1. No kidding.
When I strolled into the Kootenai Lab Services suite this morning, inside myself I was still laughing at myself for getting things so fouled up yesterday.
On the outside, though, I approached the counter like a pro as if nothing had happened yesterday and told the woman at the counter I was there for blood work ordered by Natasha Barauskas.
It was a long list of tests and that list tested the inexperience of the employee who was helping me.
She had to enter these orders for the phlebotomist and invited me to take a seat while she did so.
As I said, she was inexperienced and some of the order confused her and, from my seat in the waiting room, I could see other more seasoned employees coming over to help her. I'd say about six patients who arrived after I did had blood drawn ahead of me -- no problem -- and then I heard the inexperienced employee say the magic words:
"Wow! That was a learning experience!"
I loved it.
Yes, I had to wait for longer than usual, but it heartened me to know that this kind employee not only solicited help understanding the order, but will, no doubt, understand things better the next time a transplant recipient needs her help that she didn't understand before I sauntered in today.
Oh, by the way, the results of my tests started to roll in a couple of hours later and, so far, the results look solid, stable, encouraging.
2. I had a very pleasant session with the woman who drew my blood and then I went out into the world and successfully sought pleasure.
I had a 20 oz triple latte at the coffee stand just outside the lab and read more of East of Eden.
I drove to Elmer's and enjoyed a garden vegetable omelette with hash browns and a flaky biscuit.
I gassed up at Costco.
I stopped in at Trader Joe's and bought fruit for my contribution to family dinner tonight and a few other items that I was sure Debbie would enjoy.
Then I had an easy drive back to Kellogg listening to indie pop rock from the late 1980s and 1990s., beginning with what's becoming, after listening to it for nearly twenty years, one of my favorite albums, Luna's Bewitched.
3. Christy and Carol attended a PEO state convention over the weekend, leading us to have family dinner on Tuesday. Carol organized a dinner of salads. I used the fruit I bought at Trader Joe's to make a fruit salad and served it with a Greek yogurt and fresh lemon juice dressing. Christy made a superb pasta salad using ingredients already in her pantry at home and think I ate three, maybe four helpings of it -- it was that good! I also had multiple helpings of Carol's fresh and artful Cobb salad -- it, too, was that good!
We discussed a lot of things tonight with some special attention on local businesses and our efforts to support them and we talked about coffee, how we brew it, the beans we purchase, and the challenges (for me at least) of grinding our own beans.
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