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More - What Were They Thinking ?

Thank you for all the emails and calls thanking me for not calling you at 3:00 AM Tuesday morning. The whole hospital thing was different this time. There were a couple of things that made it different.

The Eighteen Thing
Cara is of course 18 now so the various staff people had to talk to both her and me. Me because it's my insurance policy that's gonna pay for the whole thing and Cara because she is 18. Their heads snapped back and forth more then a few times.

The HIPA Thing
I'm not sure what HIPA stands for but I had to fill out (and sign) this form that gave the hospital permission to release information to anyone whose name I put on the form. All I can say is if Dick Cheney happened to hear about Cara's situation and happened to call St Josephs Hospital he would have been fully briefed. I would have put Captain Kirk on there to just in case those time travel episodes were true but Libby was getting mad and wouldn't let me and I guess the nurse was getting a little irritated at all the fun I was having at the forms expense. God bless beauracracy.

Finally we're hanging out in the lounge on floor and since I've been up all night I'm stretched out as comfortably as I can be trying to snooze a little when in walks a nurse who informs us that we have to leave because they have a meeting in the lounge. No problem. We get up and wander out to the main lobby. A little later walking back toward the wing I notice that inside a door that is immediately adjacent to the lounge is a spacious conference room. Tables, flip charts, black boards etc... It's empty. PROBLEM I couldn't resist......



..... taking a few pictures. Picture 1 is the meeting. Picture 2 is Libby and Kailyn pretending to be sleeping on the tables in the empty conference room. This next picture is a note I wrote in the blackboard.



It was still there when I walked out with Cara on Thursday.

ba

posted by balaams_ass @ 8:33 AM