Beautiful Day

Flowers arrived yesterday with a card that said, “Hope you are able to enjoy this beautiful day!” Great sentiment, for it was a beautiful day, and I was able to enjoy it as much as one “enjoys” such things. We met loads of wonderfully helpful and kind people–several with very good senses of humor. Gary, the Operating Room tech, even showed me his funky socks after spying my neon-green turtle ones. I lost count after meeting 20 people: great nurses, technicians, transportation operators, several specialists doctors for three separate procedures. A transportation guy was able to grab me a “stall” and park my bed by the window while awaiting surgery so I could enjoy the sunshine and the view. The nuclear medicine guys had a great time ribbing a STCC student tech–they kept beeping every time she moved me and called out, “Student Driver!” They were all very professional but didn’t let the gravity of the situation keep them from enjoying their jobs and putting this patient at ease.

My spouse and I spent our down time reading. I’m reading The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton (Fiction! I got all the way to chapter 3) and he finished A Naturalist Buys an Old Farm by Edwin Way Teale. When he wasn’t around, I also listened to the soundtrack to “Garden State," a CD I discussed with the Confirmation Class a couple weeks ago with lyrics to one of the songs, “In the waiting line”:
Wait in line
'Till your time
Ticking clock
Everyone stop

I’m just wasting time in the waiting line,
everyone wants a piece of me.
Everyone's saying different things to me,
Different things to me
Everyone's taking everything they can
Everything they can.

Back at home the television mysteriously died when I turned it on (a sign, perhaps?), but I soaked up the sun on the porch and ended the day with Ben & Jerry’s New York Super Fudge Chunk.

All in all, not a bad day.