i’m in the waiting area for the ER right now. i’m on an unlocked wireless network called “docuse.” i feel confident that it was left unlock for people like me. not quite family enough to get into the ICU, not quite lacking in interest enough to stay at home.

we’ve been here for about four hours. the first half hour or so was before the ambulance had even arrived. the triage nurses kept looking at us and shaking their heads in sadness after the ambulance arrived. i’m imagining that is not the greatest sign. then again, the appearance of an older woman complete bald from chemo and on a hospital stretcher can easily invoke the pity of even the hardest of the hardened ER triage nurses. i think.

i was planning to do laundry today. we were going to visit some open houses and talk property purchasing power. laundry was to be done, and some easter visiting. this is a kind of visiting, i guess. where i mostly just sit and watch people come and go from the hospital in varying degrees of pain and illness. drink coffee from the cafe i the lobby, buy a muffin now and then to sustain the 3 of us. it’s not really what i would have hoped for… and then, when i was laying in bed this morning, planning my day somehow i knew that this is how i would be spending it. i hope everything turns out ok. i know it will, it just might be a slightly different outcome than we were hoping for.

they really could use a color palette makeover in here. i can’t imagine anyone finding the institutional green and blue very soothing. i’m concerned about the feng shui. it’s quiet today too. i’m the only one sitting in a fairly large waiting room. i can’t imagine that it’s always so empty that the colors would be even noticeable to anyone waiting. the wireless is a nice touch though.

This entry was posted on Sunday, March 23rd, 2008 at 12:54 pm and is filed under daily post.