DREADED PINK & YELLOW Slips

OK you fellow RVAers, How many of you remember the DREADED PINK SLIPS??? Yeah you remember, the ones that arrived in 1st period, you hear a "KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK" at the door and these slips appear in through the crack in the door. Then the whole class takes a big breath till the teacher reads out the name. After the name is read, you hear the WHOLE class exhale as it was not their names that were called out. I don't know which was worse the thought of having to go to the doctor or the LONG WALK UP HILL!!!  I think the walk was more intimidating then the doctor. No wonder they made you sit in the waiting area for what I felt like was FOREVER, it was so we could get our blood pressure back to normal. 

  But when we were sick, I remember Mrs. Mann always was the mama figure that would be comforting and bring you big cups of flavored koolaid, which I thought was medicine in itself. That stuff was amazing and could cure anything! Seriously it was delicious! And Mrs. Mann would bring you fresh toast from the bread that was made that day at her house. No wonder we would all want to be sick on Mrs. Mann's shift! SHE WAS AWESOME! You fellow students know the sigh of relief when you walked into the Infirmary and saw her name on the white board as "Nurse on Duty"!

The other day I was going through some boxes of things that I have kept for some reason or other. I found these and got a good laugh and I could not bear to throw them away, so I put them back in the box for memories sake. Here are the DREADED PINK SLIPS! But at least it was one of my favorite Doctors..... Dr. Byrne! I didn't mind getting this when her name was at the bottom!=)

 OK, How many of you remember the DOUBLE DREADED YELLOW SLIPS???? Yes these were the WORST!!! The DENTIST SLIPS!! Man I hated these! I still get goosebumps just thinking about getting one of these slips. The dentist slips even had a map on the back to show you were to go. Like we needed a map! All we had to do was follow the sound of drills and kids screaming.... OK Not kids screaming. I can still remember the even longer walk down to the Kijabe Hospital, walking into the hospital that smelled like sterilized floor cleaner. I can't remember the brand name but, OH MAN, I can remember that smell. Then waiting in those wonderful(cough) dentist chairs with the plastic tarp thing wrapped around your neck, and that horrible tasting tooth paste polish stuff that they put in your mouth. You know that gritty Fruit Loop flavored stuff that felt like sand in your mouth? Yeah, that stuff helped develop my gag reflex really well! YUCK!

I remember one time when they took care of some fillings on both sides so they gave me that shot that numbs your mouth..... for HOURS!! Then I had the whole walk UP the mountain to try and get feeling back into my mouth so I didn't drool all over my desk in English class. HOW EMBARRASSING!!.... Surely I am not the only RVA student that dreaded these 2 colored slips!  You know you all did it! I just can believe I kept them for memories sake. But I did, Guess I will keep them so I can tell my grand kids about it one day. And I won't have to exaggerate on the up hill climb both ways because when you live on the side of a mountain and the Infirmary was at the top of campus and the hospital was at the very bottom, you had to walk up hill going to BOTH!

Here was the DOUBLE DREADED DENTIST SLIP! hahaha what memories!!