Colonoscopy... Problems With the Plumbing

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I spent the better part of the morning talking with the two plumbers who came to fix the sink drains. Pretty called the landlady a few days ago and told her the sinks weren't draining well so they came to figure out the problem. They sent their snake down the drain in the kitchen and worked at that for well over an hour before deciding to look at the plumbing under the house. One guy crawled under the house and came right back out. Apparently, the sinks (bathroom as well as the kitchen sinks) all combine. The problem is that the pipes under the house run through a 10 foot by 8 foot slab of concrete 3 feet thick. (That's the floor in the laundry room.) Why someone decided to make a thick slab of concrete instead of pour a normal floor and putting a step from the kitchen floor down to that level is beyond my understanding. The plumbers can't access those pipes without taking out a chunk of concrete flooring and they have to get the landlady's permission to do that. This afternoon, Pretty had a doctor appointment. The doctor examined her and decided it's time for Pretty to have her first colonoscopy... Pretty's appointment was at 2 pm but was called into the doctor's office at almost 3:30 pm... (We don't know why it took so long.) Then we had to go to Walmart to get the supplies Pretty needed for the colonoscopy prep... By the time we got home, I was exhausted since I still hadn't taken my morning or afternoon nap. I slept for 3 hours. Her colonoscopy will be the 24th and the doctor asked that I come sit in the waiting room while they do that procedure so I can bring Pretty home afterwards. The doctor didn't want her walking home afterwards even though we're only 2 1/2 blocks from the hospital. *shrug* It sounds like a fun day for me although, I might get to tease Pretty if the pain shot and sedative makes her as loopy as it did me when I had a colonoscopy.