Monday, February 08, 2010

the preliminaries

I had an appointment at the hospital today to prepare for my surgery. I filled out a few clipboards worth of forms, had a lot of blood taken (Lola was indignant when she heard that they didn't give me a cookie after taking the blood. "Evil!" she said firmly), met with an anesthesiologist who measured my neck's circumference and took a good long look down my throat, and was shown where to check in on Thursday.

Everything seemed well-organized, with the only down point being when I asked about getting vegetarian food in the hospital. The person I was meeting with sighed. Fixing her gaze upon me with peculiar intensity, she said, "You can refuse the food. Remember that: you can refuse the food." No one needs to remind moi, a picky eater and vegetarian to boot, that I can refuse food. What I wanted to hear was that there would be something I might not need to refuse. This will be the third hospital in this town that I will have stayed in, and I haven't yet been served a vegetarian meal. The hospital where I had two surgeries in 2000 added insult to injury by sending me a flier in the mail a few months after my stay -- during which they didn't bring me a single vegetarian food --- about how I could improve my health and live longer by adopting a vegetarian lifestyle.

I picked up a couple of take-out menus from neighboring restaurants on my way back to my car. I don't think I'll be very hungry in the hospital (the last time I was hospitalized, I just went without eating for two days; if food came when the Sober Husband was visiting, he ate it), but if I do get hungry, I think "The Falafel King" is my best best.

5 comments:

hughman said...

good project for your children to get involved in! have them get the SH to bring you veggie food and make it their job!

K said...

My SIL had the opposite problem when she gave birth in our local Seventh Day Adventist Hospital - getting meat was the difficult part!

NonymousGoatsePants said...

Measured your neck? Looked down your throat?

Perhaps you should write a note on your forehead with a Sharpie -- "Do not cut off head. I still use this! All cutting down here!!!"

Then draw an arrow pointing south.

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PHX Mama said...

I'm thinking that you are probably having surgery today or tomorrow (if you haven't gone in already)...just letting you know I am thinking good thoughts for you! Feel better soon...