Any Place I Hang My Hat
“Also, I was hungry. Naturally, after dispatching a container of vanilla yogurt and half a navel orange, I pictured a surgeon talking over my near-dead body: I have to operate. Pray she didn’t eat or drink anything in the last twenty-four hours.
Nevertheless, with a peach Snapple so I wouldn’t have to drink from an emergency-room water fountain and a book of the Lewis and Clark journals for company, I took a cab to the nearest hospital, one of those places the sick rich favor, with private rooms... featuring all-day/all-night snack service and phones with data ports.
No doubt they had a secret emergency room for the wealthy; I would have to ask Tatty. The ER waiting room I was in was decorated in the Soviet gulag style, what with a dead clock, its face veiled by shattered glass, a dying ficus with brown-edged, dust-coated leaves, and brown plastic chairs on rust-pocked metal legs. The TV was stuck on an in-house channel that kept rerunning a tape entitled “Neurocutaneous Syndromes.”MoreLess
Nevertheless, with a peach Snapple so I wouldn’t have to drink from an emergency-room water fountain and a book of the Lewis and Clark journals for company, I took a cab to the nearest hospital, one of those places the sick rich favor, with private rooms... featuring all-day/all-night snack service and phones with data ports.
No doubt they had a secret emergency room for the wealthy; I would have to ask Tatty. The ER waiting room I was in was decorated in the Soviet gulag style, what with a dead clock, its face veiled by shattered glass, a dying ficus with brown-edged, dust-coated leaves, and brown plastic chairs on rust-pocked metal legs. The TV was stuck on an in-house channel that kept rerunning a tape entitled “Neurocutaneous Syndromes.”MoreLess
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