Adventures at the ER Part 1

This is a repost of a blog I had previously posted on Myspace. It was December 31, 2006

Ok...For those who live in the area- GO TO GAINESVILLE OR JACKSONVILLE IF YOU ARE INJURED!!

My clutz ass took the fast way to the bottom of the stairs yesterday...then went out to the Waldo Dirt Mall for a few hours. Then lunch. By the time I got home, my foot was pretty darn swollen. And the baby needed a diaper change. And there were none in the house (because in my pain, I had forgotten to buy some). So after getting both kids unbuckled, and carting the baby and her associated paraphanilia up the stairs into the house (which there are only 4, but felt like 400) I had to go BACK outside to get the one diaper I had left in the car.

So I hung out till hubby got home at 4 and sent him to the store for diapers (with the baby just in case she needed changing again). When he got home from that, I was in severe pain. So off we go to Shands at Starke.

I guess we got there at about 6 PM. Signed in, went to triage then got bumped to the waiting room. As I was limping from the triage area, someone finally offered me a wheelchair (Which was kinda cool at first, but got pretty uncomfortable after a while). And we waited and waited and waited. Finally at 7ish hubby took the girls for McD's and brought me some back (which I had to eat outside). I guess it was 8 something when he finally took the girls over to my Aunt's. Thank goodness because they were bouncing off the walls.

So finally, after 30 minutes of the 5th Element, all of Sleepy Hollow and most of Enough(thankfully someone had turned the TV to TNT and they had movies on)I was wheeled back to the ER (Hubby was sentenced to more waiting room). Where I got parked in the hall. And waited. And watched and listened to the nurses chit chat.

FINALLY, Dr. Pete (Gianas to anyone not raised up in the area) took a look, wrenched my foot around and offered me pain pills and X-rays. I was definately up for the pain pills (tramador or something like that...mom says heavy duty stuff, 2 of them). So just when the meds are kicking in, i get to take a trip to X-ray. Thankfully, George didn't have to wrench my foot so much, in fact he didn't even get me out of the chair!

So back to the hall for me. At least this time they let hubby come back. So like five minutes after I'm back, another nurse comes up with another 2 of the same pills. Of course the first dose is kicking in and I'm feeling a little drunk so I know I looked at her like she had two heads and said I already got some of those (dummy, I know I should have taken them, but I didn't want to be comatose). So she says are you sure you already had them? DUH, it's my foot that's broke, not my brain, jackass. SO Yes. And she says who gave them to you?? (I guess they are pill pushers there at SAS) I say, the nurse with the Crocs. Turns out, Croc hadn't noted that she gave them to me in my chart and Questions was just doing what the chart says. Now I don't think a double dose of this would have taken me out of the game of life, but hey more powerful stuff...who knows.

So next I get a splint and crutches. Oh that was fun. I haven't walked on crutches before. And I get an audience at my debut! Now I'm the one getting the "are you mental?" looks. So I say are we done? And off we go.

I'm feeling somewhat better today, but have 48 hours of elevation and ice packs. But at least I have a Lortab perscription to fill. Is that better than percocet? I hope so. I'm almost out of percocet :)