22) Ubuntu

Today was a chemo day for E. Instead of traveling to SickKids, we went to our satellite centre. While at SickKids, E receives care at the likely soon-to-be-renamed Sears cancer Clinic. POGO (Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario) has a Provincial Pediatric Oncology Satellite Program where some treatment is provided at a hospital closer to home. Our satellite centre is Scarborough Centenary.

To document something that likely amuses me and only me, for the third straight visit, the LCD on the machine at the parking gate was displaying the GRUB bootloader. Yup, the hospital, or company that administers the parking at the hospital runs Ubuntu, and the machine that controls the information display at the parking gate is stuck at the bootloader, waiting for input. I find it amusing to see the different places where Linux and open source software pops up.

The view from the 7th floor POGO clinic, facing north.

 
E has been fighting both a cold and Hand-Foot-Mouth disease, so we were quite surprised when bloodwork came back within normal ranges. They decided to proceed with chemo, so a dose of vincristine as well as a dose of methotrexate were administered. Shortly afterward, we were on our way home.