I remember when
Dec. 10th, 2008 02:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petmoosieMy friend had her first baby. Her husband was supposed to pick his mother up at the airport. He called me at work (he was my coworker) and asked me to pick her up and gave me the flight number and airline. I wrote a sign with Mrs. (very Polish last name) on it and went up there.
I picked her up at the gate (I believe), and brought her back to the hospital neighborhood. She wanted to get flowers, so we circled the hospital, stopping at two garden centers and finally finding a florist. We got to the hospital and went to the front desk and asked (yes, this is before HIPPA, why do you ask?). No patient by that name. We tried the maiden name, she was discharged this afternoon.
So we went to the apartment (one-bedroom apartment). My friend, the wife, was sitting in the non-bedroom room holding the baby. My friend, the husband, was in the bedroom far away from the door in the bed. He called out, "Hi, mom, I'm very sick here." or something similar. The grandmother said, "I've seen you sick before, I want to see the baby". And my friend, the wife, and I started laughing our heads off.
Turns out that my friend, the husband, had gone out to eat the previous night, when his wife and child were snug in the hospital. He went to a buffet nearby. Apparently, he had the wrong food item, because about an hour after he returned, he felt really ill. Really, really ill, in need of a bathroom ill. He made a mess in the bathroom attached to her mother and baby room. She tried to clean it up without using abdominal muscles (but it was impossible). He was sent to the emergency room and barred from the mother-baby unit. When he arrived (on a stretcher, I think), the emergency room asked him questions to check him in. "Where are you coming from?", he answered with the room number of his wife in the mother-baby unit. They were very confused by this answer. They were either expecting his address or the name of the place where he had gotten sick.
His wife and child were discharged before he was, although the wife was forbidden to drive. He managed to drive one block away from the hospital and then she drove the 6 or 7 blocks home.
I picked her up at the gate (I believe), and brought her back to the hospital neighborhood. She wanted to get flowers, so we circled the hospital, stopping at two garden centers and finally finding a florist. We got to the hospital and went to the front desk and asked (yes, this is before HIPPA, why do you ask?). No patient by that name. We tried the maiden name, she was discharged this afternoon.
So we went to the apartment (one-bedroom apartment). My friend, the wife, was sitting in the non-bedroom room holding the baby. My friend, the husband, was in the bedroom far away from the door in the bed. He called out, "Hi, mom, I'm very sick here." or something similar. The grandmother said, "I've seen you sick before, I want to see the baby". And my friend, the wife, and I started laughing our heads off.
Turns out that my friend, the husband, had gone out to eat the previous night, when his wife and child were snug in the hospital. He went to a buffet nearby. Apparently, he had the wrong food item, because about an hour after he returned, he felt really ill. Really, really ill, in need of a bathroom ill. He made a mess in the bathroom attached to her mother and baby room. She tried to clean it up without using abdominal muscles (but it was impossible). He was sent to the emergency room and barred from the mother-baby unit. When he arrived (on a stretcher, I think), the emergency room asked him questions to check him in. "Where are you coming from?", he answered with the room number of his wife in the mother-baby unit. They were very confused by this answer. They were either expecting his address or the name of the place where he had gotten sick.
His wife and child were discharged before he was, although the wife was forbidden to drive. He managed to drive one block away from the hospital and then she drove the 6 or 7 blocks home.
