Weather, and a hospital

Categories: journal

Date: 07 February 2009 07:46:44

The red sky didn't, in the event, presage anything dramatic. In fact, the weather here has been unremarkable. We've had snow, but not to write home about ...

I spent Thursday with my daughter in the Sick Kids. She was having some plastic surgery done. It was a long, anxious day, but the surgeon has said that it went according to plan. It's easier, knowing the system fairly well - knowing that it is the anaesthetist's job to look after the patient through the operation, so that when a bearded man says, "We'll take good care of her," it's a genuine reassurance ...