I’m in the hospital for tests, so I’m not ill enough to be in bed all the time. After a few hours in my semi-private room, I feel the walls closing in. I walk around the cardiac floor. One nurse said to me, if the hospital had carpets, I’d be wearing a hole in them.
I [...]
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Hospital 2
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The Hospital
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I’m in the hospital again. On the cardiac floor. I’m outside by the elevators talking to my brother on a cell phone. I tell him – ‘the cardiac floor is the noisest floor in any hospital.’
He says: ‘You’d think it’d be the quietest.’
‘No. There’s always all kinds of noise. Dropping things, etc.’
‘Wonder why that is?’
‘Maybe [...]
