Woke up around 6 am according to my Fitbit. The nurse, Jenny, brough me my meds and took my vitals around 7 am. Breakfast as 8 am. I was feeling ok despite the episode of nausea the night before. I had a bowel movement just before Maureen showed up 10:15 for the joint OT/PT Caregiver sessions scheduled for the morning. It started with Lauren, the OT who had essentially nothing to say that we didn’t already know, but kept talking anyway. She was interrupted by nurse Jenny coming in to say that they were sending me back to MGH. They were worried about the infection but were holding off on prescribing antibiotics. Maureen left to go home. I was transferred to a stretcher and went by ambulance to MGH. It was a very quick ride; I was at MGH before Maureen had reached home. I was transferred to another stretcher, checked in at the Emergency Room, and got a bunch more blood tests. Maureen got here at MGH around 3 pm and stayed here while I and had multiple x-rays and was examined by Thomas Heyne. Turned out he had spent a year at Oxford at St. Cross. Since they did not have a bed available to admit me I was  moved to a different section, the Flex area, room 75 – a tiny cubicle with a curtain to divide me from the main area. No window of course. I got two IVs, one in the thumb side of left wrist, for the cephalic vein, and the other in the hollow area inside the right elbow, for the cubital vein. They started giving me two broad spectrum antibiotics: vancomycin and cefepime. I was still in the ER at 9:30 pm, and it seemed unlikely that I would get a bed that evening.