Thoughts in the ER Waiting Room
1) Lady, do not let your sneezing, snot dripping child with "really high, over 102" fever run around the waiting room grabbing things. First, you may not be familiar with the germ theory of disease, but that's a prevention no-no. Second, what kind of demon spawn runs around giggling and jumping with a 102 fever??
2) I am really glad that nobody is gushing blood. I am really not glad about the number of proximate ER patients wearing surgical masks.
3) Listening to someone being told that "uncontrollable multiple day diarrhea and vomiting are not serious symptoms" is surreal.
4) There is a patient in a wheelchair refusing to be admitted until they are allowed to fax something to a branch of their office.
5) A nurse took me to another waiting room with no lights on "because you'll be less likely to be exposed." (To what? Demon child? Why would you say that and not specify?) I ask where the light switch is and the he tells me to "check the walls, you'll find it eventually."
6) Whenever I come to the hospital, I find myself making complex resolutions to exercise more, drink less, and quit eating fries. Where do you think the most unfulfilled resolutions get made: the ER or bars on New Year's? Subquestion: in which category do you put resolutions made in the emergency room AFTER bars on New Year's?
7) I am going to exercise more, drink less, and stop eating fries.
8) Holy crap, sudden tinny 50s orchestra music on a shitty radio. Is this the part where the zombies come? I hope not--- the only blunt object in this room is a plaster sculpture of a manatee.
2) I am really glad that nobody is gushing blood. I am really not glad about the number of proximate ER patients wearing surgical masks.
3) Listening to someone being told that "uncontrollable multiple day diarrhea and vomiting are not serious symptoms" is surreal.
4) There is a patient in a wheelchair refusing to be admitted until they are allowed to fax something to a branch of their office.
5) A nurse took me to another waiting room with no lights on "because you'll be less likely to be exposed." (To what? Demon child? Why would you say that and not specify?) I ask where the light switch is and the he tells me to "check the walls, you'll find it eventually."
6) Whenever I come to the hospital, I find myself making complex resolutions to exercise more, drink less, and quit eating fries. Where do you think the most unfulfilled resolutions get made: the ER or bars on New Year's? Subquestion: in which category do you put resolutions made in the emergency room AFTER bars on New Year's?
7) I am going to exercise more, drink less, and stop eating fries.
8) Holy crap, sudden tinny 50s orchestra music on a shitty radio. Is this the part where the zombies come? I hope not--- the only blunt object in this room is a plaster sculpture of a manatee.