I love those ‘change the light bulb jokes.”  For example:

How many psychiatrists does it take to change a lightbulb?  One!  But only if it wants to change!

I had a day full of lots of changes.

When I left for work this morning at 7:10am it was pretty mild out.  I got to work and it was freezing!  I mean goosebumps all day freezing.  As I would take blood pressure cuffs off of patients, I kept noticing how warm their arms felt beneath my touch.  Of course, we give them those big wonderful warmed-up blankets!  But I also had a few patients say to me, “Oh!  Your hands are cold!”  Sorry.

The day was winding down and I was one of the nurses allowed to leave early – Yay! – and as I literally opened the door to leave, it began pouring down rain – like buckets – like cats and dogs.  Yeah, and I parked all the way at the back of the parking lot to give the closer parking to patients.  I had sandals on and jeans.  I went as quick as I could to my car through the waterfall of rain and threw myself into the driver’s seat positively drenched!  Oh boy – not only was I cold; I was now freezing cold and wet.

I drove home in a torrential downpour with my heater at full blast, trying to warm myself up and dry my clothes.  My feet were the worst – so cold and wet.  It was a crazy day of changing “weather.”  From mild conditions, to Arctic breezes, to rainforest downpour, to Florida heat wave.

And then there was this issue of my contacts.  I am still getting used to them.  The right eye lens is just peachy.  The left – well I had one lens to wear for a few days so I could get used to wearing contacts until my actual prescription lens became available.  The prescription one was a stronger lens then what was originally given to me.  So, I picked up my correct prescription trial pair yesterday – and they gave me 3 new lenses:  another one for the right eye and 2 more for the left.  Well I opened one box yesterday marked -L- for left and put that slippery sucker in my left eye.  Hmmm …. vision seemed worse and not better.  But I wore if for the whole day.  It was not as good as the one I had in my eye the day before.

Then – I LOOKED at the two boxes marked -L- and realized they were different.  Huh?  So today I put the THIRD contact in my left eye – figuring perhaps THIS was the right prescription (it had a bigger number on the box – so it must be stronger/better- right?)  and I still could not see as well as contact number one.

It was funny – there I am working at a place that does eye surgeries and as I was helping an elderly man post-surgery, he asks me, “Why are you squinting?”  He said it bothered him that here he was at an eye surgery place and one of the workers is squinting.  Haha!  I told him I was getting used to contacts – he was joking about it and not really seriously concerned.  But it was funny.

So in the past two days I have changed my left contact three times.  I don’t know which one is the correct contact.  And worse – I have two contact cases and because I’m trying to figure out which one works best, I’ve kept all three in the case(s) when I take them out – but – I don’t know which is which.  Right now, (sorry for the swearing here, but this is how I told Ted and it just defines where I’m at with these contacts) “I don’t know what the hell is in my left eye.” – I just keep changing them around to see which one works best.  I hope the eye doctor can tell them apart.

So – it’s been a day of change and changes.  The weather.  My left eye contact.  But it’s all good.  Better to laugh and be flexible.  At least my feet are warm and dry now.  🙂  And I can see what I need to see.

Change?

How many Chinamen does it take to change a lightbulb?  Thousands, because Confucius say many hands make light work.

And for my Lutheran church friends:

How many Lutherans does it take to change a lightbulb?  Change???????

just Laurel

Malachi 3:6  I the Lord do not change.