I went into the Rehab center next to the hospital today to be fitted for my knee brace. It’s a rather large building. For the brace I had to go to the prosthetics and orthotics dept. To get to it, you walk through the parking lot, enter the front doors, walk halfway through the building to the elevators.
Take the elevators to the lower level, exit to the right and walk the rest of the way to the back of the building. As my knee was just about to give out on me, I thought of the absurdity in all this.
The prosthetics dept is the one furthest from the entrance.
Yeah! And why is the word abbreviation so long? And speech impediment so hard to say? And why does the word lisp have an “s” in it? Cruel and evil are our mystic overlords.
I ran into the same kind of thing when I was recovering from pneumonia last year. I huffed and puffed my way into the doctors’ office and asked the receptionist “Whose bright idea was it to put the pulmonologists’ office at the top of two flights of stairs?”
I once was at a urologist’s office where they offered up big cups of fresh coffee. Something to make you pee was probably intentional, but it just looked funny.
And why is it so hard to remember how to spell ‘mnemonic’?
This is the hospital where my mother works. When they were building it, there were news stories and such about how fast and convenient it would be, nothing was more than a few seconds from the nurses stations and central elevators and so on. As far as I know, they never built another one like it. Maybe it just looked too damn weird.
I had a lot of fun at the Naval hospital when Lucas was born. They lock all the entrances except emergency after 2000.
The thing is, the doors of the main entrance just have an arrow pointing to the right. There are signs directing you towards the ER as you come in from the street, but there’s no other indication of how to get to it from the main entrance besides those little arrows saying “It’s somewhere in that direction.”
Furthermore, the turn I should have taken is a service alley between two seperate parts of the hospital and has no sidewalk. Hmmm. Dark narrow alley with no sidewalk… or well lit continuation of sidealk when all I have to go on are some arrows pointing me down the sidewalk?
So I pretty much endedup walking around over half of the perimeter of the main building(s). At least it wasn’t 35 degrees and raining. It was 40 degrees and merely toying with the idea of raining.
I was born in that hospital! Well the old hospital that was replaced with the new one. And being on top of a hill in Tacoma, there can’t be many other hospitals anywhere that have a better view.
