how to survive a day in the hospital

Kath got it bad. Never will she ever play "spoons" again. She leaped across the table and fell back on her chair and broke a vertebrae. The L1. After a delish Cottage hash-n-eggs for breakfast with the Animal (who is the best BF ever and came up to support), I headed over to The Gen for a day with Kath. I was not sure how the day was going to go, but almost 10 hours later, I found the day flew by. And here is why:

• Work from home! I am lucky enough that most of this week's work could be done online/in excel/through email. I got so much busy work done today and it got my mind of the seriousness of Kath's injury
  
• Facebook. Duh
• Gchat.
  
• Judge Judy. I watched this with Kath on the hospital TV. We bonded while Dad went to work for a bit, hunched over the little remote/speaker thing.
  
• Sister threw a Netflix trial my way. Finally caught Weeds Season 3!
• Put on surgical gloves/masks (conveniently at your disposal in the room)
• Meet Kath's roomie, Mary, who broke her femur this morning. Adorable. At least 90 years old with pink hair.
  
• Fix the room fan so it blows on Kath and Mary.
• Steal fan from Kath for Mary while Kath is having a cat scan.
• Fix fan for Mary again.
  
• Get another fan from nurses station for Kath when she gets back.
  
• Giggle when Dad is giving Mom a spongebath in the bathroom and they pull the nurse cord.
• Hold Kath's hand.
  
• Get Kath a kidney bowl to puke in (and when you forget what you are asking for when you arrive at the nurses station, act out the puking motion for them)
• Flirt with the old men doctors (in case it doesn't work out with Nate)
• Tisk tisk tisk at Kath when she gets out of bed to pee when she is wearing the RED socks. RED socks mean the patient cannot get out of bed.
  
• Eat a cup of raw carrots for lunch (note to self: eat before 1:30 b/c all the good shit is gone)
• Play online cribbage.
• Drink coffee and water. But don't dare do so when Kath had a no food/drink order hanging over her head. Literally.
• Realize you have one of the best bosses in the world. And tell her that.
• Give Mary a kiss on the hand when she went in for surgery.
• Do not tickle Kath's feet.
• Think about how terrible the doctor was that told Kath she only had a bump on the back at the ER in NH.
• Patiently wait for your sister and brother to bring you dinner
• Sweat balls because the room is ridiculously hot.
• Apply baby powder to pits from the hospital welcome kit they give you.
• Take pictures of Kath's bruise on cell phone (furnished upon request)
• Pray.
• Play on bed when no one is in room. Up and down and up and down.
• Take the newspaper to the bathroom and look at the crossword puzzle because you forgot a writing utensil.

More tomorrow when I find new ways to occupy my time!

Life is good.