Day 12 - Discharged but not yet home

This has been a super day! The doctors discharged me from the hospital. Whew, eighteen days is a long hospital stay in my book. I am now officially an "outpatient" and residing in the hotel wing of the Medical Center for the next few days.

The view is so much improved - I no longer see the side of an old red brick building and the snowy isolation of a small garden. Now, I see the snowy roof tops of old red brick buildings and beyond to the street with all the hubbub of city life.

The other real advantage - I have a roommate! Not a bed mate, but a roommate nonetheless and she is lovely. I am hoping this does not mean I can't still take her for a stroll in the hospital corridors - or is it that she takes me?

I am grateful that the hospital stay is over for me. Being a patient requires patience, endurance and the encouragement of others. In my gratitude for my discharge I also extend encouragement to the other patients on the floor I just left who have been there longer than me and have farther yet to go.

Grace and peace,
Tim.