Hospital Life
January 2005

Morning  Breakfast  Body Wash 
Wound Dressing  Lunch  Starbucks  Elevators 
Visitors  Afternoon  Early Evening  Nightfall 

Morning
0630


vitals. 'how many times urine and stool since 10pm?'


IV problems, need to replace leaking IV


vein hunting


covered with injection holes and hardened veins

Breakfast
0830


chocolate milk!

Body Wash & Sheet Change
0930


phone calls, phone calls, phone calls

Wound Dressing
1100


ouch!!


two weeks later, sub-cutaneous tissue actually looking much better


the magical tissue building gel


removing stitches

Lunch
1200

Starbucks
1030, 1300, whenever

Elevators
here and there

Visitors
now and then

Afternoon
Physical Therapy, Wound Dressing


more phone calls


cleaning the area


opening the wound


packing the wound


irrigation


betadine!


more packing


closure preparation


that wasn't so bad was it? see you in a few hours...

Early Evening
1700


a happy moment


IV trouble again...


and again...


ouch!! i have no more veins left!


now i get chills whenever i see that cart coming!

Nightfall
1900 - 2330


[ panorama image ]


the pain comes at night


relief by pentadine injection

Tsunami Home  


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P H O T O G R A P H Y
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Mid-Levels District
Hong Kong, SAR
People's Republic of China
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