January 2011
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Le Hospital. (A Serial.) -Episode 7 -THE FINAL...
Thursday: The night before I was told that my surgery was going to be at 4PM. So I was going to be fasting for 14 hours. I wake up, and I hear strange news. I am told that my surgery will be at 10AM. I’m ecstatic.
On the way to the OR my transport nurse is a man named Jim. The way he talks about working at the hospital is when you go to a shelter to hear stories of what the war was like....
Le Hospital. (A Serial.) -Episode 6
Wednesday: This is day is a wash. I’m burnt out, tired, going stir crazy stuck in one room. I start to sing out loud, a lot. My favorites were Temptations songs: “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg”, “Since I Lost My Baby”, “I Want a Love I Can See.” I get more reading done, my computer is my hands so I can start writing this series and play lots and lots of...
Le Hospital. (A Serial.) -Episode 5
Tuesday: Its early, I recently woke up, I’m scouring the Huffington Post and finishing up the burnt coffee I was given by food services here. An uncomfortable man with neatly parted hair and a round face comes in to my room with a yellow gown and plastic gloves. He does the usual once-over, check my heart, lungs asks me all those stupid questions about my bowel movements, tells me to have a...
Le Hospital. (A Serial.) -Episode 4
Monday: Kick off a brand new day with three visits. My resident doctor a timid man who really felt absolutely horrible about what was going on, so much so that he tried to high-five me and then gave up half way through and awkwardly shook my hand. It was cute. Then there was Kevin and Jen my Podiatrists. They are awesome, and feel equally as terrible about my situation partly because they are only...
Le Hospital. (A Serial.) -Episode 3
Sunday: Big day for New England sports fans. The New England Patriots will confidently stroll into their home field, with their football Jesus: Tom Brady and try to re-create their 45-3 win over their biggest rivals the New York Jets. The buzz on my floor is loud, partly because the pacemakers, ekgs, respirators, feeding tubes and blood pressure machines all have that low hum to it, but also...
Le Hospital. (A Serial.) -Episode 2
Saturday: Pilot episodes always suck, there is too much exposition and introductions. It’s like when you show up early to a party and the first hour sucks: you’ve covered the school/work/hometown/small facts of what you were told conversations, awkward yet unavoidable. This is more of a set-up, with quips and descriptions of my surroundings. Then just like LOST or any other serial...
Le Hospital. (A Serial.)
You ever get new shoes, and then get a blister on your foot somewhere because of them? Yeah, we all do.
Monday: I had one that was really sore on my heel where the top of my new work shoes meets my skin. I had a callus there from wearing shoes in the past and the blister was under that.
Tuesday: I ignore it and it grows and becomes a little worse. The redness around it makes it more sore and I...
Callie.
I had a most interesting conversation with one of my students last week.
My first half dozen encounters with her she was a little shit to me. I was covering for a History Class after the teacher’s mother died and she would give me attitude about doing her work and treated me as though I had an extra chromosome. She would walk out of class, or curse while in there, or just be loud and...
Happenings.
As the school’s primary substitute teacher there are times where all of our employees collectively decide they can actually put up with the youth of tomorrow and my job gets stretched thin.
I can have number of tasks like: hall duty, classroom coverage, lunch duty, library duty, printer fixer, essay checker, PSAT proctor or crossword doer.
Tuesday I was stuck with my most dreaded duty:...