So, I spent the night in the hospital last night. Not for me, for my wife.
She had shoulder surgery yesterday. The surgery went well, but she has a difficult time coming out of anesthesia. She told her doctor, she told her anesthesiologist, she told the nurses, she told the mailman (he was concerned), but it doesn’t matter. When she can’t wake up, people are amazed – because they are never the people she’s told.
In their defense, when a normal person, say me, has any day surgery that ends at 3:30pm, I will be coherent at 4:00pm, and out the door by 4:30pm – at the latest.
She will be out of surgery at 3:30pm, cranky by 4:30pm and barely awake at 7pm, assuming a good tailwind.
Here’s the issue: with more and more day surgery “hospitals”, they really want you out by six because they’re closing for the evening.
To get her out by six, surgery should have started last Tuesday.
So, her shoulder surgery started at 3pm, she was admitted to the hospital by 7pm and at 9pm, she was ordering Dominos because the cafeteria was closed. (Yes, they deliver to the hospital.)
I’m waiting to see the diagnosis for her admittance because I think it will be “couldn’t wake up.” Usually, “couldn’t wake up” in a hospital means people with paddles yelling “Clear!” and pressing on your chest and blowing in your mouth.
In this case, it was a nurse who had a bus to catch, and said, “If you can’t get up, we have to admit you.”
This is a stupid threat to make to someone who likes being waited on, and spends a lot of her spare time with various doctors.
It is a doubly stupid threat to make when the other person in the room is trying to postpone being the caregiver as long as possible.
So, she was admitted for “sleepiness”, and then she sent me off home to gather the four tons of supplies she doesn’t carry in her purse – which is probably what weakened her shoulder in the first place.
By the time I ate dinner, got home, walked the dogs, medicated the dogs, corralled the dogs, gathered up the four ton laundry list from the four corners of the house and got back to the hospital, it was after midnight, so I decided to just stay.
This gets many good husband points, and a crick in the neck. 
I almost never sleep in a chair, except on Thanksgiving or in meetings, but the recliner was like a business class seat without the annoying person blocking the aisle.
I never use blankets on a plane, but when I woke up at four with my teeth chattering, I decided to make an exception.
(It turned out it was in the 60s in the room, so either the A/C works or the heat doesn’t.)
I slept like a baby, which is to say I woke up every couple of hours to pee and spent the rest of the time sobbing quietly, wrapped in my blankie.
So, it’s morning and we’re waiting for discharge papers. After that, we have to get the four tons of equipment I retrieved plus all of her new medical equipment home and unpacked.
Then, we set her up in a chair and teach the dogs, “No! Not on Mommy’s shoulder!”
Then, I’m taking a nap.