Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Hospital Tour

Last night Jordan and I went on a tour of the hospital where I'll be delivering. I should have foreseen the lack of intelligence on this tour before I even set out. They sent a letter to confirm your attendance that told all about how to get to birthing classes. I had to call find out where to go. And I still was unsure when I got there. Upon the arrival of the tour guide, I thought to myself "what an overly sweet kind of out-of-it" lady. She said, "We'll start at the beginning." Then we went to the baby nursery. I'm not sure how delivering a baby starts with the baby nursery but whatever. As we progressed through the tour, I realized she was failing to answer anyone's questions. At one point, Jordan asked, "So when we come to the hospital, where do we go first?" I can't remember her response because it had nothing to do with the question but I do remember thinking, "why is Jordan asking her a question?" Later he told me I even looked at him funny. When people asked questions specific to the hospital like, "do you have squat bars for birthing?" She responded saying, "Ask your doctor about positions for labor and delivery." Anyways, so we are briefly viewing a 2nd birthing room, and she says, "You'll have to excuse my awkwardness, I just had back surgery, and I have to wear this huge back brace." Then a lightbulb went off in my head. She must have been on some pain drugs or something
because she wasn't making a lick of sense. To make a long story short, we do know where to go but it was more because we figured it out than the "overly sweet definitely out-of-it on pain medication" tour lady.

2 Comments:

At 1:10 PM, Blogger Jordy said...

I thought it was great when she snickered about having back surgery. It was kind of like, "Ooo weeeeee, I had back surgery!!! (Knocks body), see I have this big awkward brace on! AAA weeeee!"

 
At 6:06 PM, Blogger Christen said...

I totally laughed out loud in my little cubicle at your story! Oh man- and "why is Jordan asking a question?" hehe... Let's hope she was on drugs and not like that all the time!

 

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