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In A Hospital Waiting Room

In A Hospital Waiting Room

Last updated on: November 24, 2009 at 11:22 am by John Shore

In A Hospital Waiting Room 2009-11-24T11:22:47-08:00 John Shore

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(Update: 3:30 p.m. PST, 11/25/09. Cat won’t be going home tonight; we’ll be staying another night here at Club Med. She’s fine; she’s just not where she’d need to be to leave. So tomorrow’s a Thanksgiving we won’t forget!)

(To catch up if you wanna, please see my last three posts, of which this is a continuation.)

Just created this iPod playlist, “Waitin on Cat.” Here are the songs I found myself needing to hear for the next ten hours I’ll be in this waiting room:

Martha 4:03 Pret-A-Porter Various Artists

Fast Car 4:57 Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman

Free Fallin’ 4:16 Greatest Hits Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

My Girl 2:58 Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles … The Temptations

Story of My Life 5:47 Greatest Hits Social Distortion

America 3:41 Collected Works [Disc 2] Simon & Garfunkel

Scarborough Fair/Canticle 3:11 Collected Works [Disc 2] Simon & Garfunkel

Whatta Man 5:08 Very Necessary Salt-N-Pepa

Nitty Gritty Mississippi 2:57 Crossroads Ry CooderCotton Needs Pickin‘ 2:58 Crossroads Ry Cooder

Down In Mississippi 4:26 Crossroads Ry Cooder

Gone At Last 3:41 Still Crazy After All These Years Paul Simon

Born At The Right Time 3:48 Rhythm Of The Saints Paul Simon

How Bizarre (Mix) 3:44 How Bizzare OMC

Ride Wit Me 4:52 Country Grammar Nelly featuring City Spud

Paper Planes 3:24 Kala (Bonus Track Version) M.I.A.

Ohio 3:05 So Far Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Feelin’ Blue 5:17 Willy And The Poor Boys Creedence Clearwater Revival

Pretty 3:41 Pret-A-Porter The Cranberries

Shenandoah 4:53 We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Ses… Bruce Springsteen

Mrs. McGrath 4:20 We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Ses… Bruce Springsteen

Texan Love Song 3:33 Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano P… Elton John

Helpless 3:40 So Far Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Iris 4:50 Dizzy Up the Girl The Goo Goo Dolls

A Mhaithrin, A’Leigfea ‘Un An Aonai… 2:57 The Music Of What Happens Cathie Ryan

Erie Canal 4:03 We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Ses… Bruce Springsteen

Cat’s insane about Christmas. And I’m talking … deeply disturbed. Starting about Dec. 26 of every year, she begins to ask me a minimum of three times a week, “Is it Christmas yet?” Her entire relationship to Christmas is just beyond telling. Anyway, we’re thinking this year’s should be one of our all-time greatest Christmases ever. Got a room at the Disneyland Grand Californian for the night of Dec. 23rd and everything.

It’s such a disorienting thing, to watch your wife’s energy seriously fade over the course of two or so years. This operation should finally whisk that evil specter away.

When I met Cat in the fall of 1978 she was 24 years old. And that’s exactly the age she remained until about two years ago.

And suddenly we were old.

And the poor girl was always so very, very tired, and sick with one thing or another. She stopped exercising. She stopped wanting to go out. Life became less something to enjoy than endure.

And now here we are, hoping the shower-capped gods of modern medicine will give us a do-over.

Thanksgiving.

No kidding.

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