Today was my last scheduled test.  I had a CT scan at the Grey Nuns Hospital.  

 A little side note: I am a hairdresser. I have been for almost 40 years. But the last 15 I have not worked in a salon.  But I remember doing perms, and colours, and hair cuts. Lots and lots of them. Anyone remember the spiral perms ?  They took hours to do. I remember doing kids that got really restless sitting so long, the stinky smell, even many adults got restless sitting for about 2 hours while someone (me) worked magic on your head. Then colour trying not to get it on the skin around the ears or anywhere else for that matter because it stained the skin so bad. You could have a ring around your head for days. Lol lol Then there was the haircuts and you would be itchy all day until you finally had a shower and washed off all the little hairs. Leaning back into the shampoo sink….never easy on the neck.  But all for the price of beauty. 

 I too got perms, and  colours, and hated the sitting, the smell, the itchy little hairs. I always tried to make my customers comfortable. Even when it was not a comfortable procedure.( I hope I don’t hear anything bad come back from this post )  but in the end the final reveal was all worth it. ( well usually). (9 times out of 10) 🙃

Today I wanted to tell my nurses to sit in my chair. It is a very stressful time for the person getting these procedures. They all knew upfront I had cancer every nurse and every doctor asked me about it. What my course of action was ? When I was starting ?  I told them all the same. This is the means to the end. I HOPE  the nurse told me this was a three hour procedure. 3 hours….3 hours 

I felt they were rushing through, trying to get me and everyone else in and out fast. (But we are not barn yard animals ). The nurse doing the intravenous said change here then go there then wait here then drink lots. And somewhere in there I had to pee,because I had to start drinking lots of water at 4 am. But all of a sudden they needed me to sit and wait. Mother Nature calls when she calls I needed a bathroom. Off to find a bathroom as I rocked the beautiful blue hospital lingerie. One bathroom at the opposite end of the unit I was on. Of course it was.  Finally I get back. I get the intravenous and then the nurse says just sit in the waiting room for about ( there is the problem, ABOUT Means different things to different people) one hour.   The alarm goes off on the intravenous 3 times while I wait 10 minutes beeping for a nurse to come and turn me off. Then one hour later she comes to get me, Jamie and I near fell of the chairs, because he is sleeping. Jamie now heads to the car for a nap he has been sleeping for 20 minutes in the waiting room.  Waiting. Lol.  All goes well with the CT I will say the technicians in there were great. They explained everything to me and were so nice asking questions and then telling me they were sorry I had cancer.        ( not as sorry as I am) but they were very good. Well!  that went good.  Now to go home.   But oh NO. Back to the grouchy nurse. She tells me I have to sit for about ( ABOUT ) 2 hours. With the intravenous to flush my Kidney out. The alarm goes off again while I am sitting with her. She fixes it 

She says we can go eat in the cafeteria   I phone Jamie who doesn’t answer because he is sleeping in the car. Tired from the 5 am wake up.  I wait a few minutes then text. Still no answer. Ok one more call then I am eating without him. ( why when they tell u no food after midnight you are famished the next morning and all I can think of is getting some  food ). One more call and Jamie says hellloooo. Sleeping beauty you want to have breakfast with me.  In he comes and we have hospital food. Lol   Back to the waiting room, Jamie suddenly has some important phone calls to make and goes back to the car. ( for another nap).  Then the alarm goes off again and again and again. Stupid thing. So frustrating 😡

I walk around a bit, go to the gift store, and sit a little then pee and sit and pee and sit. Finally 2 hours no nurse.  2 1/2 hours no nurse. I finally ask. I said they told me about 2 hours then I would be done.  The reception nurse  ( I don’t know what she was they all wear nurses clothes ) says. Well your alarm went off so much you need to sit longer. Not my fault it took the nurses 10 minutes every time to get to me.  So more sitting and more waiting and more peeing.  But one more trip to the gift store and I found some angel salt and pepper shakers.  My gift to myself for the day. 

Finally at 2:30…….5 hours now since we got here this morning. The nurse calls me to get this stupid IV out. I call sleeping beauty and he picks me up at the front door.

But my story is. I think those nurses need to have a perm…..or a IV every once in a while. They need to be patient with the patients and kind and caring. I know it is there job. But Pleasure in the job, makes perfection in the work. We all have heavy burdens to carry. You shouldn’t make anyone carry your bag for you. 

 Or get a perm every so often just to see how the perm rods hurt and it stinks and it is hard to lay your head in the sink to rinse it off.  Or maybe a color then have stains all around your face you need to hide for a week.  

Off tomorrow for all my test results. Then to kick this cancer in the butt 💐

Beth😇