Finding patience as a patient

An update on my first month in hospital

As a kid I had a lot of surgeries to reinforce and strengthen my bones. Every time I broke my arm or leg—which happened as often as once a year—my orthopaedic surgeon would use the fracture as an opportunity to go in to replace the stainless steel rod inside the bone as I grew.

Even with all those broken bones and surgeries, I was never in hospital for m…