Hospital Visits

So I went to the hospital after church today.  No, I was not hurt nor was I visiting anyone.  I was craving a good sandwich, specifically a chicken salad sandwich.  I kept thinking of the one I had one evening while Larry was in the hospital.  With the hospital just a half a mile from the house, I decided to go to the hospital cafeteria to get a sandwich to take home so I could picnic in my yard.  I was a little disappointed when the only sandwich in the case today was a turkey one.  I bought it anyway.  It did feel a little weird to be at the hospital cafeteria when I had no one in the hospital.  It felt a bit like cheating.  However the food is good and reasonably priced so I will probably make a "food only run" to the hospital again sometime.  What I didn't know is that I would be back at the hospital later in the day.

 

This evening  I received a call from Peter's school.  He had cut his head and needed to go to the ER.  I met him there.  He has a nice little one inch slice on his forehead just at his hair line.  The story is he was jumping the stairs in the stairwell on his way to Formation. Knowing Peter, I can totally see him jumping the stairs in the stairwell. He hit the cement wall but didn't know he had cut it until another cadet pointed it out.  The ER staff super glued his wound and sent him back to school.  The sad news is he has a sports restriction for the next two weeks.  Spring Football starts tomorrow lasting just about two weeks. He was disappointed as he was looking forward to their getting helmets tomorrow.  He worked really hard to get the nurse to also get him excused from marching.  But she and I agreed that his chances of a head injury while marching were slim.  But then who would have thought he would get a head wound from simply going down the stairs.  The good for Peter in all of this was he got Pizza and Root beer on the way home.  And for me, well Peter was funny and we had some good conversation. I am always grateful for that.