Tuesday, April 22, 2014

not quite awake yet

On Saturday, I was napping on the couch in my house.  I dreamed that I was in the resident room in the hospital, talking about my patients to the residents who were coming on the next shift.  I had been reading a ton of Game of Thrones wiki the day before.  One of my patients was Robert Baratheon, a Game of Thrones character, who is in the hospital because he has pneumonia, the same type I had.


I woke up and mistook my housemate Kevin as a resident I was talking to in the resident room.

Elaine: "What happened to Robert Baratheon?"
Kevin: "Who?"
Elaine thinks, "It doesn't make sense that Robert Baratheon, a fictional character, would be on my service.  I must have remembered the patient's name wrong or something."
Me: "You know, the patient who has a cough, the same type of cough as me."
Kevin: "Come again?"
Me [confused and groggy]: "Do we have any patients right now?"
Kevin: "Well I don't know about you, but I don't."

It took me some more time to register that Kevin is not a doctor, and therefore he does not have any patients.  I then concluded that since I am currently on vacation, that I don't have any patients either.  I can't quite remember what happened after that, but I think I went back to sleep.



The next day I asked Kevin about the conversation and he said he was really confused.

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