Had to leave a family member in the hospital overnight for observation.\u00a0 Everything should be OK but the doctors wanted to be sure.\u00a0 As we headed upstairs from the emergency room, I scrutinized the floor we were assigned.\u00a0 No nurses were running around frantic and overwhelmed, no patients were stumbling around the halls desperately searching for a glass of water or a blanket.<\/p>\n
When we got our room, I watched the nurse carefully.\u00a0 She seemed friendly and competent.\u00a0 She listened politely while we explained we had missed dinner while in the ER and asked if a tray could be sent up, even though it was 10pm.\u00a0 She nodded and then went through her paperwork.\u00a0 I waited and listened to her gathering history as I pretended to read my book.\u00a0 I was surprised when she asked about unusual bruises or scratches.<\/p>\n
I looked up and commented, “We have a farm.\u00a0 Sometime we have bruises and scratches we don’t even notice for days and can’t remember where we got them.\u00a0 Why?”<\/p>\n
She replied that the hospital takes note of large bruises, scratches, or other injuries that a patient arrives with so that a patient can’t claim later that it happened while in the hospital.\u00a0 I was digesting this information, wondering when we became such a ridiculously litigious society, when she spoke again.<\/p>\n
“Did you say you farmed?\u00a0 Do you need any roosters?\u00a0 A bunch of our chicks turned out to be roosters and I’ve got to give those guys away or butcher them.\u00a0 They’re fighting terribly.”<\/p>\n
I laughed out loud, thinking of our roosters that were safely crated already and waiting to be butchered after church.<\/p>\n
“Nope.\u00a0 We’re full up on roosters.”\u00a0 I said.<\/p>\n
Then the meal tray arrived.\u00a0 And I picked up my book, gave a kiss tonight, and headed home to get to some sleep before coming back to talk to the doctor in the morning.\u00a0 I knew we were in good hands.<\/p>\n
Because my people are everywhere.<\/p>\n
Everywhere, I tell ya.<\/p>\n
Thank goodness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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