The things that I have learned from sitting at the hospital?  That list is infinitely long, but let me muse over the ones that are pressing on my heart as I sit updating from a computer in (yet another) the waiting room.

1. People everywhere talk much too loudly on their cellphones.  If you have to yell, they need to turn up their hearing aids.  Please ask them to do so, because I don’t want to wear one at the age of 21.
2. No one knows what’s going on.  No matter how fancy the high-tech equipment is at the hospital, no one really knows when your dad went into surgery or exactly when they could be done. (The prediction is definitely AFTER visiting hours are over, obviously)
3. The hospital coffee IS good coffee.
4. The fact that there is also a Wendys in the hospital is indication that the cafeteria food is JUST THAT delicious.
5. The nurse manager WILL begin to recognize you if you come in every day and always go straight for the Coke machine behind the station.
6. Male nurses that use Nair and confess to their third-degree burns…well you can draw your own conclusions about those.

I wish that I was more hopeful, patient, and understanding. I think those are on the list of things God is trying to teach me.