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My mother had AFib and had to have her blood checked weekly. She had an appointment for another issue at a hospital downtown and we decided she could get her blood drawn after that appointment. So we went down to the lab and they didn't have the order for blood-drawing in their computer and they couldn't reach the doctor because it was 4:30 and it took a good 40 minutes for them to straighten it out, with my mother bitching to anyone who would listen and even those who wouldn't. In a room full of sick people! When they finally came to get her, I could hear her bitching all the way down the hallway to the blood-drawing room.

My mother was not a go-with-the-flow type person. Ordinarily, she had a great sense of humor, but not that day.