MY Pre-Op & WOW moment Yesterday

Mar 19, 2010

OK, so enroute to the hospital for pre-op I got a little nervousand forgot where to go when I got there.  So I called the office and they talked me through...lol! SO I park and walk in to outpatient registration, they direct me to the third floor.  All I can say was the hospital was a maze good thing for signs. After arriving to third floor I proceed down hallway to Pre-Surgical Testing.  The young lady met me and said that Tommie will be with me in a minute. So while waiting, here comes a middle age, 5'1 lady who greets me with a smile (ok so where is Tommie) and say Hello Cherise I will be right with you. Ok so her name is Tommie...cute lil lady with a country accent.   MY turn and we proceed to exam room, she weighs me I weigh in at 260lbs (this will be my weight that I will start with). She takes my blood pressure, temp, and she does my EKG.  While waiting on the Anestesiologist Dr. Clark, she takes calls her sidekick down. She does history, and Tommie stops and looks at me and states...my love you are  so healthy compared to others and you are gonna do awesome because you do not look like you are over 200lbs and don't have much to lose....AAAAAAWWWW!  As she takes my blood, she said that she is batting for 1000 because she got me on the first poke and her other patient was over 600lbs and she got his.  She says usually when they are that large it's harder to find a vein.  Well we talked about dogs, bras and kids. She is so funny with the bras as she was doing my EKG she looked at my bra and was like that is soooo beautiful a hot pink bra and it comical after that.

As the Nurse is doing my physical she looks at my EKG and says that is the first normal EKG I have seen in years.  Ok, that is a great thing for me. The handsome Dr. Clark comes in, the nurse moves over for him to do his thing. He asks me a couple of questions and says I will see you in surgery.  But before you go I have a some questions...yes, I had to know about spinals I am totally afraid of them because I have spinal headaches and have had to have blood patches.  He states to me yes, I can see why you're scared.  He promised everything will be alright.  Ok, Dr. Clark I am holding you to this.  So I got the seal of approval and they sent me for xray of chest and I am on my way.

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