Not One Thing (Almost)

It would be a slight exaggeration to say that not one thing went according to plan today.

My plan was pretty simple. After a noon dentist appointment, I was going to grab a quick lunch, then go into Staples to look at office chairs, and finally pick up a few groceries before going home. 

The first off-plan event was that Mom did something to her back on Friday and was in enough pain this morning to be willing to go to the hospital, so I got her things together and called the ambulance. 

I did go to the dentist, so technically that went to plan, but my idea was to have a simple cleaning, and instead they told me I needed a deep cleaning due to my gums. That requires numbing, and needs to be done in two parts (so that you only leave feeling like you're drooling on one side of your face, I guess). It's also not cheap, but the unpleasantness of having it done was far worse.

Mom called while I was waiting for them to start, to say that they were sending her home and to come get her when I could, so instead of getting lunch (which I couldn't have gotten then anyway, given that I couldn't eat with half my face numb), I drove to get her. Poor thing, she was still in so much pain: the ER said that it wasn't a skeletal problem, but muscle, and beyond giving her prescriptions, there was nothing more they could do. 

We drove home, stopping to drop off the prescriptions to be filled, and I got her into bed. I had a quick "lunch" (at 3:30 in the afternoon, that seems like the wrong word), and then went to the store for the drugs and those few groceries I had on my list. Item number one, bananas!

I can't ever remember going to the grocery store and seeing zero bananas on the shelf. I'll try another store tomorrow, but is this a tariffs thing, am I going to need to get used to smoothies without them?

And already, the word bananas is starting to look weird. Bananas bananas bananas. This day has thrown me for a loop.