Are you getting bored yet?
Tedium has taken over from terror, which is maybe a good thing. I’m checking into hospital again today, feeling sad about the week to come because I am surely not about to get another perfect roommate like I did the other day. I also had a nice room. Ah well, for the next couple of days I will be too out of it to notice (much). And then it’ll be the weekend, which has a different rhythm than weekdays … and they try to discharge as many patients as possible before the weekend so I might end up having the room to myself.
It also feels different checking in on a Wednesday, unlike the last two times when I checked in on a Sunday. In some ways it’s better because I always find Sundays a bit depressing somehow. But today is ‘just another day’, you know? And I’ll be going to the hospital with Pipocas this time, so that Nog doesn’t have to cancel his afternoon/evening classes. He’d already cancelled all of his Monday classes (for nuthin) and now has had to cancel tomorrow’s, which is very bad for him financially. Anyhow, he’ll come to the hospital when he’s finished and, as usual, spend the first night with me.
I’m pretty much still packed from the other day, so there’s not much left to do. *sigh*
casa azahar 
Ah honey, I agree that Wednesday is a much better day to do anything than a Sunday. Sundays always feel a bit like ‘limbo’ to me, so I take this as a good sign 🙂
*hugs*
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Thinking about you. I guess it is tomorrow over there already. No wonder I’m always confused. Between you and Nurse Myra I never know what day it is unless I look at the calendar on my computer.
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Sending hugs to you, az.
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Thinking of you. *hug*
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best wishes for a good outcome 🙂
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Hope all goes well!
And that it actually goes this time.
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Best wishes from here too :hug:
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Good Karma vibes being sent from up North!
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“Wednesday is a much better day to do anything than a Sunday”
It really is, truce. I’ve been on the BIKE already and am going out for a walk soon. Going to meet Nog at the supermarket because he’ll need bread & milk over the weekend. Last Sunday I just stayed home crying…
You and nursemyra are about the same amount of time difference from me, Silverstar, but you’re behind and she’s ahead. Yes, it does get confusing sometimes.
Thanks for all the good vibes, guys! 🙂
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See it the good way, most of the packing is already done and you had a couple of more nights at home in your own bed.
Good luck with roommate and everything.
*hugs*
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hping all goes well from this side of the pond. sending u love and positivity, too. i’m just wondering if i should wish u a good roomate or non at all. would u want complete privacy or someone to pass the time with? i’ll beckon the genie with whatever u prefer.
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Maybe it is a good thing that it has become sort of routine to go over to the Hospital and check in. It has taken “some” of the stress out of the experience, and less stress is always a good thing.
Don’t assume that you can’t have another perfect roommate. There are probably more of those sorts of people out there than we think. anyway, in addition to visualizing a positive outcome for this surgery I am now visualizing another perfect roomie or a room to yourself.
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I second, (third? fourth?), the ‘perfect roommate’ thing.
Since you tend to bring out the best in people, I bet your roomie will be most companionable!
Sending you warm thoughts from the GWN
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Well, I’m in! Got my hospital gown on and the laptop set up. Just went through the Spanish Inquisition for the second time – I don’t know why they couldn’t just look at the questionaire they did on Sunday.
Pipocas had to get home to the Kidlet, and Nog will be here in a couple of hours after he finishes work, but I have plenty of scrabble games to keep me busy.
My roommate is a teenager (maybe 18?) who has just had an appendix op. No TV (so far) but there is a continuous turnover of visitors, usually 4-6 at a time. I suspect this will slow down as the evening progresses. The hospital rule is only 2 guests at a time, but this is Spain! Anyhow, I’d rather listen to people talking than have the TV blaring.
DKL, I would love a room to myself, but that’s unlikely to happen. I checked my old room (I’m next door to it, in fact I’m in the same room I was in for the op in September) and María was gone.
Having an internet connection makes all the difference. I’d feel lost without it.
Okay, back to scrabble…
*waves to Tal* Hey, nice of you to drop in! 🙂
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As I sit here in my office with the walls vibrating from the helicopter taking off above me, I think that there are worse things than bad roomates. 🙂
I’m with Tal, you are bound to get a good roomie and if not, you have the linguistic ability to tell them to shut the fuck up and turn down the godamn TV 😀
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This girl is obviously from a pueblo, judging by the accent and the fact that there are – I kid you not – EIGHT family members in the room with her right now. The father is drinking a beer that his wife had in her purse. I hope they go home soon.
