Nurses, Bedpans And X-Rated Hospital Gowns (standard:Inspirational stories, 958 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: Mar 06 2005	Views/Reads: 10047/3943	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
Tuesday last I awoke from my nightly slumber with terrific pain in my chest, much like an elephant break-dancing on my chest. It was painful just to breathe, but like the trooper I am, I shrugged it off and set about my daily routine. Rather than improvin

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Normally I'm not a violent man. My philosophy is "live and let live."
However, hospital bedpans are not normal and are deliberately designed 
to malfunction every time. Don't ask me how I know, I just do. If not 
executed, then they should be confined to a hospital bed for the rest 
of their life and I have just the bedpan for them. 

The third thing I discovered in the hospital has to do with those
x-rated hospital gowns. They come in one-size-fits-all. That's all 
right if you happen to be 3'6." 

Unless a person is dyslexic, it takes no rocket scientist to see I am a
bit larger than 3'6." I just happen to be 6'3" and have never been 
mistaken for a midget. I have no idea what these so-called gowns were 
designed for but it was not for modesty. 

In fact, there is some evidence that patients in the psychiatric ward of
the hospital designed the hospital gown as a group therapy project. It 
has absolutely no practical - or impractical for that matter - purpose 
in this life. The hospital gown could be classified as the 
cross-purpose-driven garment. 

Several days have passed since leaving my hospital oasis, giving me some
time for reflection. The hardest thing for a person like me is to wait. 
I have my agenda and I dare the person to stand in my way. 

God, however, has devised marvelous ways of incorporating into our daily
regime opportunities to practice this illusive virtue. 

A passage from the Psalms keeps running through the back of my mind. "My
soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him. He only 
is my rock and my salvation: he is my defense; I shall not be moved. In 
God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my 
refuge, is in God. Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your 
heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah." (Psalms 62:5-8 KJV.) 

Nurses, bedpans and X-rated hospital gowns are not the real issues of a
hospital stay. Trusting God in adversity is the most important. 


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