Another Medical Episode is Over

   Thank God, Jeff finally is home.  He was discharged this afternoon and his sister and I went to Cooperstown to pick him up.  He told me around 11 am that he'd be discharged between noon and 1pm so Sherry did her errands before picking me up.  We stopped at my friend Maggie's on the way down because Maggie had been making fabric masks and had made some for us.  She also had a goodie bag with some homemade tomato sauce and meatballs so I didn't have to worry about supper tonight.  We exchanged jam jars...empties from me for ones full of her delicious strawberry jam.  We got to the hospital about 1:30 expecting to find Jeff ready and waiting to get dressed and leave.
   Ha!  I had been told by 2 different nurses to be sure to bring clean clothes for Jeff because he had nothing with him.  He was a wearing hospital gown, so I packed the duffel bag with clean jeans, cotton shirt, cotton t-shirt, underwear, and wool socks.  He asked for shoes and his teeth, so they were in there,too.  Before we left for Cooperstown I even called and asked the floor nurse how to arrange the clothes delivery.  She said to just walk up to the main door to the hospital, explain the purpose of my visit and hand the suitcase to the guard who would delivery it to the floor nurse.  HA!  again.  
  I did that and the guard called the floor nurse twice and finally it was decided that I should just put the duffel bag of clean clothes back in the car.  They had found Jeff a paper scrub suit and that's what he'd be discharged in.  OK.  Then the wait began.  I later learned from Jeff that all the nurse's aides had  'called in' and every floor/department was short-handed.  (He said doctors' were drawing blood for simple tests.)  Anyway, it took over an hour before Jeff was escorted to the entrance in purple paper scrubs with yellow slipper socks (!!).  His orders were in a plastic bag and were about 1" thick!  Why did it took so long to do the paper work to discharge him when they knew it was going to happen?
   As usual after a hospital stay, Jeff was hungry so we did a detour to Hartwick Seminary and stopped at McDonald's.  Then it was a quick trip to Herkimer and Walmart to pick up his new Rx's.  We got chicken nuggets for the dogs at Burger King as we went thru town.  Now he's taking a nap (both dogs keep visiting him to make sure he's still there).The dogs were thrilled to see him!  They jumped all over him and tried to sit in his lap (Zoey made it but Fanny was satisfied just to put her head on his knee.)  Now I'm going to heat up some of Maggie's spaghetti sauce and have a couple of meatballs for supper.  Tomorrow Jeff has to go to the lab in Herkimer for a blood test and maybe I'll stop at Hanniford's on the way home.  I'm glad this episode is over and hope it's not repeated very soon.