Short musing on hospitals

[redthroatedloon]

It's been an extraordinarily weird month. Right now, I'm dealing with a huge amount of work, an attempt to take time for my own writing (which isn't really happening), and I'm trying to make time to accompany my cousin to the doctors -- she's got some very weird and painful condition that nobody up in British Columbia was able to properly diagnose, so she's here to see some expert doctors. Paying with her charge card, which scared the lumbar puncture guys so much that they didn't want to accept her at first, until the International Services folks (who are there to help visitors from other countries who are coming to the hospital) got involved. Which keeps striking me as weird, since my cousin grew up in New Jersey...