View from the waiting room

It's not the best way to spend the afternoon.  Doc wanted someone to have some tests done,  "Nothing to it..."  Well, except it is done in the hospital as an outpatient, and you have to lay still on your back for 6 hours afterwards.  Oh, and the test won't start until 3 in the afternoon.  And you can't drive for 24 hours so you'll need a ride.

Yes, we'd be glad to take you and wait and bring you home.

No, no tonal inflection implied in my response.  It really isn't a problem if we have time and someone needs us.  But most people don't say "HEY! We've got a free afternoon, let's go set in a hospital waiting room.

Union Hospital has changed a lot the last few years. Hope they don't mind, here is a map of the facility now:

The main entrance is now what used to be 7th Street.  But a lot of patients and services still use the old 8th Avenue entrance. And cardiac rehab uses the Beech Street entrance. The Emergency Entrance is now at 7th Street and 8th Avenue.

It is kind of interesting watching people go by.  You see a large variety of people in various mental and emotional states.  And if you set there long enough you will see someone you know go by.  But the chairs don't set any better than they did 20 years ago ... or 30.  But you can bring your laptop and get wireless internet service. Or your iPod I suppose.

Anyway, gotta go.  Later Y'all