Word: beepings
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...next barrier to my rest was the methodically beeping noise that emanated from an machine which, as far as anyone there knew, served no purpose other than to keep me awake. I asked them to turn it off, and was stunned to find that there was no rule against this. I guess they were confident that they had enough other rules which would keep me awake without having to worry about the extra assurance of a beep machine...
...Indeed a beep machine seemed superfluous considering someone had already installed a phone by the empty bed beside me which kept on ringing with calls for someone named "Herman." The telephone lay just out of my reach, waiting silently for the precise moment of my dream when the girl comes in. Then it would ring, I would jump, and some nimrod on the other end would ask for "Herman" or hang up at the sound of my enraged greeting. I thought maybe the nurses were calling the number and then laughing hysterically when I answered. I asked for the extra...
...beep machine was soon neutralized, the telephone was buried under a pillow and--by my best calculations--my next blood pressure reading was at least half an hour away. I was ecstatic--20 minutes of glorious sleep seemed to lay ahead. But it was not to be, for Marian was missing...
...Beep. System Bomb. O.K.?" smiles...
...would walk around the hospital with a beeper, and when they'd get a patient who spoke only Spanish, they'd beep me, and I'd go and translate," Gordon says. "I learned how to say things like bowel movement and catheter in Spanish...