Why hospitals have mirrors

Dad is fussing with the phone charger, meticulously taping it with medical tape to my pillow so that I can reach it in the night without moving too much. It’s just going to pop off when I lower my hospital bed, but I let him fixate over it anyway. Scott has that 20-feet-away look…

The funny side of the hospital bed

Staying in hospital is not fun. It’s very dull. Through the discomfort, however, humour pierces through.

Checking into hospital is similar to checking into a hotel, only you have to be there at 6am*. The downside is no promise of sampling…

7 minutes of SMILE RELEX.

DISCLAIMER — All views expressed here are my own.

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9 random observations from a hospital bed on Christmas day

On Christmas Eve, I had an appendix. On Christmas Day I did not.

Although the timing sounds poor, it couldn’t have worked out better. My appendix chose to go nuclear on the one night I was staying with…