Alien Abduction

I feel as if I was abducted by aliens yesterday.  From my trip to the hospital, to my ride home, nothing felt like anything I had ever experienced before.  I rode my scooter over to the hospital because Wheeltrans was giving me a hard time.

There was a lot of construction on the road I took there.  There were huge piles of gravel that were almost impossible to ride over.  Part of the road was flooded.  Some of the sidewalk was missing.  I rode in the bike lane. 

At the hospital there was a long line of people, all safely spaced 2 metres apart, waiting to go in.  Once inside I was bombarded with questions, given a green sticker, some hand sanitizer and instructions to get to were I needed to go.  Unfortunately the directions were not correct.  I became lost in a mess of uninhabited corridors.

When I finally reached the right place, by accident, there were more questions and a denial of who I was and a lack of the proper papers that would allow me to have the tests done.  Everything had been arranged by my doctor.  I had been notified by phone.  I had no papers.  Happy but frustrated I was ready to go home.  The only thing that stopped me was my fear of losing my way again and maybe ending up in a Covid unit.  So  I waited for a fax from my doctor's office.

When it finally came I was directed, once again wrongly, to a black door on the left.  The door turned out to be green.  That is when I knew I had been abducted.   Everything after that was a blur.   I was made to get off my scooter and transfer to a huge camera thing that looked like it belonged in another world.  I was given an IV injection of what I figured were radio active isotopes.  Some photos were taken and I was told to get back onto my scooter.  I thought I was done, but no!

They told me to leave and return at 2:15.  That was 3 hours away!  I wanted to go home but it felt as if they had control of me.  I went outside because I was cold.  But I couldn't warm up.  I waited and waited.  Finally it was time.  I was in pain.  I had a headache.  I had trouble getting onto the slab that was the imaging machine.  My legs were lifted and re-positioned many times.  I was so cold I was shivering.  Finally I was told to get off the machine.  I was told that I needed some X-rays.    They gave me a requisition.

I returned to the intake desk.  More questions.  Had I been to Africa?  What planet am I on? I asked.  I think they thought I was crazy.  I felt crazy.  When the X-rays were done.  I hightailed it out of the hospital.  I took a different way home.

I started to feel as if I was free again.  The fields and road sides were covered in Queen Anne's Lace flowers.  I wanted to pick them, as a symbol of my freedom.  They made me smile.   I felt that I had survived my abduction.