Being Ruby: Santorini

As you can see by this late post.. it's been another crazy week for me.. though things are slowly falling into place.. today was pure pazzo.. It took a large chunk of my day to organize some medical tests.. who would think it would be so hard!! Eventually sanity ruled and I managed to get everything booked but with a wait of a few weeks. This seems to have been my path for the last few months.. I like to call it 'running the blood test gauntlet'.

In once instance it took me two visits to the doctor and two different pathology labs just to get a simple blood test.. First I was told I didn't have to fast.. so I arrived at the doctor's surgery to be asked.. 'Did you fast?"... huh? Ok.. come back tomorrow after fasting. Next day... twelve hours of fasting later... arrive at doctor's surgery to be informed.. 'Oh we can't do that test here you need to go to the pathology lab'... huh!.. Drive to pathology lab... 'Oh the girl is at lunch can you come back in an hour?'... errrh.... car is in one hour parking zone ... drive to alternate lab.. ... "Did you fast?' .... 'YES'... 'Oh well you didn't need to'..... huh!!!!! We are now at 15 hours fasting and counting!! OH and to really increase my confidence.. the practitioner had to look up how to do the test.. and kept referring back to the notes...

On another instance... twelve hours fasting later.. arrive at pathology lab for blood test .. which will be followed by a one hour wait [still fasting] .. then another blood test .. all the while holding my 24 hour sample of you don't want to know what.. So in I walk... and the girl looks at her watch and says ... 'Oh Gee.. could you come back next week.. we are really busy'.... Is this candid camera??? does she think I am going to collect a 24 hour sample again? Does she think I am going to fast again??? Geeezzz... Suffice to say I refused to budge... .. I guess I'm a little mean without my morning coffee... Finally time to get the blood drawn and she points to the doctors request and ask ... 'do you know what sort of test this is'... HUH!!

So today was very similar.. although only involving phone calls thankfully .. many many phone calls later .. two pathology labs, two cancellation of appointments.. two new appointments for July... and a partridge in a pear tree!!!

... AND ... the desire for a 'Simple Life'...

OK... enough complaining.. this is supposed to be travel post!! Although I think you can see the humour in all this!! Meanwhile I've been thinking a lot about those bay views and the tiny glimpse of the bay I will be leaving behind. Not complaining [did enough of that above]... No.. I have decided I just need to take the views with me... and what better views than those of Santorini ...