The day, dare I say, has been good…thus far. I went to the Doctor this morning and everything synched perfectly with my planned agenda for the day…that is if we ignore the fact, that I did not hear the alarm this morning and woke up 25 minutes before my scheduled appointment\ud83d\ude44 but I still managed to swallow my pills (cheers\ud83e\udd42), jump into some clothes, brush my teeth and finger comb my hair. When I arrived at the Doctor’s rooms, I was surprised with a cheerful “Good morning” from my favourite nurse, back from her holiday and a fist pump from my Doctor\ud83d\udc4a. Within 5 minutes after my arrival I was already seated at a cubicle, waiting to be tested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First up, was the customary poking with a needle, draining my precious blood into multiple glass vials, ready to be sent to the lab. In no time, I was on a treadmill in my sporty black sneakers, patched, wired and ready to…walk, not too briskly and at a slight incline\ud83d\ude44…because of no cross ligaments in my left knee, a thin string of leftover muscle in my left calf and a considerate Doctor, knowing that just having my own two legs and being able to walk, is sort of an accomplishment already…BTW lugging this fat ass around, for 3 minutes on a treadmill, even when only walking uphill at a slightly faster pace, is more than enough exercise to make me sweat like a pig, pant like a heavy breather and make my heart bounce around like a rubber ball when you drop it!\ud83e\udd75 But…I survived the 3 minutes and the nurse could not disguise her surprise when she saw a healthy heart rate, healthy sugar and cholesterol levels and a pretty normal blood pressure form someone like me…I can’t understand, how someone that’s overweight, who considers getting dressed as an exercise routine and tomato sauce as a legitimate vegetable…can score such a normal average on medical tests \ud83e\udd23<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After quite a tiring day, I finally arrived home. It’s 9am, I am dressed and can see a loooooong day ahead.\ud83d\ude44 Maybe a bit of retail therapy will cheer me up, so I start thinking about all the things I can buy, that’s completely worthless and not needed. \ud83e\udd14 Maybe a cell phone?? After a sobering conversation with myself, I had to agree that “because I’m bored with this one” <\/em>is not a good argument in any debate. Hah! Ok. Then I shall get a closed, tempered glass, magnetic cover for my phone.\ud83d\ude0f Funky AF and protecting your phone at the same time! As I start Googling to see where I can find one, my screen gets flooded with flashing Black Friday ads on every website I visit…What’s the date today? Ahhh Man! Dammit, now it’s even unsafe to go to the local supermarket for bread and milk. Oh well, the laptop is open so I might as well have a look to see whether the online clothing sites have new stock…\ud83d\ude44 Nothing new since I last checked and then I see a category “Face Covers and Masks<\/strong>“. Awww, its the cutest facemasks in a variety of colours, styles, materials and co-ord sets! \ud83d\ude32 The sets are masks and scrunchies, masks & beanies, masks & scarves, gloves, earrings and anything you can possibly imagine that will match a mask! Some of their outfits, even comes with a matching mask in the same material…Wow! If anyone told me about this category and our current situation a year ago, I would have laughed it off and remarked that it sounds like a low budget, apocalyptic movie…those with random scenes of naked boobs and shitty dialogue\ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n\n\n\n What a nice surprise this day turned out to be, not as bad as I imagined…I was preparing for a major bitch fight and expected the usual antagonistic attitude from the Doctor’s staff, but instead, I arrived at an empty, quiet waiting room and getting my favourite nurse in a good mood after a well deserved holiday! I think it’s safe to say, that this has been my best Black Friday experience ever! I am convinced, the Doctor’s rooms were so empty and quiet on a Friday, due to so many people doing some Black Friday retail therapy, before they remembered they are actually supposed to be sick and will need a Doctor’s note on Monday! \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The day, dare I say, has been good…thus far. I went to the Doctor this morning and everything synched perfectly with my planned agenda for the day…that is if we ignore the fact, that I did not hear the alarm this morning and woke up 25 minutes before my scheduled appointment\ud83d\ude44 but I still managed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblingrabbit.co.za\/di\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblingrabbit.co.za\/di\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblingrabbit.co.za\/di\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblingrabbit.co.za\/di\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblingrabbit.co.za\/di\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblingrabbit.co.za\/di\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblingrabbit.co.za\/di\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblingrabbit.co.za\/di\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblingrabbit.co.za\/di\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}