My Hospital Visit

I had quite a bad mishap yesterday.  I found myself in the hospital for a few hours, but I am doing fine now.  Thanks to my neighbor for filling people in on what happened to me yesterday.  And an order of thanks for crossing out where I keep my passwords for this blog, my Facebook page, and my banking records.

The longest part of yesterday’s ordeal was the wait in the waiting room.  The hospital had a policy of taking people according to the severity of the injury.  They claim that a boy with “multiple aortic lacerations” was a higher priority than a person with a possible concussion.  They also took the woman who lost her pinky even though she wasn’t bleeding and her pinky was seperated from her hand.

I was finally checked five hours after I came in.  The doctor asked a few questions, shone a flashlight in my eyes, and let me go.  I asked him if I was entitled to any medication.  He told me to rest for the rest of the evening and I should be fine tomorrow (which is now today).

The hospital bill was $1500.  I started feeling sick.  my head was pounding.  I realized that my wallet was at home because I forgot to put it in the pants pocket I was wearing after showering.  I also had no way home since I forgot my cell phone and my car was at home.  It was dark and cold when I finally got back home.

I basically have today and tomorrow to do a week’s worth of work.  There will be time in there to fight the cost of the doctor hovering the light from a flashlight over my eyes.