Strange Place

this past week my brother was rushed to the hospital because he was having horrible pain in his stomach. i found out tuesday night after class. i didn't think much of it. This kid always claims to be in pain.. I love him to death.. don't get my wrong but he can be a little dramatic. He is the "baby" in the family. Around 12pm my mother said they were keeping him for the night because it was in fact a serious thing. I was shocked. My mom asked me to run a few things up to the hospital. It was Underwood Memorial in Woodbury. Last time I was at this place I was in 5th grade. This is my strange place because boy did I see some strange people. As I parked in the emergency ward which is off to the side of the building I noticed a bunch of "hood rats" so to speak hanging out smoking.. at the hospital.. seriously? it's midnight I was scared they were going to mug me and of course all I had was my totally cute coach wristlet. As I walked into the waiting room I noticed a little girl holding a bag of what was her own vomit. A man complaining about his broken leg.. which he was walking on to get doritos out of the vending machine and a heavy set woman who  was probably my age or a little older who was screaming about something. I immediately walked up to the security guard and asked to see my brother. The security guard was nice looking but he told me it was his first night and he wasn't exactly sure where my brother was but led me in a good direction. Can I tell you there are some strange people in the emergency room! My brother was lying on the bed in pain. He had just drank some liquid that made his organs glow. They couldn't figure out what was going on with him. There was a man next door who kept repeating a story over and over and over again and using the same foul language each time he said the story. My mom said she was so tired of hearing this story. There was a woman who we couldn't figure out if it was a man or a woman. The three of us kept making bets and every time she walked by we stared at her and tried to hear a voice.. we never did find out. I think it was a man dressed up as a woman. It was quite an experience. The hospital is a lot different from when I was there all those years ago and maybe it had some crazy people back then but I was too young to notice. It was definitely an experience. After 4 days in the hospital and major surgery (my brother had blockage in his small intestine and his colon was inflamed) They thought he had crohn's disease. We found out today that he does not have it and he j