Ahhh, the ER waiting room, or the ER room you're waiting in. (And here I was, worrying about not having posted a Thirtylist in a while.) Finding ways to pass the time is essential-- here are a few I've tried tonight (or other people here have):
1. Go outside and check your phone messages.
2. Walk around the ER.
3. Go out to the waiting room for a Diet Coke.
4. Go out to the entryway for newspaper.
5. Kick the nurse's ass for not giving your friend her pain meds.
6. Sit and think about your bed.
7. Sit and think about how tomorrow's going to blow.
8. Write a new blog entry on your notepad.
9. Kick the nurse's ass for not listening when your friend says she can't roll over by herself.
10. Go outside and check your home phone messages.
11. Watch Battlestar Galactica on your iPod. (wishin')
12. Listen to Audible books on your iPod. (reality)
13. Get snacks from the waiting room machines.
14. Plan your garden for the year on your notepad.
15. Walk up and down the hallway of the ER.
16. Try to take a nap in your uncomfortable chair.
17. Walk outside around the building hoping the guy in the next room stops retching by the time you come back. (Poor guy)
18. Talk to your friend's mom and try to get the nurse to listen to her for your friend's history.
19. Kick the doctor's ass for not making sure she got her pain meds.
20. Joke with inordinately hot X-ray tech walking by.
21. Clean out your purse.
22. Organize your purse.
23. Fall asleep in your uncomfortable chair.
24. Fall over onto floor. (Just call me grace.)
25. Hold your friend's hand when she wakes up because the pain meds aren't working.
26. Bring your friend water.
27. Try to get the nurse to bring your friend a blanket.
28. Talk to the lady next door whose husband has stopped retching and is now sleeping.
29. Go and get coffee for you and the lady next door.
30. Go find the doctor and make sure your friend gets some more pain meds.
The list is getting longer, but that's enough marking time for me. Hope my friend improves here a bit, I'm ready to beat the living shit out of this nurse. Think good thoughts for her (my friend that is... this nurse needs an attitude adjustment, so she can kiss my ass)!
