A Few Funnies

Over the course of these past 2 weeks, my Mom, Nick and I have spent quite a bit of time together. Although some of this time is spent in gut-wrenching anticipation of what the next doctor is going to say… some moments have been pretty darn funny. I thought I would share a couple of them for your blogging pleasure.

One funny moment that still makes me smile as I am thinking about it happened last week. My mom, Nick and I were in a very crowded, small, waiting room, waiting for one of my OB appointments. This is the type of waiting room where you are very cramped, and the chairs are arranged in such a fashion that you are forced to sit face-to-face with whoever happens to sit in front of you. I’m sure you know what I mean. You are basically forced to just sit there and awkwardly avoid direct eye-contact, and you try to act like you can’t hear everybody else’s conversations when you are obviously eavesdropping. We had been waiting for a good 30 minutes when my mom pops up out of her chair and says, “oh, let me ask if they got your lab work back from last week so we can talk it over with the doctor!” I replied that it was a good idea. Off she went to the receptionist window, about 5 feet away, and asks, (not whispering) “Do you have the lab work back for the Infectious Diseases for my daughter?” It was as if everyone in the room simultaneously held their breath. I tried to correct her and say loudly “It wasn’t for Infectious Diseases mom, it was just for Infections.” A couple of women sadly smiled at me, probably secretly wishing they had some kind of antibacterial hand sanitizer in their purse. I felt like crawling into the crack of my very uncomfortable chair!

The second funny was today. My mom took me to Winnie Palmer, a place I am getting to know quite well, to get my second dose of iron therapy. While getting hooked to the IV, the nurse was making chit-chat and asked if I knew what I was having and had I picked out a name. I of course told her, and she went on to remark on how pretty the name Anna Grace was. She preceded to tell us about some crazy names that she has heard in her line of work. Some of them were pretty funny, but the best one was a young woman having twins and she had chosen to name her baby girls, (I will spell it phonetically so there won’t be any confusion) Gin-or-ree-a and Si-fill-us. My mom and I laughed so hard we almost peed our pants!

Still laughing,
Melanie & Nick