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March 29, 2004
Hating Hospitals
I hate hospitals. So it's entirely likely that I'm to be cursed with having to deal with them. It's only been a few days since I spent half a day in an emergency room. Now I've got the bill. It's not pretty.
If that weren't enough, now my mother is in the hospital. She's anemic and they're doing all kinds of 'scopies on her tomorrow. Today they made her hold her breath in the CT scanner with a biopsy needle in her liver.
I don't even have the humor at the moment to shake my head at the retarded luck I'm having.
I realize I do not have the patience of a physically weak person. I hate being sick because I don't have the stomach for not being able to work through things. I'm going to hate dying. I can't go quietly. So sitting by my mother's bedside is an exercise in patience for someone else. Very trying.
I don't need this kind of aggravation, but I get it. That's why I needed a cigar.
Posted by mbowen at March 29, 2004 09:48 PM
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Oy, like you needed this! I'm wishing your mom the very, very best so's she can raise up out of there soonest.
Posted by: George at March 30, 2004 04:54 AM
Your mom goes on my prayer list.
Posted by: Juliette at March 30, 2004 08:39 PM