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The Hospital Waiting Room Revisited
Part 1
by Susan Dunn

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I would rather drink Clorox than waiting room coffee. But of course I drink it, and I'm glad it's there. "How nice," I think, "that they provide this." The only other thing that always seems to be in a hospital waiting room is 1000-piece jigsaw puzzles.

I don't know about you, but when I'm stressed, those tiny pieces are too much; however the length of time it would take to complete one is fitting. I've been back to same waiting room for weeks. How about you?

I find the circumstances in a hospital waiting room to include, as one of the astronauts said about space flight, "all the elements necessary for a murder."

Things have improved over the years, but they'll always be trying. Actually, that old adage first attributed to a bomber pilot fits: It's hours and hours of boredom punctuated by stark terror.

Of course it can also be punctuated by incredible relief, and abundant joy, and that's part of the equation. Emotions are running high. Everyone there is concerned and waiting for information, waiting for a decision. Waiting.

So what helps? Information is always helps. If this is new territory to you, here are some tips gleaned over the years:

DIVERSION

Bring light reading material and other amusements, like your laptop. And be glad for laptops. One of the worst fights I saw in a waiting room - and this the Pediatric Intensive Care waiting room, one of the saddest places on earth - was over the single electrical outlet available.

There were numerous fights in this particular waiting room which, at the time included a dorm with bunks for sleeping, and which, because it was pediatric, included young folks, arguably more volatile. Many of us were there for weeks and began to get involved in each other's lives and squabbles, like a group thrown together on a desert isle. Only worse.

At night, in the dorm, the snoring made me want to kill someone, and the sobbing made me want to convert to Buddhism and learn how to remove all suffering from the world. I sought the mercy of sleep. It was hard to come by, and when we don't sleep well, everything is worse. Which brings up the next point.

There was someone on-call to come up and mediate fights, and guess who it was? The chaplain. Who else could handle this emotionally-charged cauldron of pain? So know that when needed, there's a chaplain there. There's a chaplain and a chapel in most hospitals. Seek and ye shall find.

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