ODD THINGS ABOUT KAISER

A short list of my morning's odd findings at Kaiser:

The propensity for purple and aqua. Not a friendly color scheme people! It's just gross. Purple speckled linoleum flooring does not make one feel comfortable. Nor does aqua paint make one feel secure in the ability of this place to cure them. In fact, it only makes you wonder about the sanity of the decorator.

Why on earth is the cafeteria in the basement? As if coming to a hospital wasn't traumatic enough, you cannot even get a cup of pleasant coffee and brave the prepackaged danishes in peace. The basement is generally bustling with sick folks lost and looking for the lab, things on their way to the morgue, and every crunch of a lab receipt, squeak of a gurney wheel, echoes. Is it any wonder I am never hungry in this place?

The horror that is having Oncology next to the babies. Did they think putting us next to these pink and squishy bundles of human procreation would cheer us up? Sadly it only serves to remind us that chemo/surgery has robbed us of the ability to produce pink and squishy offspring.