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1/24/2005 6:13:17 PM
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bets
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Ok, this is not an urban legend. Picture the disabled vet at the veteran`s hospital going for her annual dreaded exam-you know the one...
She gets into that GARMENT, you know, the half of an ugly housedress-hops up on the exam table, waits a few minutes. Decides she wants to look at the book she brought in with her to ease the waiting...steps off the sandpaper step, and WHAM! Just like stepping on to black ice in winter!!! Her stocking feet hit the waxed floor, soon to be followed by her butt, back, elbows, you name it!
So when the RN comes in, she tells her that the hospital needs to install a rubber mat at the base of the exam table, because it is really dangerous. The dreaded exam finishes up, and the RN is fiddling with slides. The patient grabs a stirrup, steps gingerly off the step and WHAM!!!! Flat on her back again!
So by now, you`ve probably guessed who the patient is(yours truly)! I have NEVER filed an accident report at a hospital as a patient until today-so to all of you who have to go, pay attention to those waxed floors and stocking feet! I am trying to see if I am raising any bruises, and am betting I`ll be sore tomorrow!
BE CAREFUL---Especially you, T!!!! Have a laugh at my expense, just don`t end up staring at the ceiling with tears in your eyes!
Bets
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1/24/2005 7:01:49 PM
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preciouspups
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Bets I am so sorry you had a bad day. THAT exam is never pleasant and then to end up on your butt is just terrible. Next year make sure your socks have those little no-skid pads on the bottom.
Kim
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1/24/2005 7:29:55 PM
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Sandra D
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Ouch, Bets, that must have hurt! Hope the soreness will not be bad.
Sandra
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1/24/2005 7:44:24 PM
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benne
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Oh Bets,
Talk about heaping one indignity on top of another! I`m sorry, that experience qualifies as a truly BAD DAY! I`m glad nothing was broken, but I know you`ll be sore. And I`m not laughing, I wish you were sitting in a whirlpool with an adult beverage, some of your wonderful Tyler Texas candles burning and someone was heating a huge towel for you to step into.
Benne
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1/24/2005 7:58:08 PM
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bets
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Sheesh-
Carrying safety-pad socks to a GYN appointment would be the ULTIMATE in dorkdom! However, given that I wiped out twice in the space of 30 minutes on the same surface, I might have to consider it. Think I`ll complain to the VA--because if it`s not fixed NEXT visit, there WILL be a problem. And that`s in a few weeks!
B
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1/24/2005 8:38:25 PM
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Les
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Oh, Bets, you poor thing! Those kind of things usually happen to me! Bare butt on that cold waxed floor! (let alone the wacked elbows and back) I`m sure you didn`t need a lesson in humility with a repeat!!
Years ago when I was in my 20`s and single, I went for my exam and the Dr. brought in a resident - low and behold, the resident was someone who I had met at a party the wkd before! yuck! We both pretended not to know each other!
Les
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1/25/2005 5:26:32 AM
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benne
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Whoa, Les, that must have had you ready to pull the sheet over your head! lol
Benne
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1/25/2005 5:43:00 AM
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Guest
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How awful - but at least you have the grace to laugh about it. I think a big heaping helping of really, really good chocolate helps bruises heal faster!
luckily my Dr. office has carpeted floors. I do wish they`d turn up the heat a little though. I hate being in there in the half a piece of paper (mine uses those horrible throwaway paper thingies) and getting cold waiting.
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1/25/2005 7:39:07 AM
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Guest
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Oh, Betsy - this is the kind of thing that is hysterical when Sandra Bullock does it in a movie, but maybe not so funny in real life! I`m just glad you did not hit your head on anything on the way down...
And hey, as a disabled vet, do you think they`d let you wear a nicely broken in pair of combat boots while up on that table? It would sure beat a repeat of this, even if it was a little odd with your tailored skirt and chanel purse....
Thanks for the warning!
T
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1/25/2005 11:10:10 AM
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Marta
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Oh, Bets, I hope you are not too sore today... Take it easy, you deserve a break - no pun intended!
Les, what are the odds of that happening? You`ll never forget that story...lol
Marta
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1/25/2005 11:49:31 AM
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Patricia
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Could you and Benne be twins seperated at birth? Too funny.
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1/25/2005 6:24:12 PM
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Libby
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Bets,
Sorry that you had to deal with that as well as THAT. Goodness gratious a girl cant get a break around here. Hopefully you`ll be feeling better soon and you know my motto. Chocolate solves everythign!
Libby
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1/26/2005 4:02:42 AM
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bets
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Les, when I was in my 20s and single, I worked in the hospital.
In the pre-HPPA days, the fellas used to LOOK at appointments in the hospital computer-the girls with multiple GYN appointments were the ones no one wanted to date.
But if you knew your intern enough to be embarrassed, that means one of you had designs on the other....oh, agony!
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