Grace
I’m on five-minute checks. That’s as low as they go. I don’t know what happens below that threshold, but I’m told they increase in five-minute increments with good behavior. I’m still sitting at five because, as the nurse explains, that’s what my orders say. She’s not the same woman who showed me to this room. The nurse says that was an administrator.
There’s an awful lot to learn about who is who and what is what, which is pretty hard to do when you’re confined to one room. I don’t even know who writes the orders, but the nurse assures me everything will get sorted out soon enough.
who One can only hope.
In the meantime, every five minutes, a nurse or an orderly will unlock the door, peek his or her head in and call out, “Five minute check.”
I don’t know why they can’t simply l
