The Hospital

[rainbowmods]

The hospital is sterile and sprawling, its hallways and patient rooms painted a glaring white. The floor is made of something hard and shining, and the lights are that peculiar kind of flourescent that makes everyone look ill.

The first floor consists of the lobby (painted a sickly green), an emergency room, and several surgery suites, all stocked with cutting-edge, even futuristic, technology and supplies. There is a cafeteria, though the buffet line is empty; the only consumables seem to be stocked in a line of vending machines along one wall. There are no stairs, only elevators, to the upper floors, which all consist of patient rooms: made beds, glazed windows, dying flowers, and the hard plastic orange chairs that are a constant in hospitals.

The whole building smells like antiseptic and death.


((Please mark your healthcare professionals as such, and enjoy!))

Comments

Re: Patient: Yuyan

[brenda_young]

"I'd like to take your temperature, then," Brenda said. "What are your other symptoms?" She rapped on a door, fully expecting the lack of answer, and pushed it open to find it empty and the bed made up with sheets creased along precise lines.

Re: Patient: Yuyan

[isana]

Yuyan frowned. "All right, but it's probably not broken yet." She coughed. "I've been rather achy, too, and sometimes I can't really breathe through my nose. It's a little hard to get up or walk, since I get dizzy."

They came into a room, and inside was the strangest looking bed she'd ever seen. "How--how do you get it so the mattress isn't lumpy?" she asked.

Re: Patient: Yuyan

[brenda_young]

Definitely a different era. "Assembly line machine production," Brenda said. "Companies that make mattresses make them identical. You can reposition it, too, if you want--there's a little control to do it." She found it on the other side of the bed and held it out. "This button to sit up, and this one to lie flat."

Re: Patient: Yuyan

[isana]

All these new words were making Yuyan's head swim. "So they make them all look...the same? Without making them lumpy?"

When the nurse showed her the little box that made it go up and down, she decided to sit on the bed itself before she got dizzy again. It was soft! Much softer than the one in the infirmary, even if it smelled funny.

Re: Patient: Yuyan

[brenda_young]

"That's it exactly," Brenda said. She turned away and found a plastic pitcher and cup under the sink, then brought the filled pitcher over to the girl. "Here you are. My name is Brenda, by the way."

Re: Patient: Yuyan

[isana]

"Thank you," said Yuyan, and drank. The water stung her throat, but in a few moments, she felt a little better.

"My name is Yuyan," she offered shyly.

Re: Patient: Yuyan

[brenda_young]

Brenda smiled back. "That's a pretty name." She turned and found an ear thermometer in one of the cabinets and popped on a cover. "I want to take your temperature with this. It just goes in your ear canal and measures quickly."

Re: Patient: Yuyan

[isana]

Yuyan blinked, trying not to sink into the impossibly soft and smooth mattress. "How do you measure something like that, aside from too hot and too cold?"