A Room with a View, Please....

An AirCare Medevac, based in Manassas, arrives at the Hospital

Spending time in a hospital room for hours a day can be kind of monotonous.  I can't imagine spending 24 hours a day there, with most of that in your hospital bed.  But Lisa was fortunate when she was admitted; she got a single room (which is rare when you are first admitted), and she got a room with a decent view.  If you've never been to Fairfax Hospital, its a massive complex of towers and buildings.  I frequently hear employees tell people who have made the mistake of coming in the Women and Children's Tower instead of the Cardiac Tower that the walk ahead of them could approach 40 minutes. 

A LifeEvac Helicopter, based in Stafford, brings a patient to Fairfax

With all of these buildings, towers and parking garages, its pretty easy to imagine that most windows offer views of concrete and other buildings.  Lisa's room faces out towards Gallows Road, and the Exxon Mobile complex across the street.  We can't see the complex, just the woodland region that surrounds it, giving it the appearance of looking out into a forest.  But you really can't see much except the tops of the trees from her windows. 

A few times a day during the weekdays, and sometimes non-stop on the weekends, we watch Medevac helicopters bringing patients into and out of the hospital.  The two pictures in this blog post were actually taken about five minutes apart over the weekend.  I'm cognizant that each of these flights in and out of the hospital area a big deal, and hopefully mean more lives saved than lost.  If not seeing them meant no one was sick, injured or in danger, then of course I'd be happy to see them go.  But as long as they are going to fly into the hospital, facing their incoming flight path gives us something interesting to look at a few times a day!