The night before you are to have a procedure done at the hospital, there's something you should never, ever do. Do not take a medical terminology test and then get distracted and research ancient medical practices. Even if your research has absolutely nothing to do with the procedure you're about to have done, it will somehow relate to it in your dream later that night.
If you decide to research ancient medical practices, you will come across things like this: Ancient Surgical Tools From Rome and this: Ancient Greek Tools (click on them if you dare).
Your dream will end up something like this...
You go to the hospital on the day of the procedure. The nurse comments on your choice of clothing, and that's when you realize you are wearing the Flashdance type shirt that your daughter wore to your 80's party a couple weeks ago. And nothing else. As you're laying on the table waiting to be poked at, you ask them what kind of local you will be getting. And since you just took a big ol' test on the nervous system before you went to sleep, you will then spell out anesthesia to the doctor. He will tell you how impressed he is with your ability to spell this word and ask you for more medical terms. As you're laying there, reciting pretty much your entire medical terminology test to this doctor in your dreams, you look over at the table. What do you see? This Dremel tool, this ancient vaginal speculum, this bloodletting tool, and this very scary ancient skull saw. The doctor will then take the Dremel tool and drill holes in your feet to insert a catheter. "Are you sure you want the catheter to go in my foot?" you ask. The doctor and nurse laugh at how silly some patients can be. And because the foot is so far from the bladder, they need to use the bloodletting tool to get rid of some blood to allow for the catheter to go in your foot and up your body to your bladder. Because apparently if veins are empty internal organs sink to the floor. The skull saw is needed because the doctor decides your bladder is too far from your foot. Of course you tell him you knew that and offer him to read your anatomy book. So the nurse uses the skull saw to cut your head open to reach for your bladder. The whole time you're saying, "I think I need a sedative for this. I'm not sure I can stay calm through all of this. Do you have any anesthesia laying over there? I'm getting kind of nervous..." Thankfully you will wake up before you find out what they are going to do with the speculum.
This dream will cause you to wake up in a confused panic. Driving to the hospital, visions of rusty old-school tools flying in front of your eyeballs, you are very nervous. The only thing that keeps you calm is an odd mix of Snoop Dogg & Eagles songs. Listening to these songs for the 25 minute drive will leave you with a mixed-up song in your head. The mixed-up song is something about a witchy woman drinking gin & juice while riding fences at a hotel in California, where she's droppin' the pimp like it's hot. Do not, whatever you do, sing this out loud! The elderly folks in the waiting room will reach to turn down their hearing aids so fast that they'll smack their hand on the brakes on their wheelchair and roll down the corridor, screaming about red heads singing. It's not a pretty sight.
Now if you decide to not take my advice, and you do those things before a procedure, don't call me crying. I will have no sympathy, because I warned you.
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