The hospital may be overcrowded - but they have a Starbucks just inside the main entrance - with public internet terminals And they're all free too. That may have something to do with the fact that they've also got bl$%^#y Dean Martin singing Christmas carols on the muzak track.....
 

Yesterday evening my temperature started to rise.  and reached 38.0 degrees by about 7.30 pm. that's the warning level at which I have to call the hospital and prepare to go in.  I did all the right things - rested, took a nap, drank cooling drinks - but it continued up and by 9.45 was at 38.4.  Time to go - so I was on a 9.30 ferry to Central, andat the hospital by 10.30.   My temp was up to about 38.6 by 2 am - but back to normal by this morning.   But - once admitted they dont like to let you out within 24 hours - so I'm in for a second night - but assuming nothing untoward happens I should be out tomorrow.  And if  the temp returns it's another course of antibiotics for me....

 

But now I need to go and sneak back into the ward before they notice that I've absconded....