My "In Progress" Ordeal of Staying in the Hospital

Preface

Where to I begin so that there is a meaningful end to this "soon to be" long and windy article that will have multiple posts....  

Let me start with the NURSES:   They are not at all like you on TV or in the movies and so far I have got them categorized into 3 groups:

1. Them that should have gone back to the house before their shift started...  and, as much as I respect old people as I am myself old at 72, see these nurses waddling and shuffling through their shift, with no cares, concerns, or urgency in what they are doing...   but, most importantly, they are forgetful and don't apologize for it at all.  It is difficult to ascertain if these nurses are dedicated or simply afraid to retire.
2. Them who are energetic, full of life, love their job and helping people, incredibly competent, and look to things that will make the patient's life more enjoyable while under their particular care.  They are thorough and are proud that they are like that.
3. Them who are still children in their minds and are not quire sure how they passed all their exams in school but glad they did and only do the minimum to get by and try like the dickens to avoid emptying a urinal.  I believe that "space cadet" got its name from these types of nurses.

Next would be the areas of activity and in my particular case, it was the:

• ER
• ICU
• The General Population (sounds like I'm an inmate don't it?

Next would be the doctors...  and, I have experienced two kinds:

A - those that wear white coats, and who constantly keep their hands in their little pockets of their little white coats and who don't say a word but stand in the back as dignified as they can get given the circumstances and observing everyone with an air of contempt or uncertainty, as they hope they don't have to do anything else but like lending their title.

B -  On the Line Generals...  and these are the ones you want to have because get the job done, have the experience, knowledge, education, and skill sets to get the job done, teach, and motivate others even if they need to act like Patton.

C - the administrator who are competent doctors in their own right but must also be politicians who are adept with people skills, listening skills, and communicating skills, and would offer themselves quite sacrificially if they needed to, in order to get the job done

I have been in this damn hospital since Sunday and I may not get to leave until tomorrow (Friday) or Monday...  The only positive thing to say about my room on the heart floor of the general population is that it is bigger than my inside room on a Royal Caribbean Cruise Ship with an large shower that has little water pressures and takes almost until the next day to get hot, but has one of the best damn commodes on which my butt has sat in a long time.

Unless I have digressed, I will write more later.

Thanks for being patient with me...  no pun intended.