…The blue print was very detailed for the renovation of the fourth floor of the Brush Building. What my boss wanted me to see was the protocol of this project. What contractors were coming in to do what, the time frames, what order they were being completed in and the companies they represented. It looked like they had hoped to complete this project within a six month period. They were all the leading medical equipment companies of the time. The telemetry would be state of the art. I would have to follow a flow chart of what would be taking place first. The unit was officially closed and staff were relocated to other areas of the medical center. All the equipment and hospital beds were moved into storage. I had signed off on that being completed earlier.
…The hospital’s Master Electrician would be coordinating all the needed electrical hookups with the medical equipment companies, where they would be located, what would be needed, and the placement of telemetry monitors at the nursing station. That work only took a couple of days and the new monitoring systems were in place. The technicians were in the process of testing them when my boss met me on the unit to go over the work schedule. He let me know they were right on schedule and a maintenance crew would be installing vinyl wall coverings through all the patient rooms, corridors and ancillary areas. Once that was completed, hand rails would be installed as well. I would be at the medical center Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights. He wanted me to keep track of how much was being completed, and call him if progress was not being made. He expected the work to be completed Sunday night.
…This didn’t seem too complicated. and there would be a maintenance supervisor on site as well. Once the wall vinyl and the hand rails were installed, a general cleanup would be required before any further work on the unit would be completed. I understood my assignment and was given a list of monitors to check off as being installed. I was to check to see if they could be turned on and off from the Nursing station as well. That list was to be left in my supervisors office at the end of the night initialed by me as being completed. Again, any problems I was to notify him. He didn’t want any surprises in the morning. I had quite the work load. I had to make sure that the monitors were all working, or at least had power going to the unit when tuned on, and be controlled from the nursing station as well.
..I began checking the monitors at the furthest end of the corridor, and it was there I found a car key chain with the letter Z and numbers 280 laying on the floor under one of the rooms heating elements. I knew immediately what car this went to. A 1975 Datsun 280 Z. I figured the owner would be up here very soon to retrieve these and I was absolutely correct. One of the young technicians, looking quite flushed and agitated met me in the corridor. He didn’t have to say anything I knew what he wanted but I still had to ask him.
…”Did you forget something?” He was quick to respond. “You didn’t happen to find a set of keys?” I questioned whether there was any identifying features on the keys just to be on the safe side. He was quick to inform me that the letter Z and numbers 280 was on the ring. I showed him the keys and his face lit up as he smiled. I informed him that him and I needed to have a coffee together. I have questions, and one of them would be how a technician can afford to drive a Datsun 280 Z? He was more than happy to oblige me, and off to the hospital’s coffee shop we went. My Life’s Journey To Be Continued...Psalm 103
