The Road

I often visit our patients at the hospital or at their homes (if they have one) to see how they are doing. I will see them on the street or at the Martin De Porres soup kitchen. I never quite know what to expect.....

I have had a patient offer me weed and asked me on a date for chicken and waffles 

I have had a patient run out of his room with no pants on (or underwear) to change his cat's liter box

But I have also...

Visited a patient in the hospital who was bone thin and being worked-up for leukemia. 

I have seen patients curled up on the streets in the freezing rain. Another, in the hospital detoxing from alcohol and on so much ativan she didn't know where she was. 

Like I said,  you never know what to expect, and you never know what emotion is going to hit you next.......