- I am cheating and working from home today. But still working. And just realized I have some massive work-bits that need doing today. #
- Sitting in the ER with Margie, who slipped and broke her ankle. 🙁 #
- Just as well I was working fr home today. #
- So both tibia and fibula broken or something. Will require surgery, prolly after relo to St Joe’s (KP’s hospital in town). #
- Am well-supplied with books and suduko for me and Margie. K already signed up for after-school care. Will figure out details once know plan. #
- M’s being discharged from Littleton; apptmt downtown this afternoon with orthopod. #
- Surgery, bolts to ensue. Meanwhile, Oxycodone and Percocet are our friends! #
- Okay, have arranged for neighbor (whose kids we sat over the weekend) to watch after K when she gets home, so we’re go for our apptmt. #
- Very glad, living in a country with no national health insurance, we have excellent personal coverage. Worry about money now would suck. #
- At the clinic. Learning the wonders of wheelchairs. Wow – we get to apply for a temp handicap placard? #
- Margie noted this would have been good time sink to plow through Xmas catalogs. Suspect we’ll have more chances. #
- They also serve who stand and wait, and wait, and wait … #
- Paging DrM Godot. Paging Dr. Godot. Your patients are waiting in Room 3 … #
- Multi x-rays later, off down street to St Joes to either get the foot splinted better or else emergency surgery tonight. #
- Early prognosis – off leg for 2 wks min, cast, crutches, PT, not recovered for 6 mos. Yikes. #
- Booted to the waiting room so med crew can sedate and reset M’s ankle, as Littleton did so poorly. Likely no surgery until next few days. #
- The ER Waiting Room needs a giant clock, ever-so-slowly ticking … off … the … seconds … #
- Someone, somewhere around the ER here is (amateurishly) playing Christmas carols on a piano. Still nice. #
- Sedation and setting complete and copacetic. M being checked in, for surgery tomorrow a.m. Yay! #
- Margie esconsed in room. Very tired (abd hungry) (me, too). Will learn more of surgery sched tomorrow. #
- You’ve heard the joke about regular minutes and football minutes? Hospital minutes apparently trump all. “If hours were like days, Captain.” #
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