Night on the ward

My sleep may have started at 9:30pm, but it was soon disturbed by the goings-on on the ward. Considering there were only three others in the room, they all had their own particular way of ensuring my sleep was broken. It has to be said at this point, however, that I had my own way too as I snore like a moose when asleep (certainly not when I'm awake though).

It was the music that got to me first. The opening four notes of Magic Roundabout: da-da-da-da ... da would normally follow. What's that? Oh, it's some instrumentation saying that it needs checking. The guy next to me was constantly monitored with drains in his leg and he was the most musical of all. He also had Mungo Jerry's In the Summertime which I think was the blood pressure monitor because we all had that set of notes at various times in the night.