Waiting for surgery

There's not a whole lot of waiting room at St Stephens although my parents and hubby did wait there for me as we had a bit of a mix up on the day where my hubby and mum both had to have fasting blood tests that very morning and my step dad had to run me in for the early appointment. The general outpatients room is quite large with quite a few chairs but it has a sign requesting only one family member. I doubt they enforce it as its kind of an open room with corridors on two sides and your daughter could pop off down to the cafeteria for a walk if the room got crowded. There were only a handful in the waiting room both day. I imagine if they get an emergency and a big backlog of patients waiting then that's when they would get worried. First op hubby wasn't allowed in the prep room, but second op he was. He stayed with me the whole time until the anaestatist took me away. I really needed his support for the second op as I wasn't real brave that one.