We had another appointment at the Hospital for Herself this morning. It was a very important one. It was basically the pre op consultation for her gall bladder removal. It wasn't with our usual White Rabbit, ooohhh my goodness no.. This was with a very genial little Leprechaun of a chap, complete with Irish accent, yes indeed begorrah & bejabers. We both like him, because he is very understanding & compassionate. He has scheduled Herself in for surgery on the 11th of August, before if he gets any cancellations. We are both very relieved to have an end in sight for this whole nightmare. The only disappointment is that the 11th. is when we have our tickets booked for Cirque du Soleil. Its somewhat of a blow, but we both agree that having Herself relatively pain free is far more important than any other considerations. Anyway, our next door neighbor has said that she will take them, so its not a total loss. Funny, the thought crossed my mind that I was tempting fate a bit when I booked them. To complete our surreal experience, we have an appointment with the White Rabbit the day before Herself is booked for surgery. Frankly, I don't know if I should bring the Lucky Rabbit's foot or crawl round in the swamp that laughingly passes as a back yard at the moment & try to find a 4 leaf clover. Maybe I should just hedge my bets & look for a 4 toed rabbits foot. One can never be too prepared you know.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
T'Be Sure T'Be Sure...
We had another appointment at the Hospital for Herself this morning. It was a very important one. It was basically the pre op consultation for her gall bladder removal. It wasn't with our usual White Rabbit, ooohhh my goodness no.. This was with a very genial little Leprechaun of a chap, complete with Irish accent, yes indeed begorrah & bejabers. We both like him, because he is very understanding & compassionate. He has scheduled Herself in for surgery on the 11th of August, before if he gets any cancellations. We are both very relieved to have an end in sight for this whole nightmare. The only disappointment is that the 11th. is when we have our tickets booked for Cirque du Soleil. Its somewhat of a blow, but we both agree that having Herself relatively pain free is far more important than any other considerations. Anyway, our next door neighbor has said that she will take them, so its not a total loss. Funny, the thought crossed my mind that I was tempting fate a bit when I booked them. To complete our surreal experience, we have an appointment with the White Rabbit the day before Herself is booked for surgery. Frankly, I don't know if I should bring the Lucky Rabbit's foot or crawl round in the swamp that laughingly passes as a back yard at the moment & try to find a 4 leaf clover. Maybe I should just hedge my bets & look for a 4 toed rabbits foot. One can never be too prepared you know.
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You know, you doomed yourself by buying those tickets and then saying you hoped they wouldn't schedule surgery for the 11th. The scheduling gods are mischievous little buggers, and they totally messed with your plans.
Of course, if the surgery had been scheduled for LATER than the 11th, who knows whether Herself would've enjoyed the show, what with being in so much pain?
Well, maybe the good doctor can circumvent the scheduling gods and get her in for her surgery sometime between now and August 5th. That way, you might even be able to use those tickets. If not, then as you said, at least Herself will be free from pain, thank God.
Quite frankly, I think we was doomed from the start. Even if i had booked the tickets for the 29th Feb 3 years hence, a comet would likely strike the earth 2 days before. Yesterday, the speech language therapist rang & assured me that we "Seemed to have everything under control" I told her, "Yeah I guess so if you consider a runaway down hill train wreck under control" She laughed dammit ....
Good one, Flattie.
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