Things To Take To Hospital For Same-day Procedure

Good.

Sorry, I was not clearer. I meant the area around elevators, where the doctors would wait for an elevator. In the elevator, I'd suggest looking straight ahead at the floor numbers.

Not to make light of your wait and tension at such a time.. but I am recalling a time I was waiting in a hospital. As always, things got delayed, surgeon was late as the previous surgery took longer. This was not a big hospital, more like a surgery center used by many doctors and hospitals. Anyway, so no Starbucks there. I went to a Starbucks a mile away, got a coffee, but didn't use the restroom (pandemic time). So, the wait got longer than expected and I had to use the restroom in the surgery center. It had a code. I didn't know the code. There was no one to ask the code. I waited. My plan was that someone would come to use it, and I'd request them to let me in as they were exiting. No one came. : ) Finally, a doctor (bit balding but handsome) came around. I asked him if he could tell me the code. He was more than happy to do so, and even told me why that was the code (some famous person's birthday). The kind person he was, he actually waited while I entered the code to make sure I got it right.

From that time I learned a lesson: see a restroom, use it, whether I need to or not. : )