Ohanami at the Hospital: If She Can't Join Us, We Will Take It to Her

Ohanami at the hospital... On a covert operation, Liz and I stole some cherry blossoms off a tree, and smuggled in pizza for Tiffany in the hospital... Tiffany had to have surgery on a tendon that she cut, and in the Japanese way she had to be laid up in the hospital for a month. She had to live in the hospital for a nearly a month. It was scary, we likened it to the scene in Beatlejuice waiting room, where all the heads were shrinking. It was fun to go visit Tiffany in the hospital because she was the happening girl on the floor. Everyone was coming out of the woodoworks to visit her, and she was such a sport making friends and trying to make the best of a situation.

Here we are at our makeshift Ohanami party for Tiffany: Mel, Tiff, Liz, and me.
Due to the timing of Tiffany's surgery she was going to miss the whole cherry blossom viewing season in Japan. So we brought in the branches. The wild child also broke out a couple times, we had plans for a scheming escape, but she ended up just asking and getting official permission. She walked around the parties in her sylin' hospital pants. In the end she got released on the last day of the season, also just in time to go to Korea! (She told the doctor the day that they admitted her that the day after her initial official release date she was flying to Korea for a week, she said the doctor gave her a stern look)


that my friends, those two pizzas, that is $40 worth of pizza...hefty price huh? the movies cost $15
WE were told specifically that we were not allowed to bring her pizza (well they told Tiffany she couldn't order one) That the other patients would smell it and want it. WE told Tiffany we didn't care, we would smuggle it in, and if the other patients wanted some, if there was any left they could have it, but why don't they just order their own. People are always bringing in Fast food in there , we didn't see much difference.


she cut her tendon and had to be laid up in the hospital for four weeks- she got out a few days early, but her stay covered the duration of the cherry blossom viewing season... she busted out though and got to see it, and she also got to go to Korea with us, baby you rock...you can see her gory details on her blog... http://japanbystorm.blogspot.com