monday post 18

good evening! i popped online @ 7:25pm; hopefully, PIG mum'll lemme stay online till 9:25pm before gleefully forcing me off to bed. anyways, TWFT topic's 'wonder and worship', and em's been hard @ work plodding 512 steps today. not lots today, coz i had an MRI!
-PIG mum gave me fifteen more minutes this morning, then got me up and kitted before making me walk out to the gobbling :P table.
-breakfast was three yummy weetbix with one tiny drizzle of honey.
-PIG mum made me walk out to the car. today she gleefully forced poor em to buckle her own seatbelt all day, and we also listened to michael leung's hits of ten years disc all day.
-PIG mum tootled us off to the princess alexandra for my MRI. i spent the whole trip having a silent chat to percy, asking him please to give PIG mum a heart and lemme use sparkless today.
-and she did. phew. :)
-i used the loo once first, then went to wash and dry both hands when PIG mum used the loo herself.
-first, they took an x-ray to see where my shunt was, then i went back to get cannulated.
-that's where the trouble started. >< two nurses try twice, fail. that's four ouchy needles. the doctor comes, but he's bloody USELESS, coz he tries THRICE without success! >< in the end, he gets me to lie down, jabs local anaesthetic (which bloody stings! ><) into poor era before finally getting the cannula in. that's NINE jabs. >< poor era's so traumatised, she's gonna need six months to get over this incident, by which time it's another MRI time again! ><
-but i went inside, where a nice man asks me all the routine questions then with some lady's help, takes off my AFO and gets me into the machine.
-i ask him why i can't sing out aloud; he explains that my brain enjoys my singing too much and starts dancing along to it. :P so i just sing inside my head today.
-MRI takes around six songs. once i'm back out, i remind the guys i'm not allowed to sit upright. they slide me onto this bed, and wheel me back to PIG mum.
-and thus the waiting game begins. i use a pan, then sit and sing inside my head.
-janet the nurse found me a lolly! true, licorice is disgusting, but it's sweet, so i suck it happily. :)
-lol, i actually fall asleep partway singing through my favourite song! i was still sucking my lolly; lucky i didn't swallow it and choke myself! :P
-PIG mum kindly feeds me a crunchy choc chip museli bar, but when i'm still hungry afterwards, she writes me a note on a tissue:"LIE DOWN" THEN WANDERS DOWN TO THE CAFETERIA AND BUYS US SOME CHIPS WITH GRAVY, WHICH SHE KINDLY FEEDS ME. YUM. :) sorry, shrieking! ><
-dr. lee comes to visit! he's working around there somewhere, see. and he buys me a twix bar! :D
-i eat half. PIG mum demands some, so i offer her 1/4 of the other half. she refuses and takes like 1/3. whatever.
-this asian doctor FINALLY comes and resets the shunt for me. he can speak canto, and i'm relieved now, coz i asked him, "hey, if i forget and sit up or sth, will i like DIE?!" he reassures me, "nah. you might just get a bad headache." lol, phew. :p
-after taking me to the loo once, PIG mum tootled us home. sadly, she won't lemme visit BIRU, but she promises i can when we attend the follow-up.
-back home, i give myself a nice hot shower. well, i try to, only PIG mum keeps turning the water cooler, only for me to turn the water hotter again. repeat repeat repeat. :P
-i wash my hair. PIG mum also gleefully forces poor ela to scrub era and elf like fifty times.
-then i dry and rekit myself. PIG mum finishes with my socks and shoes before making me walk back out to the gobbling :P table.
-dinner: rice tonight, with lotsa bok choy, one huge chunk of sweet carrot, and a few slices of ... pork, maybe. :P of course, PIG mum gleefully forces poor ela to hang onto the bowl while i ate, whatever. dinner was washed down with one mug of yummy fruit and vegie juice, which i was very careful to hold 'correctly'.
-PIG mum makes me walk back to the piano chair, and i tootle opnline. *sigh* my PISSY two hours is the MOST IMPORTANT part of the day for me, yet PIG mum still turns it into a misery by forcing me to sit in a backrest-less chair. ><
-toms: save me, it's a bloody torture session with vincent the physio toms. >< i wonder if i can give my session up to PIG mum? poor lady's got subluxation of her shoulder, i think.
-but karen's coming in the arvo. we'll have fun. :) righteo, hope everyone has a smashing day toms!
cheers,
em. ^^