about monday...

...which was a day devoted to sitting and waiting. With a lot of time spent observing the cohorts looking at their cell phones, browsing through Facebook or checking emails. Looking like the duck, in the joke who is looking so calm and unruffled on the surface, while paddling like crazy where no one can see.

TP was scheduled to get the electronic device in his chest replaced. The heart doc. he has been seeing for several years, after the first one died of a heart attack :( said the battery was getting low enough that it should be changed. I have always wondered out loud why they cannot recharge externally.  I guess the idea of replacing is a great way to have to opportunity to sell and install more?

It was a mostly uneventful event for the people who were sitting around waiting all day long. He was appointed to arrive at 9:00, which told me that it would be an all day project. If he had been scheduled to show up before first light, we'd have been the first in line for the procedure. To be home by lunchtime, rather than cooling our heels as the que got behinder and behinder as the day progressed, like the landing pattern circling over Hartsfield International Airport.

He is Mr. OnTime, so if the appt. is for nine, he will be there at 8:15. Which does not get you any points in the medical community. Better have something good to read when you walk in the door.

I had a National Geographic, with a cover story about medical weed, that was very interesting. I am the one who wrote the essay in high school. Promoting, supporting pot, and received lots of suspicious questions and doubting looks from principal and teachers in the small rural community where we lived.

He was released around five o'clock, sent home with instructions that he was not allowed to drive, or take a shower for a week. The way the discharging nurse described it was to say that he has 'bathroom privileges. Which she explained to mean he should not be doing anything that causes more exertion than walking the distance from the recliner to the toilet and back. We'll see how that works out...