Children's Hospital DC

I took Cam down to Children's today for his procedure. Directions c-. We went a couple of miles out of our way and had to ask two different people for directions. The one whose wife worked at Children's directed us, but even he said to go to North Capital and look for the signs.

Patient care - A+. They were very concerned about not hurting Cam any more than they had to. They even gave him a lidocain patch for the IV site so he wouldn't feel it going in. That's service. They let me know what was going on through everything and at one point a surgeon who was operating on another boy came out to reassure the parents that everything was okay because he had been gone for about an hour longer than anticipated.

Surgeon - Cam's surgeon is terrific, knowledgeable, kind, caring, everything you could ask for in a doctor, esp in a profession that's famous for its cold fishes.

The worst part was the smell. The hospital smells terrible, particularly the front entrance. It smells like every bum in the city took a piss and a dump and nobody bothered to clean up. Or like someone was storing every filthy diaper from the entire hospital in an invisible bin. It was awful. I gagged. The rest of the hospital smelled much better, not exactly good but better.

So now we wait for the biopsy. Didn't we just go through this with Cullen?