This is just too funny (to me) to pass up recording here so I won't forget it!
So, Wed. night Dave lost his keys. They disappeared while he was operating. This in an of itself is kind of strange since he keeps them in the OR with him and it is not like there is a lot of foot traffic in the OR. So, either somebody who was there with him took them, or they got accidentaly thrown away in the OR clean up. Either scenario is somewhat mind boggling and unlikely. But something happened since his keys were not there when he finished his case.
The case finished around 9pm and Dave spent the next couple of hours looking for his keys and calling around to the different lost and found locations trying to find them. At around midnight Dave called Dan (my brother who lives with us) to come down to the hospital and bring him a spare set of keys. This is one of those situations where it is SUPER handy having an extra adult in the house, and a night owl at that. I would have probably told Dave to find a call room to sleep in if he tried to get me to come down to the hospital at midnight! Anyway, the spare key to Daves car has been MIA for a few months now so as it turned out there really wasn't an extra set of keys and Dave was stuck. So, Dan went and picked up
Dave and brought him home to bed. (although he didn't sleep very well wondering what happened to his keys and worrying about the safety of his car. I was worried too!)
At 6am Dave woke up as he should have been leaving for work and texted a few individuals who would need to know he wouldn't be in to work right away.
Then he started trying to figure out how he would get himself a new key and wondered how long it would take to get one. ... he was waiting for the MAZDA dealership to open at 7am.
Then Dave's attending called.
Apparently this attending had borrowed Dave's keys while he was operating and then forgot to return them!!!! Dave was happy to know these keys were safe and sound! This attending felt TERRIBLE about the run around he put Dave through the night before and offerend to come pick Dave up (but would have missed a case to do so, so it wasn't really an option)! Anyway, Dave ended up asking Dan to drive him back to the hospital b/c I wasn't availible to take him 'til after chorus and he didn't want to wait that long.
5 comments:
Wow, that is crazy the attending took his keys... without telling him even?
I love the Dave stories!
Poor Dave. I was hoping the story was going to be about how the keys ended up inside a patient's stomach or something.
Really handy to have Dan around, huh?
This reminds me of the time Dave thought some one stole his keys, but it turned out he forgot to unplug his flash drive key chain from a hospital computer.
That is too funny though I feel really bad for Dave as I know how precious sleep it for our men. And what could an attending possibly need to borrow his keys for anyways?! Glad you didn't have to worry about getting a new one as it might have had to be Dave's Christmas present. :)
crazy!
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