Hospital 3 -- So Far, So Good

Chaplain came out with an update while I was getting coffee: the work is done and Mom's successfully off the heart-lung machine.

Surgeon is closing and will be out in an hour or so to give us the lay-language debriefing.

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In other news, the "Starbucks" coffee at St. Vincent's Heart Hospital borders on undrinkable. I got 2/3 of a cup and topped it up with half-and-half; this produces merely double-strength coffee, almost like what you'd get at a regular drive-by Starbucks. So what gives, does just any outfit who will fork over the bucks and buy their beans get to sell whatever they brew as "Starbucks?" Cle-ver. I'd thought they at least had the virtue of consistency.

Lacking that, gimme a restaurant-grade Bunn kept clean and bought-in-bulk generic ground coffee, please. At least it won't eat through the cup. It's good enough for the Navy!