The man had dreadlocks longer than Cher's hair and the woman was preregistering for a c-section some time this week. She had her two daughters with her. We were able to hear quite a bit of the conversation, so I know the man's name was Kenny. They were reading the options for the living will, and Kenny requested that everything be left to Shacondra's boyfriend Kenny (that's when we learned the names) and then the two daughters present. Since they had different Daddy's, Kenny did not feel that they required any of Shacondra's possessions, except that each Daddy could have their child back. I hope someone explained what a "living will" was to them!!
Once they thought they cleared that all up, they proceeded to entertain the two little girls (guessing 4-5). They opened a can of Pringles (which was especially annoying to me since I was not allowed to eat since midnight and it was now almost 1pm) and fed them only if they performed tricks. The required trick was to act like a monkey. The better the monkey (with sound effects and all) the more Pringles were rewarded.
Whitney and I couldn't even look at each other. We were texting each other our comments, I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own two eyes. But it only gets better.
Kenny and Shacondra were discussing that if the baby was breathing right now in water (embryonic sac) then if the baby stayed under water his entire life would he be like a fish. Shacondra tried to explain to him that since the baby was breathing blood, that the baby would have to stay in water that had blood in it in order to breath and live. The conversation evolved into whether a fresh water fish would be able to survive in a salt water environment. They concluded that without a doubt, that all fish could adapt and live in any environment.
Thank goodness, at this point, they were called to register and left the waiting area. We were called shortly there after and went to my favorite preregister spot, but this time it was room #5 AND they remembered me. Lost 8 lbs since I was there last yay!! I ran upstairs and gave blood and then returned to room #5 to finish all the paper work. It's interesting, same paper work as two weeks ago, nothing changed except my weight and that I had taken a z pack. But that didn't matter, had to fill it all out again.
From there we were escorted to our other favorite pre-op waiting area. There we waited another hour before they took me in, gave me that fabulous robe and my favorite socks and hooked me up to all the wires. Then after another hour, the surgeon came by and initialed me and the fun juice started. Although I only got the fun juice about 10 minutes before surgery. Felt a little ripped off.
A positive, the needle didn't hurt as bad this time on the top of my hand because I made sure they knew it hurt last time. I do have a huge bruise on my under wrist because they were going to do it there, gave me lidocane and all of my veins constricted. They had to pull out and do it on the top, but she got a good vein before doing it and it was much better.
So, off we went to the operating room. I was awake while they moved me to a different bed and wrapped me in a warmer (room temp was 64.5*F) and gave me some more wires THEN I went off to lalaland. When I woke up, it wasn't as pleasant as last time, I was nauseous and woke up shivering, but they were quick to get me better. They gave me some pain medication (diloted) and I think I already said I had a turkey sandwich, applesauce, and graham crackers, vicodin and off we came home.
Today I am fine, very constipated and waiting for the epsom salts (best thing in the world) to kick in and I'm good to go. A little wobbly and my reading is interesting, jumps all over the page. Last night I couldn't sleep worth a flip, but I am hoping tonight I sleep like a baby!! Tomorrow will be my first day to drive in over two weeks, I am very excited about that, staying off the vicodin so I can drive!
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