In media res

[mrissa]

And that's how I ended up driving timprov to the emergency room at 2:30 this morning.

Problem diagnosed (related to treatment of ongoing condition), patient released, both of us home. I'm eating breakfast before I try going back to bed, in hopes that that will help. I'm expecting the end of the adrenaline to come around the time the end of my breakfast does.

Not specifying the problem for his privacy but also because I'm not in the mood to hear whose mother's third cousin had something like that and what they did about it.

Fairview Ridges nurses, as usual, rock.

E. Nesbit was just the right thing for me to read in the little ER examining room while he was off having tests done.

Sleep would be good, though. I approve of sleep, in theory, and I welcome the opportunity to examine the practical aspects more closely.

This is so much better than last winter's trip to their ER, I can't even begin to say.

Comments

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

I am glad that you had the energy (even if adrenaline-driven) to drve him in, and of course that this trip was better than the last. But here's hoping that E. Nesbit and all other authors can be saved for happier purposes from here one out. (Rather: I should stop trying and failing to be clever and just wish you all no more ER visits. I'd hate for you to be there with nothing to read!)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I would have found the energy even in the middle of my Year of Sick. Sometimes you dig deep.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

I know you would. But it's a lot nicer if an emergency leaves you with enough reserve strength to deal with whatever comes after the acute phase, and it's got to be nice (or at least somewhat less awful) to drive the the emergency room without having to think "must...not...pass..out" on the way, since generally in that situation you've already got too much to worry about.

[callunav.livejournal.com]

Problem diagnosed, patient released, both of you going home = good. Also good nurses and E. Nesbit.

As always, in a perfect world, we wouldn't be needing to compare your midwinter trips to the ER, but that's not the world we live in, and we'll take what we can get, here.

I'm glad nothing was worse, and hope you have/had a safe drive home and some sleep when you got there.

[redbird]

Back home, breakfast, and bed seem excellent.

Nurses who rock are excellent, as is an ER that has him in, diagnosed, treated, and released in under three hours. (My only experience with a Minneapolis ER was similarly good; I accompanied someone else who fell and, it turned out, had broken her arm, and they were similarly competent and efficient.)

[scottjames.livejournal.com]

Sorry you had to go, but glad the problem worked itself out by the end. Now try to get some sleep.

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

My mother's third cousin had tests done!

...sorry. :-)

But I am seriously glad that he's getting good care for whatever it is. Now you just care for the whole lack of sleep thing!

[songwind.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Sorry to hear about your rough night, but glad to know it wasn't something that had to hang onto him for.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I had a great aunt who would never say what the problem was for that exact reason.

B

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Hee!

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

i bet amputation of the affected part would fix it.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Well, yikes. Glad things went as well as they did, anyway; while being very sorry there were things that had to go in the first place.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Sleep well.

(The sleep-well is moss-edged stone,
In a glade of snug linen-trees,
In a meadow blanketed with flowers.
The bucket's creak is a lullaby.
The water is balm to weariness.
It tastes of rock and night and moon-clouds.
It brings sweet rest and good waking.
May you find it soon,
May all those who press past the rim of tiredness
Sight it at last, waking or dreaming, drink of the sleep-well,
And sleep well.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Ohh, lovely.

I'm afraid I found the nap well, which is much more efficient and with fewer flowers and more prickly weeds.

[mkille.livejournal.com]

Ack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[miz-hatbox.livejournal.com]

No! Yikes!

But I'm glad it was better than last time and "both of us home" is always a great ending to that sort of outing.

Take care and get some rest, both of you.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Ow. Bad: on both fronts.

I'm glad it was dealt with so relatively quickly, and hope you both get some good sleep.

[retrobabble.livejournal.com]

Eeep. Glad you're both back home. Embrace the sleeeeeeep.

[greykev.livejournal.com]

best wishes to the timprov and to you!

Ooh! instead of well-intentioned advice for T we can all give you well-intentioned "how to fall asleep" advice instead! Doesn't digestion pull blood from the rest of the body? making one drowsy? I know 'eat more' would earn me a death glare, but perhaps eating harder to digest things (cuts of meat, etc) would pull more resources and make you sleepier?

Or, ya'know, there's nyquil. ;-)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

If I need NyQuil to sleep after this sort of thing, I don't need to sleep. Cure's worse'n the ailment and all.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Urk. Am glad you're both back home, but /urk/.

[pameladean]

You know, I was zipping through my friendspage yesterday and wondering where you were. E had asked if there was anything interesting on LJ, but few people whom he knows were posting.

I'm glad you're both home again. Also glad it wasn't at 3:30 a.m.

I think the mother's third cousin routine must be hardwired, which if anything just makes it more annoying. I caught myself doing it with cats the other day.

P.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Dear, were you reading quickly or suggesting a genuine difference in the emergency room between 2:30 and 3:30 a.m.?

At any rate, 2:30 a.m. was extremely empty and efficient.

Yesterday I was just working on a short story.

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

I hope he's feeling better. Scary!