Paul seemed a bit nervous today with his procedure. Last night Ethan was telling him it wasn’t that bad and he shouldn’t be nervous. Easier said than done. We chatted about how Ethan has been through so much medically (since he was a baby) and Paul had not. This is a big deal for Paul even though it was an easy procedure.
Paul was reading there they will be using radiation for the imaging and panicked a little.
“Isn’t radiation bad for you?” He asked.
“Not this small amount.” I assured him. I reminded him that he has been exposed to radiation all over the place. Just small amount. The airport, smoke detectors, ceramic tiles…not all kinds but some kinds. Plus we can even ingest it (potassium 40).
I did my wifely duty of keeping the car ride light. I noticed a school for the blind. I pointed it out and I very seriously asked him
“Do you think they have a driving school?”
We arrived. We went to the floor for cardiology. There were signs all over saying to check in via kiosk. He ignored every single one and started to head up to the receptionist.
I pointed to the sign and directed him to the kiosk. He was annoyed. He did the check in and got to the end and got an error message. He was pissed. We went to the receptionist with him crabbing at me. “See…see what happened.”
Turns out, he was not at the correct location. We had plenty of time. He was now very stressed and I assured him it wasn’t no big deal. I have done it before. You get hyperfocused on the appointment, you sometimes skip the details.
We made it still early to the correct place down the street. Things were smooth sailing from there. They called him, he did his procedure and it took about 15 minutes. No big deal!
Paul turned in our spectrum equipment recently and today we got the call from Spectrum to offer cutting our previous bill in half as a way to get us back. We declined. However, we have a spectrum account and service at camp. We asked if we could use that promotion for camp and they said “No”. He did transfer Paul to another department to see if there were any promotions going on to lower our bill.
I started to document the conversation via photos as the sales man tried to get us to switch over all our cell phones (which was not what we asked for). This guy started spitting out number and told Paul if he switched all of our cellphones to spectrum we could save $2400 a year. He had no knowledge of our current bill.
Basically the guy tried everything he could to get Paul to say “yes”. Then said, “well, I can’t offer you any savings today.” I told Paul to turn in the equipment up there and wait a week to get the call again for that location. Ha!
I feel I captured Paul’s frustration in my artistic photographic interpretation that I named “Annoying Salesman!” I do feel it is award worthy. We have all been there.
I was dying. Paul was very patient and I was proud of him for that.
This is what he gets for having a day off when I have to work. Ha!
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