Well, it never seems to amaze me that with all the technology in medicine- it still takes 5 hours at an emergency room just to have blood work and pain medication dispensed. Most people have never ever been to an emergency room, but Gabe and I seem to visit one on a yearly basis. This time it was Gabe! This week he pressure washed our deck and stained it (with the help of Gabriel and a neighbor friend, Justin). It looks very nice..(as soon as I have a picture of it, I will put it on my blog). But it seems he overdid himself... He pulled some muscles in his lower back and at 3:30 am this morning was in so much pain I had to basically "carry" him to the car because he could not move without being in extreme pain. You may be wondering what I did with our children? Our wonderful friend, Kelly came right over and sacked out on the couch.
The emergency room didn't look that busy, but it was 2 hours before we saw a doctor who was with us for about 10 minutes and said he will be back with pain medicine and a nurse to do blood work. She didn't come in for another 1 1/2 hours. Meanwhile, I am irritated and Gabe is extremely uncomfortable (Have you ever noticed emergency room beds are not made for comfort???) She came in gave Gabe some pain medication and drew some blood work and said she will send it "right" up to the lab and it should be another 30 minutes. 1 1/2 hours later, she still had not returned and I left to go home and relieve Kelly so she could go home to her children. Gabe called me 40 minutes later to tell me he was being discharged. He is now recuperating at home drugged up on muscle relaxers and pain medication.
It's funny, I thought I wouldn't have anything to "blog" about, but I was wrong! I should have used my phone camera to take a picture of him in his cute little hospital gown.....NOT!!!!
4 comments:
Hey Randi!! I'm so glad you "jumped on the bandwagon"!! Now we can peer into YOUR lives :)
Funny story, Randi, who would've thought your material would come from sources other than the kids! : ) Tell Gabe we hope he's feeling better!
Hi Randi,
Nice blog! How did you get the nice picture at the top? I didn't think you knew how to do that. ;-)Did the cord work in your camera? I have another one that you can try. Talk to you soon!
SO Randi being a nurse I will have to share with you some secrets about how to get quicker service in the ER. Maybe I will post it so everyone can check it out. I work on it so since you seem to spend alot of time there the past couple of years maybe it will help. Thanks for getting this started I am enjoying it so far.
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