Words?
What do words say to you? What does it mean...what should it mean...what can it mean???
These are enormous questions when left alone.
Yesterday afternoon, I was offered many, by someone nearby, but...without a single word from self, was exposed to a tirade of pent-up anger, frustration, and all manner of internal emotions, that burst upon my unsuspecting frame...my mind closed at first, as my form of protection, however, 30 minutes later I gave up, and exploded too...
My question was, 'what have I ever done to you?'
This person was in a world of their own, extremely well-read, sane and respectable in every degree...however, I walked out of my sick bed, (yes, that IS what I did!!), and vowed never to converse with this person again.
Rationale can be fruitless when faced with a rotting pie.
I regret giving this person 30 minutes, because I just sat there drawing, and the tirade helped my sketch actually...but enough is enough...we all have a value and a limit, and it should not be tested too often, though there are many who need reminding of the fact.
Anyway, it is snowing outside, and I'm being treated for extremely high blood pressure once more, affecting my heart, and as for the spine...well, the local news here is that our hospital, (a 'flagship hospital') is £30 million in debt and surgeons have been 'ordered to delay or even postpone operations at all costs'.
So, after waiting well over a year with a now confirmed broken spine, can now expect to wait another year, which my Chinese practitioners warned will put me permanantly in a wheelchair.
I'll fight them with this, and failing that, will go abroad to face my essential spinal operation.
Do words or health come first??
...neither of them actually...as money is the ultimate winner...
money possessess all...though possessed by few it seems.
) but this medium tends to make friends quickly so I'm reserving a space on your list. 

Hi Lauren,
What an experience! I am so sorry that you had to endure it, and hope that the nurses have orders not to let this person back into your room. The hospital service itself sounds appalling too and I wonder whether you can find an advocate to make sure that you get this op as soon as possible?
After all this time, and though I know she can be subject to criticism, I think it's a shame that Florence Nightingale's first principle still hasn't sunk into a lot of these institutions.
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm... FN
We can only wish you well and hope that you can find someone within the system who will be a good advocate for you at this time....