The Buckets by Greg Cravens for April 16, 2015

Are wheelies included with the ride?

They still do that? I’ve only stayed at a hospital once, and I hobbled out on crutches the second I heard I could go. Apparently I left a little too quickly because the nurse flagged me down for some pain med scripts while I was waiting in the pharmacy for others to be filled, so maybe a ride would have been included had I waited around. You can’t sleep in a hospital ironically, with the beeping IV machine, nurses coming in every hour to check your vitals, other patients screaming in pain, interns running down the halls, etc., so I wanted to be home as soon as possible.

Yep. CYA!

A little humor makes everything better!

Ok then!

Now there’s a novel command to begin a race: “Gentlemen, grab your incisions!”

On your marks… Get set… Go!

xxx

I’ve been discharged from hospitals several times for anything from out-patient day surgery to full abdominal organ removals. I have been required to ride the chair out for every single one except the full abdominal where they actually wanted me to walk out, accompanied by two nurses, to ensure I was functional enough to recuperate at home. Well, actually a hotel as the hospital was 600 miles from home and it would be another week before I was healed enough to make the travel home.

Greg … why does that orderly look a lot like me? :P..Just kidding. ..or am I?