They just gave me dinner, which was odd because I was only given juice on Sunday evening. It was actually a rather nice piece of poached fish, with grilled artichokes. I ate about half and then used the bread roll to make a fish & artichoke butty for Nog when he gets here (though he will also have sandwiches from home that I made earlier).
I’m across from the nurse’s station and I heard a guy asking if there was internet here. When he was told there wasn’t he pointed at me and the nurse said I must have brought my own. I hope it doesn’t turn out to be ‘prohibited’… nobody has said anything so far.
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“I don’t know why they couldn’t just look at the questionaire they did on Sunday. ”
Given the propensity for staff to mess up your name and hospital number within the same visit (me) and to forget to tell you that your surgery was postponed (you), I would rather they repeat the procedure each time…. Much less likely for you to come home having had a brain-ectomy rather than the surgery you went in for.
“It was actually a rather nice piece of poached fish, with grilled artichokes.”
Holy CRAP! You are lucky to get a hunk of over-cooked meatloaf and frozen peas, here….
Re: The internet. Quite probably it is just that they don’t provide a hook-up for it. It used to be that you weren’t allowed to use your cellphone. Now that they have done studies which show that cellphones do not have any effect on machines, they seem to have done away with the ban on cellphones.
Of course, if you ever watched and medical shows, doctors were always yapping away on cellphones to their girlfriends… whoever… all the time. Someone forgot to tell their “experts” that phones were banned in hospitals.
Of course, they discovered recently that those ugly shoes “Crocs” CAN create a static hazard that can damage hospital machines but you still see 99% the medical staff wandering around in them.
I think they should be banned because they are simply bug-ugly.
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“I think they should be banned because they are simply bug-ugly.”
I agrees … heh heh …
This Is How Stupid U Look
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I’ve never understood the attraction to wearing big, loud, rubber shoes shoes… the “Jibbitz” charms you attach aren’t half bad but the shoes are Gawdawful!
Now, they have even uglier “shoes” and boots… I’m sorry, if I wanted to LOOK like I bought my shoes at the dollar store, I wouldn’t be wanting to pay $160!!! Get the silver “Mykonos” ones! “Yes… I DO want to look live a cheap hooker but at premium price!”
http://blog.alltheshoes.co.uk/2008/04/08/you-by-crocs-collections/
Check out the “Fall collection” in the link to prices….
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Hi honey – just checking in after some mental days feeding 400 people- yes really, of me oh my thank god that’s over. I have all digits firmly entwined that all goes to plan and you are not booted out again with job undone.
Guess what – am probably going back to Rocinantes (now Quartier Vert of course) to try and bring it back to life! Wish you were with me.
More soon- big love on ya. xxxxxxx
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Re: answering the questions again – Anneke is probably right but my take is that they haven’t filed them yet and no one knows where the information actually is at the moment. MUCH easier on *staff* to just ask again. Ahem.
Good luck! Also, I hope your room count thins out some.
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Sending good wishes for peaceful rooms and swift healing
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Good luck, I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
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Wow Lizzie, I’d love to be reviving the old Rocinantes with you! Imagine how fabulous we could make it. My friend María Paz was talking to me about helping her revamp a restaurant she has here … maybe this could be the start of a small chain of places in the UK and Spain? I think we should pool our resources … email later …
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Oh, and the kid is going home today. Probably before I go in for the op. Let’s see if this turns out to be good news or bad news for me. The TV came on after most of the family left (the mother stayed the night) though I did manage to get them to turn the volume way down. Meanwhile, the mother talks NON-STOP and has a particularly grating accent and voice. I wonder what “azar” will bring next…
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Okay, it’s about half an hour till Show Time, so I’m shutting the laptop down and will try to just sit and relax here with Nog. Thank goodness la Familia Cateto has left …
Back soon – I hope! *hugs*
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Hugs and wishes.
(Has your spam filter been eating my postings again? I could have sworn I’d already commented on this post.)
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The name’s TRiG.
Life’s pretty bad when you can’t spell your own name.
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