A night at the hospital

With the pandemic state declared and the constant talk of the swine
flu, Kelly and I had the sad opportunity to see how it looks inside
the Ottawa General Hospital on a Friday night.

Not going to the ER for shortness of breath, cough OR fever, Kevin had
to go have his leg checked out, after having excruciating pains all
day. It looks bad, the emergency room full of people wearing masks and
constantly walking back and forth to the hand sanitizing station, we
could smell the sickness.

In between pain spasm, we kept ourselves entertained by blogging,
talking about stock photography and dreaming of Thai food... Which we
supposed to cook for dinner, rapidely replaced with a visit to the
walk-in clinic, greeted by the rudest receptionist ever saw.. Then
transfered to the ER, after the doctor jokingly made a comment about
the condition of kevin's leg looking like "flesh-eating disease".

Despite the medias with their daily scares on the H1N1, the ER was
extremely fast... We didn't wait a single second to get to the
screening process. At that point, they decided that it would be best
to get some blood work done and plugged Kevin on an IV. Again,
everything so far was instant, bloodwork included. Kelly didn't even
have time to get a wheelchair and Kevin was called to the other
processing booth.

We had fine time with bloodwork, Kelly not being able to look at
people getting needles... Decided to walk away. Good thing since the
nurse, which was very professional, had a little blood mishap while
putting in the IV, spilling blood all over kevin's jeans.

Back in the waiting room, we suddently had the urge to get some
food... So Kelly is now gone, with kevin's debit card, on the food
hunt.... The question now is... How will we eat with masks on?

More to come, in a few hours!