Hospitals Suck

Nothing personal, mind you. This is a perectly nice hospital, as hospitals go, but as a species, they're awful places. With an occasional exception, all the crappy cheap motels I've ever stayed in are more pleasant places than the nicest hospitals.

For one thing, there are sick people everywhere. I know that's not a coincidence or anything, but you see people being wheeled around in beds or attached to IVs and then when you see someone in a gown just walking around you thing to yourself, "ooh, what's wrong with that one?"

I'm not sure that you ever really get used to being in a hospital, but you do learn to navigate it. I know that you can get free coffee at McDonalds. I know how to get to park in the closer parking lot when you're not really supposed to be there, and the quickest way to get here from the further parking lot.

On the other hand, how do you navigate having an aide sitting in the room while you're sleeping who listens to gospel music loud on headphones and mutters "Amen" under her breath all night?

On the other hand, you do get to see signs like "This room for pumping mothers only." And there's an Icee machine in the nourishment room on the 5th floor.