When it rains it pours

When it rains, it pours and ironically today it's raining.

So I made an appointment for myself this morning at the Broadlands Family practice,  a new doctors office to check out the pain in my back.  I was actually excited because since moving to Brambleton, I haven't been able to change all our old doctors from Alexandria.  Cody still sees his peditrician in Fairfax which is a good 1/2 hour away with no traffic.  So with my back pain, I called to get in.  I actually got a 2pm appointment. Would have liked it a little earlier in the day but oh well.  Take what you can get right?

As I was dropping Cody off at preschool, my radiation therapist called on my cell.  She asked if I could come get my radiation treatment earlier today.  Normally I'm at work and wouldn't be able to but since I took off today for my back, I thought, yes, let's get this over with.  So I left Cody's school and headed toward Reston.

I got there pretty quick even with the rain coming down.  The student was there again training.  She started lining up my tattoos and calling out numbers to make sure I was positioned correctly.  As usual, it took a little longer than normal.   When I was done, they were ready to start my radiation.  All the sudden there was a quick power outage.  And my radiation machine was done.  I was there about a hour when they said engineers had to be called in to fix it so they told me to go home and they would call when the machine was back up and running.

So I got home and about 1/2 hour later the radiologist called.  The machine was working and they had several appointments available, the 1st being 1:30.  I couldn't take that one because I wouldn't make it home in time for my 2pm appt.  So I told her I would get there as soon as my doc appointment was over.  Afterward, I took a nap.  My body is just so tired from not going to bed till after midnight.  Mom called me at 1:30 so I would wake up.    I got up, put my wig and hat on and started heading to the door when the phone rang.  It was the Broadlands Family practice.  And guess what?  The doctor was sick so they had to postpone my appointment till tomorrow.  Like I said, when it rains, it pours.

I called the radiologist office and turns out the next available appointment was at 2:45 so I headed out in the dreadful rain.  I'm even more tired now than I was before.  The rain, road spray, grey skys.  It's so hard to focus.  Luckily, the machine was in proper working order and I finally got my radiation treatment.