HOSPITAL: Right Back Where We Started From...

Man, oh, man.
Can my life suck anymore?

After enjoying and celebrating a whole day of our newly won health, my body decided that I needed to add yet another disease I have not caught previously under my belt: pneumonea.
As if catching an old person's disease isn't enough, I ended up going on a coughing rampage, which resulted in low oxygen saturation, which then caused my lips/arms/legs to go numb, which landed me in an emergency room.

Those of you who know where I live, I happen to belong to the healthcare network that has the worst emergency care imaginable. Yeah, that one! While our dear friend, Janice, stayed with the boys, Rachid and I waited at the lobby patiently, had a couple more breathing attacks, waited some more, whitnessed a suicide-attempt patient get wheeled in, breathed in who knows what, waited even more not so patiently, took a nap, started to feel better... and... walked out. Without even seeing a doctor after 3 1/2 hours of waiting and waiting and waiting.

As we walked toward our car in a half empty parking lot, Rachid promised me that he'd either shoot me or shoot me up with something if I ever have to go back to that ER in our future.


Pucker and his soda-bottle penguin, Fire Louis

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