MAY 1, 20 .. Part 3 of 3 .. FRIDAY MAY 1st .. PROCEDURE DAY AT MAYO CLINIC FOR PATTI

Bottom Line :

At this moment : All is well. All is swell. Subject to pathology and other information forthcoming early next week.

You really don’t need to read further.

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We were advised yesterday that Patti’s ‘procedure’ would be completed and Patti would be ready to leave the Mayo Clinic by 10am this morning.

Translation : Have your driver at Mayo ready-to-go by 10am.

Phoenix has been under an extreme heat advisory this week. In Part 2 below, I explained that those accompanying Mayo patients to the Clinic are not allowed to enter the hospital buildings p-e-r-i-o-d.

What to do?

1. Wait outside, in the parking lot, inside our truck, from 6:15am until maybe 10am, but possibly later, and watch the thermometer slowly climb (day before yesterday we saw 107F) into the 90’s or higher.

Or?

2. Drive 20 minutes back to our cool-air-conditioned motel and await a phone call from Mayo advising me that Patti is ready to be picked up.

I chose Option 2 above.

I came back to our motel. I wrote and published Part 2 of 3 below. Then I did some of my own online Mayo Clinic ‘paperwork’ for my own Mayo Appointment next Monday May 4th, and was about to just-chill-out ..

When..

At 8:20am (twenty minutes past 8 o’clock this morning) NOT 10am, my phone rang..

“Hi. This is Mayo Clinic and your patient is ready-to-be-picked up at Mayo Phoenix 2. When can you be here?”

“Whoa. I was told to be ready at 10am. I’ll be there in 20 minutes. NO! Make that 30-minutes. I’m on-my-way.”

I got to the hospital entrance designated Mayo Phoenix 2 in 20 minutes. Waited for 15 minutes. And, approaching me in a wheel chair with an attendant pushing, here came Patti! 

Yes Indeed. Patti seemed to be A-OK and chipper and in very good / high spirits and happy to have the ‘procedure’ over!

We had a slow and a very easy and calm drive back to our motel basically staying in the right hand traffic lane away from the super fast left and pretty fast middle lanes. We stopped at a local Dollar Tree for bottles of apple juice and Arnold Palmer (half ice-tea and half lemonade). I had breakfast (Patti is on clear-liquids-only for the next day or so) and we visited. 

DRAMA

Our plan has been to stay here in Phoenix today, just relax and chill out after the events of this week. Then, in the cool-of-the-early-morning (5:30am or 6am) tomorrow, have a relaxed drive back North from Phoenix to Kingman, Arizona.

Got it?

STAY PUT TODAY, IN OUR COMFORTABLE, AIR CONDITIONED MOTEL ROOM, HERE IN PHOENIX, AND RELAX AND CHILL-OUT.

The past few days have been pretty stressful for both of us.

11am .. We hear a knock on our room door. I answer. A hotel maid stands before me. “Ma’am I told the front desk we do not need any housekeeping.” .. “Umm Sir I show you checking out.” She shows me her paperwork. I go get our paperwork. Oh-My Oh-My! Our own paperwork shows us checking out today, Friday, May 1st.

Out the door and up to the motel office I trot. Two separate customers (not together) are in front of me in the office. The motel staffer tells customer 1 (strike one) and then customer 2 (strike two) the same thing : “We have no rooms available this evening the property is sold-out.”

Oh-My Oh-My .. is strike three coming at me!?

I’m up at the plate. “Sir how may I assist you today?”

“My wife is just back from having a medical procedure performed at the Mayo Clinic.  She desperately needs to rest. When we checked in last Tuesday we thought we were checking out tomorrow Saturday morning. There’s been a terrible mistake here. Your records show us checking out today! We can’t possibly leave today.”

HAPPINESS IS..

“I’ve got you covered Sir! That will be an additional seventy one dollars and sixty four cents for tonight Sir.”

Don’t any of you call motel 6 in North Phoenix and tell them I would’ve paid a lot more to be able to stay-the-night tonight!

I got back to our room and told Patti the good news.

HAPPINESS IS..

Our room phone rang. I picked it up : “Sir we found your drivers license on the floor here in the front office.”

Oh-My Oh-My what more can I possibly say? I had absolutely no clue it was gone.

As I wrap-this-up Patti is dead-to-the-world sound asleep. Her early exuberance and giddiness when she was helped into our truck at Mayo seems to have totally escaped from her.

I’m about to join her. But first some text messages to YOU.

Sign Me as a ‘relieved’ Captain of our little ship! 

Continue to ‘scroll down’ IF you want to read Parts 1 and 2 of this 3 Part post.

• ← MAY 1, 20 .. Part 2 of 3 .. FRIDAY MAY 1st .. PROCEDURE DAY AT MAYO CLINIC FOR PATTI
• MAY 2, 20 .. HERE WE GO LOOP-DE-LOOP .. PHOENIX TO KINGMAN, ARIZONA →