Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Life's Unexpected Turn, Part Four

At our local hospital, I was put in a semi-private room, next to an elderly lady with Alzheimer's Disease, who made what I thought were loud moaning noises. I was afraid she was in pain, but the nurse assured me she was only chanting.

When the heart doctor on staff visited me, he decided that I wouldn't get any rest that night with all that moaning going on, and he ordered the nurse to move the poor lady to another room. It was accomplished, and another, middle-aged lady was moved in. She kept to herself, quietly.

I napped on and off, but as anyone knows who has ever been to a hospital, there is not much rest to be had with nurses running in and out taking vitals, and drawing blood, etc.

It was a long night.

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