Checking in from the hospital

[scarlettina]

kateyule, davidlevine and I are at Swedish Hospital, Cherry Hill, keeping e_bourne company while markbourne is in surgery. (Explanation can be found here, complete with Star Trek videos.) Latest report is that he's on the heart/lung machine and they're excising the old valve nowish.

The waiting area is very civilized: a Starbuck's, wifi, music, and comfortable furniture for waiting. The atmosphere is open and airy, part of the lobby, with a door out to a sunny patio area. It doesn't feel like the hospital waiting rooms I remember: bare and grim with a TV mounted from the ceiling and 6-month-old magazines. We brought home-baked chocolate chip cookies and strawberries for munching. We had lunch at the hospital cafeteria that was actually quite good. E and D are now playing cribbage while I do my internet run. And so it goes.

Will report more as we hear it. Please feel free to point anyone who may have an interest here to my journal for updates.