So, on the day before Ahn-Bao's palate surgery, Bob noticed that at the "Cafe Presto" restaurant across the street from Saint Marys Hospital, they had a breakfast special for $3.99. Bob had a theory that while Ahn-Bao was in surgery, when we were just waiting, that we could just go across the street and have breakfast.
When he posed this plan to Sherry, she offered that he was welcome to go have breakfast, but that it seemed inappropriate not to be waiting very close by in case his parents were needed. Bob's retort was something to the effect of, "what, are the surgeon or the anesthesiologist going to come running out of the operating room demanding that his parents come in and sew something up?" After 22+ years of marriage, Sherry's response was to merely ignore his protests.
When Bob later posed his suggestion to test its appropriateness on Aunt Cindy, and Abby and even Yasmin, they of course all sided with Sherry's appropriate level of parental attentiveness and suggested that the parents should stay nearby in case they were needed.
After Sherry had attended Ahn-Bao back to the operating room and had stood by while he closed his eyes, the nurse, Mary in the Pre-op area suggested, without prompting (although, Bob was alone with her for a short amount of time) that we should take this opportunity while the surgery was going on, to get some breakfast. Her rational theory was that when he came out of surgery, he would need us at full speed and well-nourished as we may not have much opportunity to eat again for awhile.
This of course prompted quite a reaction from Bob.
I had the $3.99 special with bacon and toast and Bob had ham and an english muffin. We were back to the waiting area in plenty of time to wait for another 2 hours.
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