Patience

The emergency room requires patience, lots of patience. I spent today waiting at the ER with my mom. She had surgery a few days ago and didn't feel quite right. So we went in, just to be sure everything was OK. Turns out, just enough wasn't right with her blood work and other things that the hospital decided to keep her for the night. Tomorrow, I expect, she will be released. But today, we were in limbo. The emergency room wasn't like the t.v. show ER, with lots of action to occupy our thoughts. Instead, mom and I were wisked into a private ER room with a closed door, no windows and no clock on the wall. We had a t.v. to watch, but nothing worth watching. And so we waited. We napped a little. But mostly we waited. It was dull. But dull beats critical any day. We had patience enough to last and that made the day OK.