Hospital Blogging

Going to hospital in the USA is like going to a motel. A little card greets you on the end of the bed telling you how and when your room was cleaned. You get offered a beverage, and if you are the actual patient, you get a special branded souvenir mug with a straw. The main differences are the amount of machines in the room and also that room service is provided by RNs.

So, sitting here in the hospital with Rachel getting ready to have a baby, I am learning all kinds of medical jargon.The doctor that came in to check that baby was the right way up told us "yup, he's noggin down". Rachel (poor dear) always has trouble giving blood samples, which makes her a 'hard stick". In order to facilitate a better blood draw, her arms were wrapped in warm blankets. Which was ok, until the nurse came in and said "Lets give your arms a break". Well, I guess that if your arms are going to have a break, the hospital is the best place for that to happen!

 Hospital visit Souvenir Mug!

The reason behind...

Today we had visitors come over for lunch after church.  It was very pleasant.  Ron and Pam came over along with Michelle.  With this being my wife's parents and sister, she was telling me how relaxed she was about the whole thing.  This was wonderful news, as there is usually a slightly stressful atmosphere surrounding the visit of my friends to the house.  We had a wonderful time, sharing chicken, salad and a marvelous rhubarb pie made by my mother in law.

However, that conversation in the car opened up a whole new level of understanding regarding what a visit is actually for.  For all these years I had thought that having friends over was an opportunity to eat together, talk together, and maybe even play some music together.  Not so, according to this new information I was able to pick up on between the lines of my wife's relaxed approach to having her own family over.  Normally she would be stressed out for days or even weeks over the arrival of our visitors.  And what would be the cause of this stress?  It was, of course, the real reason behind having visitors over.  Because the real reason is to show them how clean your bathroom is - even the downstairs one that no one ever uses anyway.

A Bathroom - Is it clean enough?