Lizzy McFly

I had an appointment with my neurologist at the McMaster MS Clinic yesterday.  My mother joined me and we headed out to Hamilton around 1:45.  Nothing exciting happened on the drive to the hospital, until we actually got there.  We drove down the ramp into the parking garage, and waited for the van in front of us to take his ticket.  He stopped so far away from the machine that he had to open his door and partially step out to reach it.  It took a few attempts, but he finally got it.  Hello!  We would like to get inside and park sometime today!  Well, it didn’t end there.  He just got through the gate when he stopped again.  At this point, I had already pulled up (within arms length of the machine – duh!) and took my ticket.  I started to pull through, thinking this guy is going to keep going, but he didn’t.  I had to stop and thought the mechanical arm was going to come down on my trunk!  The arm came down within inches of my car.  He still sat there and a string of cars were behind me at that point.  I had no where to go as I was inches from him and the gate arm.  He got out of his van and looked up at the top of his vehicle.  It was then that I realized the rack on his roof had actually hit the pipes on the ceiling.  Duh again!  He hit the first one and the next one was a few feet ahead.  They were through the entire parking garage.  We sat there for a few minutes while he scratched his head and looked at the pipes.  I was getting really annoyed, as I’m sure the people behind me were, so Jan got out and checked the space behind me.  I had just enough room to make a 27 point turn (tee hee!) and head down the next aisle.  Ugh!  Fortunately, we found a perfect spot in the area of the MS clinic.  Despite the fiasco, we were still quite early for my appointment.  We had a coffee and perused the gift shop.  After checking in upstairs at the clinic, I was taken in within minutes of arriving.  My appointment was over in about 20 minutes.  Since Jan and I were meeting up with my friend for 5:00, we decided to head down to the blood lab to get the blood work done that I needed for the new med I’m going on.  We were the only ones there so I was called in before we even sat down.  After that, Jan and I just killed some time in the Fortinos grocery store outside of the restaurant, before meeting my friend.  It was such a nice visit.  We speak via email every day but haven’t actually seen each other in about two years.

Posted by Lizzy McFly at 1/5/2011 6:08 PM