Sunday, July 3, 2011

Carts and Cranberry Juice

They sure do push a lot of carts around here.  I hear at least ten carts per hour in the hallway.  What the heck is in all those carts?  I mean, there is the dining cart, but that comes around only a few times a day.  The others I can think of are housekeeping, laundry, bio-waste, sharps, medical equipment, maybe like inventory restock.  But those are just a few, there's no way they constitute ten per hour.  It makes me think that Sarah Jessica Parker sent me and Rhys a robot to escape in, but the robot got lost or distracted. 

I really, really want to know what is in the carts, but I can't figure out a way that won't make me seem creepy and weird to the staff.  I could ask, I'm sure they would tell me, but that's weird.  Or, I could open the door a bit to check it out, but that would be creepy.  There are blinds on the window that goes to the hall, but I don't want to peer through a crack in the blinds every 5 minutes, because that won't seem creepy or weird, it would just make me seem downright abnormal and they might call the doctor thinking that I have progressed into the advanced stages of Lyme infection, which can make a person sort of loony.

Janine just came in and said that we were too easy to take care of.  Really?  I feel weird enough about having people at my beck and call 24 hours a day to do anything I ask them to, I don't need a complex about it.  I've hit the call button many times by accident.  I would be so annoyed at me if I were Janine.  Which is why I would never be a good nurse, and why they are amazing nurses. They really want to help us any way they can. 

The only thing I really do depend on them for is middle-of-the-night cranberry juice with ice.  They only have styrofoam cups here.  I hate everything about styrofoam, but it is becoming oddly comforting to me.  For instance, if I wake up at 3:20am (or rather, when Rhys wakes up at 3:20am), and have to nurse and inevitably hangout for an hour or so afterward watching TCM and trying to get Rhys back to sleep, cranberry juice with ice in a styrofoam cup brought by a nurse is an absolute must have.  More so than morning coffee. 

And now please excuse me while I snuggle my baby and drool over Legolas.  Don't forget: check yourself and your loved ones for ticks. 

1 comment:

  1. Carly, hopefully this month will fly by and you and Rhys can celebrate your Mom's birthday at the lake. Keep thinking happy thoughts as you always do. I would send you a non-styrofoam cup but then someone would have to wash it and it would probably involve another cart, so I won't.

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