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Monday, November 17, 2008
At the Ambulatory Center...
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CC is listening to: An episode of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (Colombia)
Steve and I are at the hospital's ambulatory center, which is the place where relatives wait as patients get prepped for surgery. His mom's here for an outpatient procedure.
Think of the ambulatory center as a huge waiting room with a row of telephones along the wall. I'm not completely sure of the entire process, but I think this is how it's going to work: his mom won't be assigned a room until the operation is over (which kind of makes sense from a "hospital-needs-to-earn-money-it-doesn't-make-sense-to-assign-someone-to-a-room-if-they're-going-to-be-in-surgery-the-whole-time-anyway" perspective).
Anyway what they do is they call your name and tell you to go to a particular phone (or the front desk) so you can be given an update on the patient's progress and be told which room they're going to be assigned to after they're wheeled out of recovery. That means a family member has to stay in the ambulatory center from the time the procedure starts until it ends, just in case you need to be apprised of anything.
It almost feels like we're at an airport waiting for our plane to board :-). The chairs are laid out like at an airport gate, you've got the PA system making announcements...I was telling Steve, "the sad part is that I've traveled often enough that this doesn't feel foreign to me :-)."
The good news is that the hospital has free Wi-Fi :-). Slingbox saves the day :-)!
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