Date night - well, sorta

Lauri and I had a special 'date night' last night - we spent it at Kaiser Hospital. I mentioned something about not getting out all day and the next thing you know we are down in the emergency room waiting around for test results to be reviewed. I will let Lauri explain in more detail what happened but I will say that all of her results came back negative (that's a good thing, George) and Lauri is fine.

It doesn't seem to matter how many time saving gizmos and procedures and new technology that they get down at the average emergency room - it always takes 4 hours once you are there. The doctor who sent Lauri even gave her a secret "code word" to get into the ER faster (TIA) but all that seemed to do was get her into a bed to begin waiting sooner. I finished reading a book, exhausted the battery on my IPod Touch, and had to break into my emergency medication stash I keep in my car just for these types of occasions to get through the evening! We didn't notice the television in the room until after midnight - missed the Simpsons - because the tv looked like just another medical device!

There are a lot of sick people in a hospital on a Friday night. The best one last night was some guy who was riding a motorcycle off-road somewhere when he rounded a blind corner only to run into a low hanging branch. Ran into it with his nose. His nose lost that battle. The nose was still on his face, it just wasn't in the same place where it was before. There were a lot of hand cleaner bottles around and a lot of posters about swine flu on the walls.