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Friday Slide Show: The Hospital Room
7 November 2025
You are rolled out of the ICU on a gurney, down hallways, around corners, avoiding collisions, to another room, the size of a closet, where the nurses hook you back up to the monitors and fuss over you a bit.
Routine for them. Bewildering for you.
So yesterday we visited a bewildered Joyce in a hospital room instead of the ICU. Not much had changed, we assured her, but she doesn't require the constant monitoring of the ICU now.
And a few moments later a patient care rep predicted she'd likely be released tomorrow. Transported by gurney back to the skilled nursing facility. Assuming she's stable.
We hang around until her wound dressing is changed because 1) it is always a different nurse, 2) they don't have the supplies the surgeon ordered that we always bring and 3) they aren't told where the wound is.
They are mostly relieved to be in a room with someone who has dressed the wound for four years because it's inevitably their first time. So we tell them what we normally do, why we do it and let them take it from there.
But as we sat around waiting for that, it occurred to us that we had a slide show to prepare. And yet, here we were, stuck in a cramped hospital room. Flourescent lights, one little window and the light from monitors illuminating the chaos.
Well, we thought, if you look carefully, you can turn nearly anything into a photograph. You just have to look to see.
So we took it as a challenge to make a beautiful photo. Or at least an amusing one. Or a puzzling one. Or something.
We had fun, to tell you the truth, on our little adventure as Joyce rested and we waited for the RN to return to do the dressing change. But did we succeed?
You be the judge.
