I have been off the grid so to speak for a week. It was a really not fun week. I want to write about it a little, but I also need to keep in mind this is a publicly visible site. Lets just say I had the biggest medical scare in my entire life. I am fine, really but if what happened to me happened to a friend I wouldn’t believe them. It all started with some dizziness, and ended with a hospital stay. All I can say is you cannot get any sleep in a hospital. I felt worse when I left than when I got there.
I really want to write more about what is going on, but reality is I have said enough publicly. This is the perfect example of this blog not being an accurate representation of my life since I almost didn’t mention this key event at all. I would rather stick to more uplifting topics. On the possitive note I would have gone crazy without my iPhone to read stuff and listen to music while I was away from home. I guess that means I wasn’t really off the grid, but I didn’t check work email for a full week so maybe it does count.
Highlights from the week, and observations:
• ER the show might not be that accurate about the medical procedures they perform (or so my dad says) but the controlled chaos of the ER is well portrayed. While I was in the ER a fight broke out between two patients. It was interesting to say the least.
• Do they really have to wake you every few hours to take your temp and blood pressure? Probably yes, but it really sucks when you are trying to sleep.
• MRI’s are really loud even when you have ear plugs and head phones for music in your ears
• Some of the die they gave me for a scan made me feel like my hands were on fire.
• The entire hospital is dependent on the transport staff to move people around. The reason things take so long is because said staff is really slow either because they are slow or overworked. The operations side of me observed that. Also you don’t hold staff meetings for an entire shift that everyone depends on at the same time. You break it up. Again my ops side talking.
I am off to continue my resting before I am back to work tomorrow.