading back out to the waiting room and tell my mom you aren’t going to believe this, but I haven’t even had my blood drawn. Now to give you an idea about time is they took me back about 12:30pm and it was almost 2:30 by the time I got back out to my mom. She said I was about to go up to the counter and say what are you doing with my daughter back there. I laughed at her, but was a little mad, but was thinking what good is that going to do me. So we head to the lab area which is on our way out. They get me back and back out in like 15-20 minutes. Now back in the car on way to Dublin for the CT scan. Remember we were wanting to know what we were going to do in between the appointments. I guess we figured it out. So we arrive at the building in Dublin at 3:20 and were already headed home by 3:40pm. That was the quickest appointment of the day. Stayed tuned as next week it’s the surgeries posts.
RECIPES WITH GRANDMA JUDY
CHICKEN CASSEROLE
4-5 Chicken breasts
3 Cans of cream of chicken soup (or 1 family size)
8 oz sour cream
1/4 c chicken broth
3 cylinders of ritz crackers
1 1/2 sticks margarine
Boil chicken and save broth. Remove bone from chicken. Cut chicken into bite size pieces and place in bottom of 9×13 baking dish. Mix soup, sour cream, and chicken broth and heat until blended. Pour over chicken. Cover with crushed ritz crackers well coated in melted margarine. Bake at 350 for 30-35 minutes.