Waiting for the surgeons, Second Tuesday AM.

Of course, it makes it much easier to contemplate another week or so in this same ICU room knowing this is here.

According to my physician sister-in law, they call this a pantry, but it isn't really a pantry- none of the cabinets contain anything. There's a refrigerator for patient food, but that all has to be labeled and bar coded and dated.

The waiting room is strangely deserted this morning, but the people who've been living in the corner left the empty chairs and their pillows and bags of things arranged such that it's clear that nobody better mess with their stuff.

The TV is on in the room and the remote is buried in the bed somewhere, so I can't completely ignore what happened in Iowa yesterday. The TV news people were talking about how the big thing among Republicans has been homegrown Islamic terrorists. I understand their concern. Those terrorists have killed far more people than, say, right wing terrorists. Oh wait, that's completely, 100% false. 

Anyway, I know there's no room for subtlety, much less actual thought, in this. but this whole portraying the enemy as the personification of evil is just plain stupid. To defeat an enemy, you need to know what they want (and 'destroy our freedoms' is not an actual thing). You don't need to give them what they want, but you'll better understand what they're trying to do. Insight is not a bad thing.

I'm hanging in. Going out for at least two long walks and maybe a subway ride today. Have no desire to get in a car.