Out!

The word versed, can mean experienced or practiced, as in being versed in a profession...  But!!!!........

That would be if the word were vurst ,  but if the word becomes ver sed' pronounced ver said', that becomes something very different.....

Its this latter word that became the center of my day and experience this morning.....   I mustered into admitting at the University of Kansas Hospital at 9:30, almost a civil time rather than those way early AM operations..   But still I was ushered into the little pre op cubical with a draw curtain and a bed on wheels...

I've been thru this dozens of times, so I don't need to have the instructions about the hospital gown tying up the back.   And today the only thing I lost was my shirt because they were doing a scope of my upper GI tract...

They started an IV in my hand and gave me something to calm me....  It didn't do much, but then they gave me some gargle.... WOW!  That was way stronger than anything I have experienced at any dentist....   In only a few moments my tongue and teeth and throat were gone..... Completely numb...

Next I was rolled into the room where the scope procedure was to be performed....  They hustle and bustle around you and open all sorts of little sterile packages......  They had me roll over on my left side and then told me that I would be receiving the Ver Sed.   That's the drug of choice to send you to bye bye land!  Just like that I was gone.....

I kind of remember being rolled back into the curtained recovery area where I started, but only faintly.....  And in about a half hour, I was putting my shirt on and being told that everything seemed to be ok except for a computer glitch which lost all the pictures they took..  I guess we'll have to take his word for it, as he doesn't get  a do over from me,   anyway..

I was teasing that I could ride the motor scooter down there for the procedure, but there was no way I could have ridden it back home....  Heck I was drifty dreamy as Loyce drove home...

I ate a few crackers and some sprite once I was home and began reading blogs.................        ...................   zzzzzzzzzz.   ......... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

It was after 5 PM when I finally came to....

Even tonight, I'm not on the top of my game here, but at least we know that bad things aren't growing in my upper GI tract...

And in reading the Romeo forum about yesterday's ride, it was overcast and almost spitting rain for most of the way down to Warsaw, Mo.  This must have deterred most of the riders, as they only had about 20 folks show up...   That's way down from the 60 or more that come on normal days.... So perhaps my decision not to stress myself on the day before the big hospital procedure was quite prudent....

Retired Rod