Strange Things that happened

Once, when the medical staff in reanimation were working on Giuseppe, Forman turned around and said: 'Okay, House, it is your call.' I looked over and Dr. House was not there. Then part of my mind said that it was not real, and that I should open my eyes. So I did. It was not real. I realized then how powerful morphine is.

Speaking of being in reanimation, I remember at one point waking up and feeling fairly lucid, and being aware that I was in reanimation, and then the lucidity started to slip. I decided that the reanimation must be working to re animate some of the old Disney cartoons, and that was why I was sometimes acting so, um, Goofy. So even when I was out of it, at least I had my puns.

I stopped by reanimation before I left the hospital, because I wanted to see what it looked like, if my memory had changed it at all. I remembered a large, cavernous room, with high ceilings, and room for three beds, each one having tons of neat electrical medical looking machinery. When I stopped back, I found out it was a small room, with barely space for three beds, although each did have tons of equipment. I think the morphine helped it grow.

More than once I would decide that since I could not sleep, I might as well read in bed. I would pick up the book I was reading, or start a new one, and get about thirty pages in, and decide that it was not the book I expected it to be. Part of me told myself that I was not reading, but I knew I was. So part of me said that I should feel with my fingers, to see if I was holding a book. I was not. Then that part of me told me to open my eyes. No book. It passed the time for me, I guess, until I could start on the books I had brought with me to read.