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:
good project for your children to get involved in! have them get the SH to bring you veggie food and make it their job!
My SIL had the opposite problem when she gave birth in our local Seventh Day Adventist Hospital - getting meat was the difficult part!
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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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...
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