When the system can’t make a sandwich, what else is it failing to do?
My wife had just come out of her 98th surgery. It was 10:30 p.m. She hadn’t eaten in nearly 24 hours — and all she wanted was a BLT.
Something simple. Familiar. A sandwich she’s ordered many times before from the patient menu when things ran on schedule.
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But this time, the kitchen had closed.
She’d been NPO for nearly 24 hours. (That’s short for nil per os — Latin for “y’all don’t eat or drink nothin’.”)
No food. No coffee. No comfort. Just waiting around with dry lips and an empty stomach until anesthesia wears off and the all-clear is given.
So she turned to me and asked, “Can you go down to the grill and
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