Funny Forgotten Details

Rick's cold and his ongoing sleep deprivation have clearly affected his sense of humor. He forgot to mention the funniest moment of our day (which was long...) Grandma Kathy stayed home to watch a (very bad) movie with Joshua so we could both go to North Country Hospital for a quick stick blood draw with Katie. She talked incessantly during our drive to Newport, reviewing the plans for our hospital visit. We thought we had it made. As we reached the hospital parking lot, however, she began to cry. Oddly enough, she was not all that upset about the lab work. She was disappointed in our destination. She WANTED to go to Fletcher Allen. She continued to cry when we revealed that the lab techs would be drawing blood from her finger and not from her port. "Why don't we access the port?" she whined. Now that was shocking! I cannot imagine that anyone who works in the infusion bay at Fletcher Allen will believe this story--Katie is not the most cooperative patient the infusion bay has ever hosted, and she fights the poor nurses required to access her port--but every word of this bizarre tale is true. She was relatively well behaved for the lab tech at North Country Hospital, who was very kind, she was very happy to have earned some new Dora stickers, and she was happy to make a quick trip to the barn on our way home. Here's the interesting question: Will she be happy to see the kind folks at Fletcher Allen this week? Will she cooperate with the nurses who access her port? (My guess, for the record, would be no--but Katie has always been a character...)