Tuesday, December 09, 2003

Food Poisoning II

Ah jesus, I had to go to the hospital again today because the pain got worse...

This time I didn't go in an ambulance so I had to wait in the ER waiting room for about an hour and I was literally dying. "Someone shoot me. Someone shoot me". Then they finally called me in to ask me questions which I obviously couldn't answer because I was in so much pain. I was like, "Sweet Jesus, I was here yesterday. Just look at the damn file. It's in that pile..." and sure enough it was. Eventually they put me in a room and I was sent up to get an ultrasound. The doctors thought I might be developing appendicitis but 2 hours laters the results didn't show anything abnormal with my appendix, so they were clueless. I was getting irritated at that point because I still had pain and I had been in there for 5 HOURS. Eventually I just said "Look, it's not food poisoning because I'm no pooing water, it's a bacterial infection, can you just give me something for the pain?" And the doctor said something along the lines of, "That's could be likely. Let's just start you on a course of antibiotics" and then I realized I had just freaking diagnosed myself.

The doctors at Marin General Hospital are idiots. No wonder they're known to be famous for killing people.

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