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Show I never get lost in a Hospital; Just Highly Confused.... departments, if you don't have a good illness with a glamorous name, they can find you one. One tip about hospitals., when you check in be prepared to leave your modesty at the door. They don't believe in it. I wonder who invented those short little wrinkled white hospital gowns. There's nothing can humble a person faster than being separated from his clothes and given one of those little jobs with one tie in the back. Why can't they make them long and in nice pastel shades? Anyway, we sat down in a waiting room and ducked our heads lower and lower as dignified men in business suits came in, were sent into the locker room to change, and came back to sit across from us in their short white gowns, shoes, knee sox and vericose veins. They proceeded to stare at the floor (as we were). We didn't even dare look up enough to read a magazine. Our minds were working frantically trying By Mary Gae E.ans PAROWAN - Hospitals, as the old saying goes, are nice places to visit if you're sick, but you wouldn't want to live there. Our hospital in Cedar City has such a nice, intimate atmosphere and the doctors and nurses act as though they really care about your aches and pains. It is fairly easy to find your way around and if y ou do get lost, your chances of being found within an hour or so are pretty good But the really big hospitals in Salt Lake are a different matter. I've said before I'm just a small town girl and the first time I took my mother to one of them I had a lot to learn. First of all, before I learned how to operate the elevators properly I almost cut a man in a wheel chair in half when the door started to shut before he could get all the way in. I also had to learn to control the impulse to charge out everytime the door opened, instead of waiting for the proper floor. Claustrophbia can really get to you in those things. The floor plans are so com-plicated...wow...it com-plicated...wow...it takes a genius to find his way around. I saw doctors and nurses wondering around looking sort of lost too. They do try to solve this problem with the line system. If you've r ever been there you've noticed the red, yellow, and green lines painted in the halls. Now, the system is that you find a sign telling you where the lines go and then follow your color. If your particular ailment isn't listed for one of the lines, I don't know what you'd do. Anyway, all through the halls there are dozens of people walking bent over, following the colored lines. If you look up and lose your line you just as well go home-it's too hard to find it again. By the time you did you'd probably be well anyway from all that exercise. They have so many different to figure a way to make a graceful exit. We felt very out of place in there with our clothes on. We got the wrong floor once and could tell immediately we were in the urology department. Everyone there carries around little plastic bags attached to a cord over their arm and they aren't very modest either. They were gathered in little groups visiting and having a good time. We finally raked up enough courage to ask a gentlemen there for directions and after he gave us a wierd look for wearing regular clothes-instead of the normal white gowns-he showed us to the elevator and we found the main floor again. The outside world, with people wearing clothes, looked mighty good to us. I'm a little worried about my daughter having her baby in a big hospital in California. Which line do you follow to find new mothers and which line do new mothers follow to find their babies? |
