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Skriven 2015-08-10 10:50:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: hospitals 58
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 08-08-15  07:19 <=-

 ML>> forgotten to bring my own, and the hospital claimed it
 ML>> provided them. After two days of asking, I merely wadded
 ML>> up a piece of Kleenex for each ear.
 NB>> I suppose that works... ;)  Dunno if Mommy's ever used earplugs...
 NB>> or even if she'd consider them... :)
 ML> Glen has been removed to the ward, where in his quad room
 ML> even with an empty bed there can be quite a bit of noise -
 ML> the guy next jabbers on in Italian both alone and to his
 ML> buddies when they visit and on the telephone; the guy across
 ML> likes to listen to the ABC news at top volume. I asked Glen
 ML> how he could stand it, and he looked up at me placidly and
 ML> said, you notice I don't have my hearing aids in.

That works... there IS some benefit to aging... (G)

 ML> The latter guy had someone come visit and recount funny
 ML> stories about his time in the service, see below - the visitor
 ML> is about 70, and from other snippets of conversation it
 ML> appears that he is the patient's son, which makes the guy
 ML> in bed, well, quite elderly.

90-ish, probably...  

 ML> When I first visited Monday night or Tuesday morning, the
 ML> doors to the department were open; since, they have been
 ML> locked with a passcode for exiting - one particularly
 ML> troublesome patient has been caught several times trying
 ML> to escape. He's been deemed incapable of remembering the
 ML> code, which is 9 1 1 E. There is another one who is said
 ML> to wander up and down the corridor jabbering in some
 ML> unknown language, and yet another who would appear at
 ML> Glen's bedside claiming that he'd rung him up and told
 ML> him to come over. What fun hospitals are.

Indeed.  Such fun.  Especially on geriatric wards.
 
 ML>>> As you know, fashion is everything to me. Not.
 NB>>> Quite.  But the frames pusher assumes the opposite... that everyone
 NB>>> wants to be super fashionable...  ;)  We push back... (G)
 ML>> The frames pusher saw me in my frayed, not-too-perfectly
 ML>> fitting flannels.
 NB>> And either ignored that clue, or considered you super-chic...
 ML> Never figured that out, but once in a while I get so
 ML> unfashionable I'm fashionable.

Tis the nature of fashion... those of us that ignore it don't notice
when it comes back to join us... ;)

 ML> Punishment
 ML> categories: punishment, booze
 ML> servings: 1
 ML> Guinness
 ML> Thunderbird wine
 ML> Combine and force the victim to drink. It is said that
 ML> this combination is impossible to stomach and induces
 ML> vomiting as well as the finest ipecac.

There's always gotta be somebody that thinks that's perfectly potable... 
although they do say that mixing beer and wine is a sure way to get
sick... 

 ML> When Glen was moved to the ward, a visitor to one of
 ML> the other beds was recounting stories of his Vietnam
 ML> years in the Australian army.
 ML> Apparently, there is a peer-administrated Kangaroo Court
 ML> that deals with minor offenses as of etiquette and
 ML> decorum, and after a quick and unfair trial the accused
 ML> is (always) convicted and sentenced to a modest but
 ML> unpleasant punishment involving the consumption of the
 ML> most vile imaginable combination of otherwise potable
 ML> liquids. This combination is apparently a time-honored
 ML> recipe designed to cause maximum discomfiture to the
 ML> convicted and maximum mirth to the bystanders.

Sounds to me a lot like teen and twenties boys...  ;0

ttyl        neb

... I stayed up all night to see where the sun went. Then it dawned on me.

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