We live not too far from her doctor's office, it's right across from where I had Aiden at Northside Hospital in Atlanta (Sandy Springs). At 2am, with no traffic in sight, doing 80mph, it only takes 30 minutes to get there.
But on a weekday morning, at 8:30am, it takes a little over an hour...if you're lucky.
Today we got there 30 minutes early! and there was a wreck on I-20 that was backing up a few of the off ramps for I-285. But somehow, we still managed to get there early. That almost never happens. We are usually at least 15 minutes late, sweating whether or not they are going to tell us that we have to reschedule now. :/
So we waited for about an hour, when they finally call us back, 30 minutes past at our appointment time. But that's ok. We were good.
Johnnie was holding Aiden because my arms were giving out after a 10 minute full on physical fight/wrestling match to keep him away from a phone that was hanging on the wall DIRECTLY behind my head. And Johnnie being the Daddy that he is, a total genius, has him on his lap watching Hulk cartoons on his phone. (Thank you, CHOA for your open Wi-Fi!!)
But even with Hulk, by the time we are called back, he's starting to wrestle with Johnnie too. He wants down so he can get into everything.
So when they call us back, Johnnie makes a bee-line for the door to take Aiden out to the truck. LOL
Me and Clara got to the back and spent a whopping 5 whole minutes in the ortho office!! :D
He looked at her appliance and looked at me and said, "16 more turns, then stop." got up and walked on to the next patient. Hahaha!! I was like, "Ok, cool!" So we made our next appointment and we were outta there!
(She never looked up from that cell phone! Except when he had to look at her mouth. As soon as he was done, right back into the phone she went!)
She had to have a total of 28 turns. With everything that's going on with her sister, Mary, and just other stressful family stuff, I forgot to turn it every night like I was supposed to. So I turned it a total of 12 times out of 28... not feeling exactly like Mom of the year, but with all that I have going on, I'm not going to beat myself up about it.
I'm just going to remember (with the help of my phone alarm and Google Calendar) to turn the appliance these next 15 times (Cause I already did 1), and be done with it.
She thought it was awesome. The best visit ever! LOL
All she had to do was lay back real quick, say "Ahhh" and she was done. Easy Breezy!
So now we wait until her next appointments coming up in March and then her next Ortho appointment in April. We are good to go! :)
Until Dr. Burstein sees us next week and says, "Surgery". :P
(Originally written on Clara's blog on 02-29-2016)
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