Hospital Moment.

I started reading other bloggers blogs today and I remembered my own neglected white page. Right now I am at work, doing the front desk where the reception for the incoming patients of the ER are received. Most everyone is staring at me because they changed the televisions from playing cable tv to ridiculous so-quiet-no-one-can-hear-it advertisements for University of Toledo. They were supposed to get subtitles added, but as with everything else that would make this a better establishment, they haven't.

Every time a patient goes back before someone that had come in before, my face gets bathed in warmth as the laser eyes of everyone turns to me accusingly. I swear, I swear! my face reads, I didn't make it this way. No one likes to realize most illnesses that are actual emergencies are internal, and you can never judge a person like a book, meaning its cover. People handle pain differently, and they might groan and moan and have nothing, or be the silent, tight and thin lipped person suffering from cancer. I guess it is all relative.

Earlier I had to keep a smile on my face as someone berated the ethics of this place. They had concluded that the reason they were taking so long to be seen is because of insurance. No sir, the nurses don't even get to see that. They don't care anyway. They just want you to get taken care of and out of the emergency room and either admitted or home. Every nurse right now is fast walking in the back, one step away from running, their faces pulled taunt and their eyes looking either distressed or emphatically tired. I'm glad I'm not a nurse.

The longest someone has waited today was 3 hours and 46 minutes. That person was the most patient of all. He only asked once about himself. Think of it 1/6 of your day spent in the ER, and that being only in the waiting room. The good thing now is that the board is telling me everyone waiting to go back is here at the same level, meaning everyone will be taken back in order of time, and not by reason they are here. You just can't take someone with a sprained ankle before someone experiencing chest pains.

I'm tired, but I may go out tonight. And who knows, I might wear some new shoes. You never know. I have a new scarf too. I find it silly and funny that a reason to go out is a new outfit, or well, pieces of one. I need to fix my bike on monday, just a pedal, and see if I can get anyone to buy the other bikes I don't want. I bet I could fetch a little bit of money that could go toward a new nice nice nice bike.

Dinosaurs.

alicia: HOLY SHIT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX3QCaqLtJ8

me: field trip!

alicia: i'd probably pass out, thx

alicia: so fucking cool though

me: id ride it

me: and carry a spear

alicia: you'd be the favorite of everyone there!

me: especially when i started stabbing them and screaming

me: and when my dinosaur grabbed a child in his teeth

me: and viciously tears it into pieces.

me: GLORRRRR

alicia: i'm quivering with excitement just thinking about it!!!