One of the Perks of Bedrest (and there are some!)

How many times have you been to a doctors appointment in the middle of the day and waited an hour or more for your appt since the patients got backed up? Personally, almost every time I've been to the doctor in my life, they are NEVER on time. Well, let me tell you a little secret. JUST TELL THEM YOU'RE ON BEDREST and you'll get right in!

Here's the story from today. BTW, doc appt went great. Cervix has not changed since surgery, which is music to my ears. I'm back home resting in bed and have never been happier to be here. The bed rest is working! The babies looked good, although a quick glimpse was all we got. Anyway...let me try to give you a visual on this (wishing I took my camera so we had a photo of the "double wide"). Thank God for humor - I am so unraveled when I have to leave my safe bed ~ although I enjoy the opportunity to get out, doctors appointments are VERY nerve wracking. I never know if I'm coming back home or getting wheeled over to another upside down bed. That said, it's always good to have funny things happen along the way to lighten the load a bit and forget about the "what if's".

So, here's the funniest part. We pull up out in front of the doctors office (which is jam packed with cars waiting for the valet guy) and Mom runs in to get a wheelchair. Low and behold, she comes out with an extra wide wheelchair, that barely fits through the doors. Needless to say, Mom and I both could have fit in this wheelchair together. And it even had one of those long IV poles sticking up in the back; now THAT is a good look for a seemingly normal woman riding in a wheelchair. Not to mention that obviously the person who was in it before me had a bum leg because the left leg was elevated and sticking straight out. We couldn't figure out how to put it down so we just rolled with it - literally. This also made it a little trickier to get around corners since the leg was sticking out in front. There wasn't a corner we missed clipping on the way up to the 2nd floor. No offense Mom - you're getting better every time. Of course, we laughed every time we hit something. I just tried to keep my hands and feet inside so we didn't have any further casualties. For any of you Seinfeld fans, this was totally like a Seinfeld episode. LOL.

Once we got into the doctors office (which apparently is not made for double wide wheelchairs) they started wheeling me back, after jockying around a few short corners. My favorite nurse (the one who kindly wheeled me to the hospital three weeks ago) saw us coming down the hall and quickly commented by saying "oh wow, where did you get THAT fancy wheelchair?". I had to laugh. Within 5 minutes, they had me weighed, took my blood pressure and I was in a room, on a bed, waiting for Doctor H. Such service!

It was a quick appointment and then we were back out of there - less than 30 minutes. Dr. H even said, no need to stop at the desk on the way out - just keep on rolling. The moral of the story, bedrest patients get preferential treatment, as they should! I'm proud to say, I was treated like a queen and rather enjoyed it!

So, next time you're short on time and need to get in and out of a doc appt:
1. Take someone with you
2. Valet the car
3. Find a wheelchair for yourself and have your friend push you in
4. Bump into as many walls and corners as you can on the way into the doctors office.
5. Make strangers hold the doors for you.
6. Ignore all of the people that stare at you on the way past, wondering what could possibly be wrong with you since you look normal;
7. Tell them you need a bed immediately since you're not supposed to be walking or sitting up for any length of time;

*And I guarantee that you'll be out of there in 40 minutes or less - and that's a promise!