Now before you get too carried away, I did not have a baby!
I was not admitted because my wife had a baby.
There was no monstrous mistake.
It was not some grand practical joke.
But I swear I was genuinely admitted to a maternity ward.
It has to do with health authorities wanting to make a health buck go as far as possible. Their creative ideas put me in the maternity ward.
A few years ago my family doc decided that I should have sleep tests. A sleep test to determine if I had sleep apnea.
The good old health system had a plan. Since sleep tests are done at night and apparently babies come in the daytime , why not use the maternity ward for sleep tests. You stay over night and leave in the morning.
So there I was checking into the maternity ward at 8:00 PM.
I was expecting to find all kinds of new mothers inhabiting the ward. I wasn't sure I was going to like this.
The maternity ward was like a ghost town. They had no patients except on the second night there was one couple there in the evening.
So the sleep test people were wired up to the test apparatus and tucked into bed by 10:00 PM. Hoping people would sleep with wires attached from top to bottom was completely irrational. but I did stay in bed for the eight hour test.
I can't say that I had a good sleep but it was very quiet.
