Released on my own recognizance for a few hours, I got home to collect the essentials – laptop, mp3 player, toothbrush. clothes and a bevy of cables to keep the gadgets alive. A good test of being a virtual business. Moved to a different ward, I shared a room with a steady flow of occupants and their visitors. After 5 days on hospital tucker, I was woken by the aroma of fried chicken that was being served at the bed next door. “We have some chicken left over, would you like some”? Never has KFC tasted so good. Thank you Colonel Sanders.
Month: April 2017
Day 1 at St. Joes
With only what I was wearing, had in my pockets and knapsack, I took occupancy of a bed in M ward exchanging my casual attire for a rear-opening gown and pajama style bottoms. Staff were friendly and attentive – appearing at my bedside with uncanny frequency to take my blood pressure, provide a few pills and meals. “Wow” I thought “this is good – better than being home alone”.
Emergency at St. Joes
I have only been a patient in a Hospital twice before – once to have my tonsils removed when I was 6 or 7 years old and when I sustained a really bad cut to my hand playing road hockey on Anvil Court in Richmond Hill 30 years ago. The Emergency department at St. Joes was a busy but quite place and I didn’t have to wait long before being seen.
Swollen Eye
The Doctors at the Walk-in clinic, near where I live, were the first to say that they had no idea what was causing my upper eye-lid and soft tissue surrounding the right eye to appear swollen and puffy. Their initial diagnosis was like mine, a reaction to something I had eaten or lurking in my … Read more