Wedding!

Interesting day today at the hospital -- a man going in for surprise surgery was supposed to get married this weekend. Surprise! He's in the hospital -- and the religious ministries staff just married him TODAY, BEFORE LUNCH to his fiancee. Cool. Music, flowers, hastily assembled guests and hospital staff. Surgery is risky, but now we are all seriously in prayer that he will make it through to enjoy this wedded status. He and she have been living together for 5 years, but it's nice he wants to take care of her (i.e., leave all his property to his mandatory beneficiary).

I've spoken to one of my former patients on the phone today -- first time I have ever heard her voice -- she was on a respirator and then had a tracheotomy, so it was funny to picture the face and body I knew with a voice I have never heard. She is doing well. I hope to see her again when she is back for her 6-week check-up with her neurosurgeon.... I can't seem to let go or really say goodbye (to anyone), but I know what that's about, and hopefully am dealing with it (never having said goodbye to my birth mother). Interesting reflections in group and individual supervision....

Just ate a late lunch, so time to go back onto the units.