Hospital waits are bad ones. The fact that they happen to pretty much all of us, sooner or later, doesnt make them any less hideous. Theyre always just a little too cold. It always smells just a little bit too sharp and clean. Its always quiet, so quiet that you can hear the fluorescent lights - another constant, those lights - humming. Pretty much everyone else there is in the same bad predicament you are, and there isnt much in the way of cheerful conversation. And theres always a clock in sight. The clock has superpowers. It always seems to move too slowly. Look up at it and it will tell you the time. Look up an hour and a half later, and it will tell you two minutes have gone by. Yet it somehow simultaneously has the ability to remind you of how short life is, to make you acutely aware of how little time someone you love might have remaining to them.
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