So just recently, I underwent some surgery to fix up my nose, which has been blocked for well over a decade. Turns out that when you get older, your body doesn’t heal too well anymore and so those nights where you don’t get as much sleep as you like to – you don’t really heal or recover too well. The surgeon fixed that up… hopefully (I’m still recovering and my nose is completely blocked).
What was interesting however, was the overnight stay in the hospital. You see, I expected this to be a straightforward in-and-out thing. Turns out complications occurred which prevented me from being discharged immediately and prompted an overnight stay for monitoring purposes.
The way I’d describe this prolonged stay was – I was bored. I couldn’t do anything much really as I was still drowsy from the anesthetic and so I slept. I slept so much that when I woke up, I was like “great, that wasn’t so bad!”. And then I saw the clock on the wall that said 11:30pm.
I had a whole night to go and I was bright eyed, totally awake. But you see, it felt like daytime because of all the chaos occurring. In the corner, we have an insane patient screaming her head off: “Ella, ellaaaa, ellllaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!! Akhbar allah akhbar!”. What a way to pray, waking up every other patient in the ward at the same time. The attending nurse comes storming down the hall muttering as she goes past “goodness gracious, is ANYONE getting any sleep around here – excuse me, WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM?”. The lady proceeds to mutter in some middle eastern/persian language and somehow the nurse understands. “Well what would you like me to do? Give you some morphine?”. Lo and behold, nurse shoots her up one and she falls asleep. The wonders some people will go through to get some morphine?
Meanwhile after this commotion, I’m still bored so I pretend to wander down to the toilets, like 5 times. Walking around trying to see who else wanted a conversation. And then no sooner than I think that I hear: “Ellllaaaaaaaa!!!!”
I never knew a hospital could be this interesting.
ps. shot with Nikkor 80-200 F2.8 in the daytime, 1:1 crop:
