On Thursday afternoon I ended up going to Urgent Care. They did the X-ray (no arthritis) but sent me home with no help for pain or sleeping. I had slept 1 hour Wednesday night from 4AM – 5AM.
On Friday morning I cancelled all my helpers, found a ride, and went to the ER, hoping for further imaging. I arrived at 7:40AM. That began the ordeal. It seems they had just opened this fancy new addition this week to the ER, but were not ready for patients, being “short a pod” meaning they had fewer beds.
So I sat until 12:20PM along with several other women, all of whom were in obvious pain, for many hours.
This is where I was taken: a chair that didn’t recline in a curtained cubicle measuring 6’ x 8’. There was NO equipment at all or supplies. They had crammed 4 of these in what had been 1 room in the old ER.
I was given a shot that soon eased the pain and was home again by 2:40PM. Oh, the bliss! No pain! I fell asleep on the couch for 2 hours. Ate supper and then went to bed at 8PM.
The amaryllis that flowered back in May has had a very rough summer. It was knocked over and many of its leaves died. But it soon put out a flowerstalk and started growing new leaves. The buds have opened, all 4 of them.
So pretty!
Abandoned cat
Larry hates it when I am gone for hours and I was certainly gone all day on Friday.
Shortly after I got home on Friday the wood guy called and another load was on its way. So my son has another 1.5 cords of wood to stack in the shed.
I was supposed to go to an estate sale on Friday afternoon and had to cancel. And on Saturday there was a huge yard sale I’d planned to go to, but that’s a non-starter also. Sigh…
If I am up to it, I need to pick peas. Broccoli should have been done this week and was not. I don’t want to see what shape it’s in… The kitchen is a disaster as I haven’t been able to stand all week. Somehow I must clean it up so I can do peas.
I was told to use some of the stuff I had tried that didn’t work for the pain. I’ve not much hope for any of that. My doctor is gone until then 23rd, but I doubt I can get in before the end of the month.
So I’m a bit of a mess right now…