I had major surgery(neck dissection and reconstruction due to cancer) in mid-May and a several week(15 days) hospital stay afterwards.
On paperwork I filled out prior to the surgery, it asked what was my "preferred name".
My name is Nicholas and I usually write "Nick" as my preferred name.
This time, I decided to have some fun and wrote "McLovin" from the movie “Superbad” instead. My ID bracelet and all hospital records had “McLovin” on them.
Even correspondence from the hospital used “McLovin” as my first name”!
The staff loved it and apparently news of the name spread like wildfire through MUSC system where I was staying.
A nurse posted a blown-up copy of the fake ID from the movie on the door of my room.
All of the doctors and residents called me “Mr. Prince.”
The rest of the hospital staff took great pleasure in calling me “McLovin”!
And I really enjoyed the way some would come in say ”hello, Mr. McLovin”.
So, for two weeks, I was the most talked about patient throughout the hospital there! When I went back for six weeks of radiation treatments and chemotherapy in August, and I changed my preferred name back to "McLovin".
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You had neck surgery and your name is Nicholas? You missed the opportunity of a life time there bud...
You should have wrote Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington, or you know, Nearly Headless Nick.
Side note to this: Had a esophageal dilation procedure in December.
A farm volunteer, who came with me to drive me home.
As we were leaving the hospital after my procedure, I showed her my surgery ID bracelet with the "McLovin" name.
Then she reached into her pocket and handed a novelty "McLovin" driver's license to me.
I loved it!
She had the opportunity the evening prior to wander around old Charleston(a lovely area, full of history and flowers of some type blooming year round).
She was checking out a shop and purchased some souvenirs to remember her time in Charleston. As she was paying, saw the novelty license for sale at the register and snagged on for me.
Looking forward to the day that I get pulled over leaving the hospital, so I can whip out the McLovin DL "by mistake" and hand it to a cop.
Bet I get a good laugh and no ticket!
Fingers crossed. lol
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