This would only happen to me…

I know that I normally post about the kids and all of the fun stuff that we do but I just have to share what happened to me today.  I had an appointment to have my annual physical.  Obviously, no woman looks forward to that appointment but this is the doctor that helps me regulate my hormones and I desperately needed to see him.  Not to mention that I have been trying to get there for 6 months and every single time, Keyan would end up in the hospital, and I would have to reschedule it.  So, I was very happy that today seemed to be the day that everything was going to fall in line.

My appointment was scheduled for 3:30, and this particular doctor is known to often be running behind, so it is not unusual to wait a little while.  Besides, I was prepared for some good quiet time to get some reading done, so I wasn’t really worried about waiting.  The nurse called me back after about 20 minutes, checks my vitals, measures how tall I am (aren’t I too young to start shrinking?), asks me all of the important questions, and than shows me to my room.  She hands me a little gown and an even littler sheet and says “the doctor will be right in!”  I take off every last stitch of clothes, put on the flimsy gown, try to cover everything else up with the sheet, and take up my obligatory place up on the table.  I get out the ipad, pull up my book, try once again to cover my self up and settle in to wait.

Obviously, I spend A LOT of time in doctors offices with Keyan.  I am VERY accustomed to waiting….but I also have an ongoing fear of being forgotten in those little rooms.  Maybe it is an irrational fear, maybe that never happens, but I always get a little worried about it.  So, I am reading along watching the time slip away and it is nearing 5pm.  I take a deep breath, tell my self to calm down and try to focus on my book.  Suddenly, it is 5:30 and I realize that I can’t hear anything.  It is eerily quiet.  Now I am in a quandary.  Do I put my clothes back on to check about what is going on or do I risk it and go out in my gown?  I figure I am not taking the time to put my clothes on so I wrap everything around me as tight as I can and step out into the hall.  I can’t see or hear anyone.  I wonder around a little bit and finally start nervously yelling “hello???” “HELLO????”  Finally from a dark hallway appears a nurse.  “Did you all forget about me?”  I asked, not sure whether to laugh or cry.  “Oh dear,” she says, “I thought someone had told you that the doctor had an emergency and had to leave but he IS planning on coming back to finish your appointment!”  WHAT????  HE NEVER STARTED MY APPOINTMENT!!!  She proceeds to ask me if I need anything, I tell her no, but that I am going to leave the door open because I am starting to become a little panicked in that little room.  I go back to my book and another HOUR passes.  By this time I do not know what to do.  I realize that most of you would have been long gone by now, but this doctor is an hour away, and  I had finally been able to keep my appointment.  The way our life is, you take what you can get when you can get it so I felt like I needed to try and see the doctor.  At 6:40, I wander back out to find the one lonely nurse and asked her again if she was certain the doctor was coming back…she called him and to make a long story short he arrived shortly there after.

So, what did you do this afternoon?  Me?  I sat in a little room wrapped up in a too small gown, trying to read as a distraction to my panic, laughing to myself that “this would only happen to me!”  It was after 8pm before I get out of there.  They did compensate me for my trouble and he was very apologetic…better than some of the doctors that Keyan sees who feel that their time is SO much more valuable that yours!  I am not lying when I say there is never a dull moment around here!