So...I think I mentioned that I likened my whole hospital experience akin to checking in at the airport to catch a flight. Meals, Seats/Rooms, ID Tags/Boarding Passes.....so why should the luggage situation be any different? At the pre-operative room, I was given the option of leaving my luggage in my “cubical with a curtain” and it was promised to be transported directly to my room post-surgery.
Post Surgery – I’m in a shared-room sans luggage. It was a lot of effort to speak given my throat was sore after the breathing tube was removed. But I tried to ask for my luggage and was told that it was “temporarily unavailable”. What does that mean? How does a hospital lose luggage?
Thankfully I had my best friend to do the legwork for me to find the luggage. He looked in the pre-operative room, and all the other floors and wards where neurosurgery patients were taken till he finally found it. I was so ecstatic to see my purple Lululemon podium bag with the most precious of all contents – toilet paper. The stuff that is in the ward’s bathroom is NOT toilet paper. It’s made out of sandpaper for people who enjoy exfoliating their bottoms! And real toilet paper is like a precious commodity in a hospital. Kinda like cigarettes are in prison. They can be bartered for food, protection and drugs. So I made sure I packed lots and asked all visitors to give me toilet paper in lieu of flowers, chocolates and other gifts :)
It can get annoying sometimes though – especially when you are resting and someone sidles by your bed begging for “the good stuff” in exchange for anything. Dude, where were you when the Bride of Dracula was pumping my blood like cheap gas from the US?
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