Remember when hospitals were no fun?
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By the time I was 15 years old, I can only recall one or two trips to stay in the hospital… I didn’t really start falling apart until I hit my 30’s. 
Back in my day, hospitals were absolutely NO FUN at all. I’m pretty sure that fact had to have been written somewhere in The Official Rules Of Hospital Conduct.
Thou shalt be dull and boring so as to drive children out of their minds. This will prevent the desire to return to this dreadful place.
Not only was their nothing to do, but they didn’t hire a nurse until she was at least 150 years old.
Seriously, we were lucky to have The Big Three networks (no such thing as FOX, or UPN, and cable was but a far away dream).
Arkansas Children’s Hospital, on the other hand, seems to have broken all these rules. Not only did my daughter have access to GameBoys, Playstations, and a Wii, but if I had found this sale soon enough, before my finances went to Hell in a Handbasket, I could have handed her the entire original Star Trek series on DVD for her viewing pleasure.
Go ahead. Laugh at me. Call me a geek. I think this young lady sitting here crying about how her back hurts could use a good dose of Spock from the episode Operation Annihilate, “Pain is a thing of the mind. The mind can be controlled. There is no pain.”
Words to live by.
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Those last words are words to live by. And that does sound like an exciting hospital!
I’ve decided that in the unfortunate event that any of my children have to be hospitalized again, I’m going tom do my best to see that they end up at Arkansas Children’s Hospital.