Directions

As I enter the hospital this afternoon, I asked for the rooms of three different patients.  I proceeded to the rooms.  Two were adjacent to each other. 

The first room was empty.   The second had a stranger in it.

I proceeded to the nurse’s station.  One had been discharged, the second was still in emergency. 

I headed to emergency (this hospital is in Saskatoon so I was not familiar with the hospital — I had to ask).  There I picked up the emergency room phone.  The nurse answered that she knew where the patient was.  She directed me to look straight ahead.  When I turned slightly, she corrected me.  My guess?  There was a camera watching me.

Eventually I found the patient and chatted with him.  Then off to Intensive Care.  This patient’s mother was in the waiting room, and I was not able to visit.  But I did get some background.

So, when you head to the hospital, don’t expect you will find everything in order.  Most often you will, but then there are days!!

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