Non-Medical Hospital Update

The Icee machine is fixed after suffering a painful-sounding seizure a couple of days ago. Even better, whoever fixed it also brought big Icee cups with those cool dome lids. My tongue is now bright orange.

The TV in the MPFL generally has FOX on during the day, and from 2 PM until now it has had one of those pseudo courtroom shows on. It's Judge Judy now, but there was an older African-American judge on from 2-3 and a younger Caucasian judge from 3-4. Judge Judy is, predictably, a woman. The plaintiffs are indistinguishable.

Since we've been here we've been following something they've called a "protocol." At one point when I was complaining about the lack of flexibility in the protocol (as far as the patient is concerned, of course, the hospital itself has total flexibility) the representative they sent to talk to me said, "Well, it's not so much a protocol as guidelines." I'm presuming most of you have seen Pirates of the Caribbean and I can assure you it took tremendous effort for me to not burst out laughing.

So we have an accord.