a few notes on visiting

I forgot to mention -- all hours are visiting hours at Select Specialty. :) If you arrive after 8 pm (or before 5 am), you'll need to use the ER entrance, and get a visitor's pass by talking to the guard on duty there, but that's about it.

If you're reading or talking to Dad, try to speak up a bit -- we've noticed that the neurosurgeon, when asking Dad to do something like keep his eye open, speaks very loudly right into his ear.

A few of Dad's visitors have left some reading material in the room, including a number of Guideposts magazines and a book of Robert Frost's poems: thank you!! Feel free to bring your own, of course, or just chat about your day. We also have a CD player in the room -- if it's too loud when you come in, feel free to pause it or turn it down. In a couple of days we should have a DVD player in there too, and same goes --feel free to pause it when you come in, and hit play on your way out.