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Chapter 8 Hospital Vigil(s)

There are two categories of hospital vigils.

The vigil with the happy ending, and the other.

Embarked upon the hospital vigil as in a small canoe on a churning white-water river you can have no clear idea which vigil you are embarked upon—the vigil with the happy ending, or the other—until it has come to an end.

Until the patient has been discharged from the hospital and brought safely home. Or not discharged, and never brought home.