Waiting for a Room

I spend the rest of the night laying in bed waiting for a room. My wife stays with me through most of the night, trying to keep my spirits up. I doing ok as long as I don't move my right leg and hip. The doctor hasn't given me any medication for pain. I don't get any sleep as I am in some kind of area were they bring in patients to work on them from the emergency room. There is a lot of activity going on. I hear nurses, doctors, and technicans walking around. The lights are on. I hear beds being wheeled around. I hear the beeps from the hospital machines. It is a long night but not painful. My wife stays with me to at least 4 a.m. and then leaves. She comes back in the early morning around 7 a.m. to see how I'm doing. Around 8 a.m. I finally get the word that a room has opened up on the surgery floor and they wheel me up to room 344.