Day 10 - Late Night

Community is when your small group meets in a hospital cafeteria so that you can stay near your kiddo. That's what our group did this evening to keep us company. Thanks guys! Lyndsi beat us again at Apples to Apples. I question the wisdom of challenging her again, but it's a great way to laugh and get to know folks better.One funny story that I had to pass on came a little after 8pm this evening. Rayna had just sat down to join us, and a page came over the intercom summoning folks to 231. Well, that's Peyton's room number. We jumped and ran to her room, moving recklessly fast through the maze of chairs in the cafeteria. Rayna says I left a couple of downed chairs in my wake.

We ran full speed to the PICU, arriving only to see our nurse sitting calmly outside the room. She looked at us quizzically and asked if everything was okay. We assessed Peyton's room to find no doctors, no nurses, no extra machines. What was the fuss all about?

Turns out there's a tube system running throughout the hospital like one a bank uses in its drive-throughs. The intercom message beckoned for someone or another to come to communication station 231 where these tubes meet. What a relief!

We laughed and then returned to our small group. We found them in the waiting room outside the PICU. Evidently they had followed us a couple steps behind, stoping at the doors to the PICU, watching through the little windows in the doors. Needless to say, they were quite perplexed to see Rayna and I walking casually back to them laughing along the way. Once we explained our misunderstanding, everyone got a good chuckle and calmed down as the adrenaline wore off. One more example of our friends covering our backs and carrying our burdens.