Getting caught in that second geyser is pure nightmare material.

Back from solo ER visit. I wish my psychological makeup allowed me to accept more help, but if things were that easy, there'd be no money in the psy-s.

Can you believe no one ever asked me how much pain I was in? Suddenly I was living bits of that article you posted, tommy. I mean, race aside. I think.

No one asked how much pain I was in, no one could agree on what meds I'd been given or remained to be given, or how much (and even when they discovered they were contradicting each other, no one came back and told me the right answer).

It's okay. Calm and cleansing breaths, plus applesauce for dinner. And lots and lots of recorded TV.

I wish I could send you my aunts' homemade applesauce, but I don't think it would survive the trip.

Huh. I actually got a lot done today. Unpacked my last box of paperbacks and got them shelved, bought a runner carpet for my living room and some magnetic picture frames for the fridge, took some kitchen chairs over to my mom's, and assembled the architect's desk that's been sitting in a box since my last move.

Obama hasn't done anything. He hasn't shown he'll be able to manuever in Congress, or exhibit statecraft. Zip. He's a freshman Senator. Being smart isn't enough. I don't want somebody learning on the job in the White House.

I would think the people who elected him to be a senator would be rather peeved at having elected a presidential candidate instead.

Tonight's "Simpsons" is hysterical.

Can you believe no one ever asked me how much pain I was in?

Ugh. Might it be possible to get some kind of document from the good ER doctor that says, "this is ita and this is what you need to do for her." A note in your records perhaps. It is so wrong to have to go through the whole thing with them every time. You have a record with them; they could read it. Um, I hope at the very least the recorded tv is satisfying.

I would think the people who elected him to be a senator would be rather peeved at having elected a presidential candidate instead.

It is my understanding that he is very heavily supported locally. (Localistas may correct me here) I thought his constituents have been calling for higher office since day one.

I would think the people who elected him to be a senator would be rather peeved at having elected a presidential candidate instead.

Not from where I'm sitting. People were already talking about when he could run before the Senate race was over.

ita, happy belated! I'm sorry you had to go through all this again this weekend. What is wrong with those people?

A note in your records perhaps.

There's this.

they could read it

And then there's this.

My mandated protocol is on file--it's been successfully retrieved a number of times. Suddenly they can't find it anymore. Then there's the record of the last time I was in and was given the standard protocol. Unreliable, it seems. Given it by a doctor also working today. Who I'd ask to talk to my ER doctor, except they keep cancelling my nurse pages.

This doctor wasn't actually going to give me any painkillers past steroids, and that was after asking if steroids had worked in the past (she was answered "no"). The nurse kept referring to dilaudid as "what you wanted, right?"

It is all very well set up. That's just not enough.

As for the election stuff, can you guys elect a good one this time?

Signed,
The Disenfranchised.

Oh, I just finally looked at my stack of mail and my sample ballot is in there. The candidates are in alpha order. We have a big property tax amendment on the ballot this time, so that should help turnout.

Earlier today I had an email looking for my signature on a petition to get this amendment on the ballot. Guess they won't be needing that! (I did sign a couple years ago, this email stuff goes round forever)

"what you wanted, right?"

No. What is wanted is relief, and people doing their jobs. I'm so sorry you have to deal with idiocy on top of pain.