When speaking to a an anxious patient about the process leading up to surgery, I love to share my funny story of what happened when I went in for my Lap Band, followed by a warning: DO NOT wear that hat to surgery!
So what happened was this.
After admission, I was given my lovely paper gown and underpants to change into, underpants that luckily enough, were big enough to cover my ample bottom, not exposing it to the world. They’re also kind enough to have given me a nice fluffy robe to snuggle in while I await my call for surgery, and maybe so I could pretend that I was at a day spa!
Back in the waiting room with another gentlemen, appropriately gowned for his spa treatments, oh I mean surgery, a lady was bought into the room and handed a basket that seemed to contain the same garments that the rest of us were wearing, and directed to the change room.
A few minutes later, the lady emerges from the change room, clad in her fluffy robe, but sporting an accessory on her head which I was SURE wasn’t in my basket… a lovely paper hat with holes in each side!
She’d taken a lot of effort to ensure that all strands were neatly tucked up into her “cap”, though a few pieces were peskily escaping out from the holes in the sides so she did look a bit crazy professor-ish.
I looked at the man next to me with raised eyebrows, who looked at the lady and himself and then back to me… back to the women again, eyed me up and down and I gave him the nod… silent agreement passing between us that we had infact done the right thing when we placed that two holed paper garment on our BOTTOMS not on our HEADS!
Yes my dear friend, you read this correctly… the poor women had mistaken her underpants for a HAT!
She sat down across from us and the gentleman could not look her in the eye, as I’m sure, just like me, he was busting with laughter on the inside. The nurse comes in to get the gentlemen, walking past the women, whips the hat off the head and states, without a bit of fuss, “Oh dear.. this is meant for your bum, not your head!”
When speaking to a an anxious patient about the process leading up to surgery, I love to share my funny story of what happened when I went in for my Lap Band, followed by a warning: DO NOT wear that hat to surgery!
So what happened was this.
After admission, I was given my lovely paper gown and underpants to change into, underpants that luckily enough, were big enough to cover my ample bottom, not exposing it to the world. They’re also kind enough to have given me a nice fluffy robe to snuggle in while I await my call for surgery, and maybe so I could pretend that I was at a day spa!
Back in the waiting room with another gentlemen, appropriately gowned for his spa treatments, oh I mean surgery, a lady was bought into the room and handed a basket that seemed to contain the same garments that the rest of us were wearing, and directed to the change room.
A few minutes later, the lady emerges from the change room, clad in her fluffy robe, but sporting an accessory on her head which I was SURE wasn’t in my basket… a lovely paper hat with holes in each side!
She’d taken a lot of effort to ensure that all strands were neatly tucked up into her “cap”, though a few pieces were peskily escaping out from the holes in the sides so she did look a bit crazy professor-ish.
I looked at the man next to me with raised eyebrows, who looked at the lady and himself and then back to me… back to the women again, eyed me up and down and I gave him the nod… silent agreement passing between us that we had infact done the right thing when we placed that two holed paper garment on our BOTTOMS not on our HEADS!
Yes my dear friend, you read this correctly… the poor women had mistaken her underpants for a HAT!
She sat down across from us and the gentleman could not look her in the eye, as I’m sure, just like me, he was busting with laughter on the inside. The nurse comes in to get the gentlemen, walking past the women, whips the hat off the head and states, without a bit of fuss, “Oh dear.. this is meant for your bum, not your head!”
