Virginia and I had a marathon day at the hospital today all about weight loss surgery. Virginia had a very friendly conversation with a gigantic elderly woman with a blue bouffont hairdo who was waiting in the doctor's office for two hours previous to us. Waiting around can bring out a person's competetive streak as we found out when it was time for a blood draw.
We were in a race down the hall to the elevator to head for the phlebotomy department. We didn't realize it was a race until we got to the elevator door. The woman was calling out for us to hold the elevator door. When we all piled into the elevator, the race was on. The woman positioned herself right next to the door which was not hard to do since she was the last one on board. She was all red in the face and huffing and puffing from her condor like flight down the hall.
As soon as the elevator door opened three floors down, "Two Ton Tammy" ran out of the elevator to beat it down the hall and around the corner for phlebotomy before any of the rest of us stepped out of the elevator. Her plan was foiled, however, as she raced down the hall and right past the phlebotomy room. As it turned out, she was the last person to make it in for her blood draw. It was not her day. The poor thing had to wait around into the evening for someone to come pick her up. When we left the hospital, she was just coming out of the coffee shop and told us of her predicament.
Perhaps there is poetic justice in this world.
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This is just God's way of saying, "Slow down people."
I would like to comment for Russ's sister Liz...who said "This is the funnies post yet!" His Mom is not on the WWW but was doubled up with laughter when we read it to her. By the way, for everybody against this surgery, try taking off 80 pounds to avoid heart disease, joint replacement and cancer among other morbidly obese risk factors. Hugh? But this isn't my blog so I will stop.
Virginia
By the way, the hospital I am going to is the most experienced. They have had 2,000 procedures and not ONE fatality. You keep working at it after your honeymoon year is up but they were the only hospital that was honest about this! Okay. Now I will let Russ post. I am hoping he will say something about his movie cinema job at Liz's request.
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