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. The attending Physician could not identify the cause of the swelling and sent me to have a CT scan. When it came back, the Emergency team could see the edema (swelling of the tissues with a fluid emission) though which specialist to refer me to next wasn’t obvious. Later in the evening (around 10:00 pm) a senior Emergency Doctor suggested that I be admitted to St. Joes so that they could keep an eye on me and be seen by a dermatologist in the morning. At 2:00 am Thursday 6th April a bed was found and my journey of discovery began,