What a "Fun" Morning
Get up at 7:25, get ready to go to my dermatologist appointment. Realize that I set my alarm wrong, so I woke up 10 minutes later than I was intending, so I got off a bit later than I ought to have.
Start driving there, get caught in the 15mph zones near both elementary schools that I pass, join rush quarter-hour traffic, hit almost every light wrong, and pass a mild accident (Looked like probably just a bumper bump. Probably no real damage.) with a police car, to add to the congestion, though it cleared up pretty well right afterward.
Get to the doctor's office 13 minutes late, sign in, get admitted almost immediately, see dermatologist, attempt to get blood draw from one arm, succeed at getting blood drawn from the other arm, go to get schedule my next appointment.
Feel a bit light headed, murmur that I felt faint, put my head down to try to increase blood flow, and wake up to find myself on the floor with a few nurses around me. Apparently, I just crumpled and hit my tailbone and very slightly bumped my head going down.
Being in a doctor's office, which is in a hospital building, they decided that I needed to go to the emergency room, just to be on the safe side.
I get wheelchaired to the ER, which thankfully had no one waiting, so I was admitted fairly swiftly. They did an EKG, and a standard physical exam, and the emergency doctor decided I had a vasovagal syncope (Read, I fainted as a reaction from having my blood drawn.), and said he wouldn't bother with an x-ray, because even if my tailbone was damaged (And I doubt it was, since only slightly hurt.) they couldn't do anything about it if it was. Good. Save us some money.
So, in the end, there was nothing wrong, and I was on the opposite side of the hospital from where I parked.
And all that before breakfast.
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So how was your morning? :P
Start driving there, get caught in the 15mph zones near both elementary schools that I pass, join rush quarter-hour traffic, hit almost every light wrong, and pass a mild accident (Looked like probably just a bumper bump. Probably no real damage.) with a police car, to add to the congestion, though it cleared up pretty well right afterward.
Get to the doctor's office 13 minutes late, sign in, get admitted almost immediately, see dermatologist, attempt to get blood draw from one arm, succeed at getting blood drawn from the other arm, go to get schedule my next appointment.
Feel a bit light headed, murmur that I felt faint, put my head down to try to increase blood flow, and wake up to find myself on the floor with a few nurses around me. Apparently, I just crumpled and hit my tailbone and very slightly bumped my head going down.
Being in a doctor's office, which is in a hospital building, they decided that I needed to go to the emergency room, just to be on the safe side.
I get wheelchaired to the ER, which thankfully had no one waiting, so I was admitted fairly swiftly. They did an EKG, and a standard physical exam, and the emergency doctor decided I had a vasovagal syncope (Read, I fainted as a reaction from having my blood drawn.), and said he wouldn't bother with an x-ray, because even if my tailbone was damaged (And I doubt it was, since only slightly hurt.) they couldn't do anything about it if it was. Good. Save us some money.
So, in the end, there was nothing wrong, and I was on the opposite side of the hospital from where I parked.
And all that before breakfast.
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So how was your morning? :P
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Even better: All that before 10 a.m. :)
I'm no fan of hospitals or blood-drawing. :( I must admit, though, to being a little curious at the connection between seeing the dermatologist and getting your blood drawn?
I'm going to the dermatologist for acne, which, by this point, they said I should be on the heavy artillery of acne medications, which is oral, and highly regulated (Apparently a whole lot worse for females than for males, because it can cause birth defects. Each 10 count blister pack of the stuff says "Do not get pregnant" in some form or another over 20 times. :P), so, because of potential side effects, they need to keep an eye on various things, which they can get through blood tests. On the bright side, if the results come back fine this time and next time, they don't need to continue the blood tests.
Important to add to your regime: cut way way back on sugar consumption and go way way up on water... Will Seriously help.