Going to the Emergency Room
Oct 14th 2003:
Being the kinda person who hates to mess with a weekend, I decided that I would make the trip to the hospital on monday. I am living in a small town (12,000+/-) that has a decent hospital, most of the doctors visit the hospital from out of town.
Remembering that my Mother always told me to wear clean under wear, so on monday I showered and shaved so that I would look and smell good if I had to strip my clothes off for any exams or tests. I found a parking space close to the emergency entrance and then went to check in, this proved quite painless as I was the only person at the desk at 10 am.
The clerk was very nice and asked me what I needed and gave me a form to fill out with personal info. While I was explaining my symptoms and answering all the questions on the check in form, a nurse came and told me to wait till later to finish the paper work. I went to an examination room where the nurse took my vitals and asked if I was in any pain, which I replied “no , not now’, so back I went to finish the paper work.
About 3 minutes after I was done another nurse called me back into the exam room where she proceeded to re-take my vitals and also asking the same questions as the 1st nurse. Now enter the er doctor who chatted with me for a few minutes then told me they wanted to have some x-rays taken so off I went in a wheel chair to get my x-rays done, this took about 10 minutes. Now I was wheeled back to the exam room where there was another nurse who hooked me up for a ekg , while another proceeded to take 4 vials of blood. Now I laid on the exam table, waiting for the results of all the test to be available for the doctor to review, for about 30 mins when the er doctor came in and told me that there was nothing that showed up that was critical and we discussed about my general health. He recommended that I see a cardiologist to determine just what was wrong with me.
Now came a problem, the dr asked me who my primary doctor was and I said I had none here in town, so he said I would have to have a local dr to refer me to a cardiologist and gave me a list of local drs to make an appointment with to get a referral. I went home and selected a name and called and was lucky to get in the next day tues the 15th.
October 14, 2003
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