What a wonderful experience it is to step outside, as is your normal routine and literally eat the wood on your front porch. This is what happened to me two days ago when I fell and hit my head. Not super proud of it, but it’s a learning lesson that I still have a ways to go in regaining my physical fitness.
Subsequently, I went to the hospital because it was a head injury. You can see the lump on the side of my head and frankly it hurt a lot. When we arrived, Oh my goodness that emergency room was filled to the brim. Very few chairs remained vacant. One of the nurses commented on how it was a long wait when I checked in.
Ha ha, so much for no crowds.
It smelled and was full of people that were complaining about the long wait. I hate going to the hospital, but when I do it’s probably because something’s wrong. I don’t frequent spaces like that because, well, they’re uncomfortable frankly. And then to be sitting a row from a woman who is cloaked in a sheet, hacking up a lung, and puking into a bag. It made my skin crawl. And so I plugged in my AirPods and listened
to some music to take my mind off of the scene. (It’s Kacey Musgraves by the way.)
After nearly 2 hours in the waiting room to which I saw many faces come in and out, I was taken back to a room where thankfully I was attended to fairly quickly. But I was diagnosed with a mild concussion and sent home to ice the wound and take Tylenol. I was released without any kind of scan whatsoever, with merely a light shown in my eyes to see if my pupils dilated. And they did thankfully.
But the experience of being in there just left me desiring for a different setting. And my head really does hurt. Gee, I love you American healthcare system.
(I do not own the rights to this music)
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