Thelongcorridor, with the nurses' station between the wards, was empty at dawn, too early for the smell of breakfast, for the morning nursing staff to click up and down the corridors with trays of thermometers and medicines, even for the bedpans, which were my responsibility.
And slowly I stood up and looked at others starting to make their way down a longcorridor to the common area where we had all watched the beginnings of football season just a few days before.