When you hit a certain age , you are to go in periodically to get your colon checked out..... Unfortunately my dad has reached said age. Since mom could not get off of work, I went in her place. Once they called dad back for the procedure to be done I was rather bored. I had my ipod to listen to but it was not doing a very good job keeping me entertained. About an hour later, they call the family of Daniel Nelson to come back. I get up and head on back there to see him. He was sleeping when I got there. I had no idea if I was supposed to try to wake him up or just chill until he decided to wake up. I chose the latter. After about ten minutes of waiting and the little machine saying he had no blood pressure, which he really did because he had a strong pulse, I decided I would try to wake him up. So I call his name a couple times and he opens his eyes and looks at me and says, "Oh, well I guess I already had everything done." I told him that he had. He was asleep again already. I say his name again and then I'm talking to him a little bit trying to see how he was feeling and everything. The nurse comes in and checks everything. She leaves again and dad is going in and out the whole time. Then he kinda wakes up a little bit and is telling me about how the nurse missed his vein when she was putting the IV in and then he started to doze a little bit. He opened his eyes a little and then he started chuckling to himself a little bit. I was real confused about what he was laughing at, but he went on to tell me that he was relaxed and he opened his eyes just in time to see a little penguin dance across the foot of his bed. I was dying laughing!
Then, he asks to see the little print out of the pictures they took of his They took a picture of a polyp that they found, don't worry the biopsy came back alright, and he goes on to say "Hmm I have a little breast inside me." I was trying so hard to keep my laughter in, and asked him what he was talking about. He then showed me the picture and low and behold he was right. That is what it looked like in the picture.
He got up to use the bathroom. The nurse helped him up and everything, and helped in there and closed the door behind her and then she was getting everything ready for him to see the doctor again. She and I were chatting a little bit and she noticed she hadn't heard anything in the bathroom for a little while. (They pump your stomach and intestines with air when they do the prosedure so it has to get out somehow.) So, she being a knowledgeable nurse yells out, "Mr. Nelson, keep your eyes open, and take long slow breaths." Then you here from the bathroom, "Can you like see me in here?" I once again started laughing.
We get to talk to the doctor eventually and while we are waiting I hear about how the nurse messed up on his IV about another 5 times.
On the way home, it is about 2pm, and dad insists on getting the GPS out and using it to see if there is any traffic to avoid..... There was not any traffic.... the whole way.... and he was still trying to do it.... while telling me about the nurse missing his vein. It finally started working when we were almost home. And the GPS let me know there was no traffic to avoid. Oh and we are about 2 minutes from the house and he tells me that I better get home quick because he was feeling nauseous. I stepped on that gas like nobodies business and got him home fast. I was not going to be cleaning out that car. Then we arrived home and he went to sleep again.
That is my adventure at the Kelsey- Seybold Main Campus clinic.
