Shelby sees a Shrink

I picked up Shelby at 7:30am, got her to the clinic by 8am when it opened.  Two hours later they finally called her name.  After being in the back for half an hour she comes out and says we have to come back at 3:30pm.  What?  Why?  Well she was just the intake manager, she did my insurance paperwork and they can't see me this morning so we have to come back to the after hours clinic at 3:30pm.

Okay, it is now 10:30am and I have to kill 5 hours.  So we go get a bus pass, go to the thrift store, and the dollar store.  She also wants to go home and change.  She puts on a bathing suit that has a skirt on it.  The suit was a little low cut so she puts a tank top underneath.  Then she puts on denim capri pants, leaving the skirt of the bathing suit hanging over the top.  It reminded me of something a child would pick out and put on if left to dress alone.  They she put her hair in a side ponytail, put on a sun visor and flip flops.  Okay, now only 4.5 hours to kill...so I decided to get a mani pedi for us.

Shelby has never had a pedicure and was so nervous about it.  I reassured her it would be very relaxing.  She loved the massage chair!  She reclined it back and sank into the massage.  The baby loved it too, she started doing somersaults in Shelby's belly.  The lady doing her nails asked Shelby about her summer and they chatted.  Shelby announced to the entire salon that she was ready for father's day, even though her daddy was in prison.  She had bought him a bulldog tattoo (because he loves dogs but can't have a pet in prison) and a pinky ring.  The girl doing Shelby's nails said that was nice and moved on, but the other ladies getting pedicures just gave me a strange look and rolled their eyes at her.  It made me mad.

After our salon adventure we went to eat.  Shelby ate everything on her plate, 2 rolls, and finished what was left on my plate too!  We headed back to the clinic after lunch.

When we got back it was only 2:15pm, but they wouldn't let us sign in until 3:30pm...so we waited.  Meryl came over and visited for a little while.  Shelby finally was able to sign in at 3:30 sharp, and was 4th in line!  Now the receptionist tells us that they only sign people at 3:30 but the actual doctors don't start seeing people until 5pm!  Shelby fell asleep in the waiting room chair.  At 6:15pm they called her back.  The doctor refused to give her any meds until she had been seen and cleared by an OB/GYN and then lectured her and me because she is smoking cigars.  (like I can control that)

I dropped her off at an AA meeting at 7:30pm.  So 12 hours after I picked her up and nothing was accomplished.  We waited literally all day to be lectured and told he couldn't give her meds right now!  Sigh!