Pre-surgical Testing

 I am having hip replacement surgery on June 9th and have been getting clearances from assorted doctors. On Thursday I went for pre-surgical testing and of course I brought along my sketchbook. I find that when I go to the doctor's office if there is something to sketch and I pull out my sketchbook, someone comes in to do their test/procedure almost immediately. If I don't have the sketchbook I sit and wait.

I tried sketching in the waiting room but was called in too quickly to get anything other than the top of the hand sanitizer dispenser sketched. Next I was in a room where I was asked a zillion questions about my medical history and then told I needed to give a urine sample and then they would do blood tests. When I came back to the room there was a big carryall with lots and lots of blood vials. No phlebotomist in site so I was able to do an ink sketch of what was in front of me. I added the color at home. La Shawna had a delicate touch and it went well.

Next I sat in a very boring hallway for a very long time waiting for someone to take me to x-ray.  There was nothing to sketch except doorways. Then I was wheeled through the labyrinth of connecting hallways from one building to the x-ray room in the hospital itself. There was a patient ahead of me so I sketched her while we waited. My x-rays were done fairly quickly and then I was done. Of course I was now on a completely different end of the hospital and had to walk through all the hallways back to where my car was parked. :(  I was glad all of that was over.