Katy Community

Tonight I’m sitting in room 1406 at Texas Children’s Hospital, listening to my little girl sawing logs after a trying day fighting pneumonia and an ear infection, along with both the fever and the sweats. During the day you can watch all the busyness down below on the streets, as the cars, trains, buses and pedestrians make their way to wherever they are heading, paying little attention to one another. And since I fancy myself somewhat of an amateur photographer, I snapped off a couple of shots through the misty, rainy soaked windows that adorn my room. That all cleared up by the time the sun went down, and after playing with the dials on my camera I figured out how to fire off a nighttime shot that looked halfway decent. It all got me to wondering.

The Texas Medical Center is the largest of it’s kind in the World. People fly into this place from other Continents because we have the finest medical facilities available anywhere, at any price. And real estate down here is becoming scarce. So much so that they recently leveled one of the few remaining hotels in this area (that wasn’t all that old mind you) to make way for a new Women’s hospital from the TCH folks. So much so that most of the major hospitals in the medical center are building campuses in all directions out in the suburbs, one of those places being Katy.

In the past 10 years, and continuing on for the next five, we’ve seen Katy grow from needing one hospital (remember when it was just called Katy Hospital?) to being home to nearly a dozen. Off the top of my head I can think of Katy Memorial, Apex, Christus St. Catherine, MD Anderson, Texas Childrens, Methodist, St. Lukes, and Urgent Care Center.

Wouldn’t it be strange for Katy’s nightime skyline to one day look like this: