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Otherwise, I tend to avoid the
Emergency Room unless I’m in a lot of pain and it’s outside of a doctor’s
normal hours. You hear of stats reporting that the vast majority of all
emergency room visits are not, in fact, emergencies. You don’t want to be the one sitting there
with a vague ache in the head while accident victims with seconds to live are
rushed past you and through several sets of double doors, as they always seem
to be on television ERs. Which always makes me wonder why they have so many
sets of double doors in Emergency Room buildings. Don’t you want to get people
through to the operating theatre quickly? Then build corridors with fewer sets of heavy metal doors,
for Christ’s sake.
Anyway, last Saturday morning I
had a pain in the left leg, which had been getting worse for four days. I thought
it was a football injury, but they usually get better when you apply muscle rub
and scoff ibuprofen. But this was keeping me awake all night, when I was
horizontal and restful, and it wasn’t just pain, it was ***ING PAIN. So bad
that I got out of bed and went straight to the ER.
But pain is like love, it’s not
always constant. By the time I got there, it had subsided.
