Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Weird question at hospital

I'm slowly on the mend.  Appendix surgery is not fun, but not the worst thing in the world (except that I've developed a deep cough that really hurts the surgery area).   I jokingly wonder if my belly button will explode out along with everything inside....  I had no idea one of the 3 points of entry for this surgery was the belly button. Seems kind of like a bad horror movie to me....

On a funny note - Spark Plug thought that the surgery was her fault.  She remembered shooting me in the stomach with a N*RF dart gun a few days earlier & assumed that's why I needed surgery!  HA!

My hospital stay was fairly typical.  You won't find me complaining about pain or other things since so many people experience this ailment or much much worse.  I was pretty well taken care of.

But my time in the hospital was weird in one way....

On 3 different occasions
3 different times of day
from 3 different strangers
of 3 very different ages (& different genders)
I got asked this question:

"Are you a missionary?"

WHERE DOES THAT COME FROM?!?!
Why would that come up?
2 of those 'asks' were before I was sedated/medicated, so it's not like I was rambling incoherently.  And there were tonnes of appendix surgeries that day, so it's not like it's a missionary disease....

Weird.

I.B.

1 comment:

Kate said...

You should ask Ry about my incoherent post surgery, belly button thoughts. Oh dear. Glad you're on the mend. Crazy nerf guns, huh?