Wednesday, May 5, 2010
[Cinco de Mayo]
[1818 - Karl Marx, philosopher, writer, born in Trier, Germany]
[1867 - General Ignacio Zaragoza's outnumbered Mexican force defeats French army at Puebla]
[1867 - Nelly Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman), journalist, born in
Armstrong County, Pennsylvania]
[1890 - Christopher Morley, writer,
born in Haverford, Pennsylvania]
[1914 - Tyrone (Edmund) Power, Jr., actor, born
in Cincinnati, Ohio]
[1915 - Alice Faye (Alice Jeanne Leppert), actress,
singer, born in New York City]
[1942 - Tammy Wynette (Virginia Wynette Pugh),
Grammy Award-winning country singer,
born near Tremont, Mississippi]
[1961 - Commander Alan Shepard, Jr., USN, makes the first U.S. manned space flight]
Hospital signs are fraught with meaning.
Not all are benign (or even appealing).
For instance, What does "Discharge Pharmacy" mean? Is it meds for the home bound, or something obscene?
Is Nuclear Medicine a place you would choose to venture?
Or perhaps too radioactive sans lead clothing to enter.
Who would brave the Third Floor of one medical facility? Where reside Neurosurgery, Infusion Stations, and Oncology.
Of this simple fact you can be quite certain.
In traversing the ER, look not behind a curtain.
The Hospital with the sick and dying abounds. And only doctors 
get paid to make the rounds.
William's Whimsical Words:
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