by Richard Anderson
July 5, 2009

Last week my current wife got out of hospital after hip replacement surgery. I visited her every day during her 3-day stay and at times, I felt I was reliving one of the many hospitalizations my first wife endured.

I can make comparisons for myself and how I was feeling, then and now; but it doesn™t help one to make comparisons between ill partners.  Everyone has their story to tell, if only there is someone to listen.

And I discovered this, as I was leaving the hospital, the night before my wife was due to go home. By pure coincidence, just as I was getting on the 5th-floor elevator a woman came along, so I held the door open for her.

She was wearing a robe over the hospital