No sleep masks. You could hurt yourself with the elastic. I have ear plugs but this group of people is silent so haven't needed them. One time I was hear I lived with the things so that is a nice thing.

Hospitalization is a weird thing. It's totally different than anything else in the world and yet it rapidly feels routine. Or maybe that's because this is my 5th time and I know everyone and how things work. Like I know I'll be getting an EKG this afternoon and I knew I'd be wakened at 6 for a blood draw. I did not know that the woman would choose to do this by walking into my room and turning on the light which was not appreciated by the migraine. It was so sweet of her. But at least this time she improved on my last encounter with her. This time she had a student who didn't actually bandage me so I had to deal with bleeding but this woman a couple years ago drew blood and put the bandage on the wrong vein. I started yelping that blood was pouring down my arm and she started blotting my pants while I was like "um, stop the bleeding please?". There are always conversations among strangers that you wouldn't ever encounter anywhere else; people bond fast. This time that's going to happen less since the people I more naturally am drawn to and who are my age are all leaving and it will be one other woman and 2 very young men and me. Until more people are admitted of course.

The dr. told me today that my pdoc has been "really worried about me. She keeps emailing me". He didn't sound thrilled about this. So now we know it wasn't her and I don't care if he felt annoyed about it all.