how was your day today?

Question

anything interesting happened? embarrasing moment? something funny happened? anything you like to share. I like stories.

best story gets 10 points.

Answer 1

My day started at 4 am, when my spouse finally agreed he needed to go to the ER for kidney stones. After waiting for 45 minutes after check-in without being seen, after he'd rated his pain a 10 on a 10 scale and described his hot and swollen back (the kidney), I asked when he would be seen or if we should take him to another hospital.

The nurse asked me what I wanted her to do!!!! I said I wanted my spouse to get medical care. She said there were people with serious conditions in the back!

I pointed out the triage flow chart to her and showed her that, although my husband had no chest pains, the number two question indicating a need to be immediately seen is a life-threatening condition, which a blocked kidney is.

I mentioned my husband had had 7 kidney stone surgeries in the prior year. When I mentioned my husband was lying for 45 minutes on a tiny pediatric size couch, the nurse told me it had only been 35 minutes. I told her this wasn't relevant (or true) and asked again for my husband to be given care. She said - I can give him a room and an IV, but no doctor.

I said, great. My phone rang, as I'd called my husband's urologist. He recommended sitting tight, as getting to his hospital would entail as much time as we'd wait at the one near our home. I entered the room my husband had now been brought too. The evil nurse glared and then said to me, while preparing my husband's arm for an IV - "I've got something to say to you and I'm going to say it as nicely as I can." I was utterly floored.

So, because I was in no mood for her message to me, however nicely she'd frame it, I said to her - No, don't say anything to me, why don't you just shut up and take care of my husband?' I said this very quietly but very nastily. She immediately dropped my husband's arm, picked up the phone and called security to come and remove a patient's spouse!

I callied the nurse a 'f'n b' and whirled around to leave. The auto door didn't open, so I pushed it - only it's not supposed to push out, it's supposed to slide, so I knocked it off its track and kept going.

A woman followed me out to the parking lot and said she'd yelled at them earlier, but she'd never broken their door before. She said she kept bringing her husband back because of an infection that keeps raging and the hosptial keeps discharging him after they bring the fever down for a few hours. Where once he had a bruise, he now has a oozing wound.

I could see the security guy staring at me through the window and jotting notes. As I have training as a counselor and the woman who's husband had an infection was more distraught than I, I listened to the worried wife's story for a good twenty minutes before going merrily on my way.

I got some sleep and called the ER when I woke. They transferred my call to a nurse's cell phone. She brought the phone to my husband and he told me that as soon as I broke the door, people arrived to analyze it - it was fine - and a doctor arrived and gave him pain medication.

The doctor got on the phone and told me that the urologist has called them and that we should go in right way for an appt. They had a disc full of cat scan images waiting when I arrived. Every single staffer was sweet as could be. It was like a different hospital. We had to leave right away for the doctor, after stopping home to check with our contractor/former-bro-in-law who is repairing our interior staircase which is collapsing.

The urologist is rated best in the area - and while the visit was quick, it's poignant, because his son became a quadraplegic last year in a beach wave accident and the story of his intense, hopeful rehabilitation, at a center which boasts having brought another quadraplegic to iron man status, is pasted on the office door. Today also there was a poem tacked there, about lying naked in the water, paralyzed, aware of the transition from one life to a new one, one unsought but here and demanding to be dealt with (like for us since the sudden and unexpected death of my precious precious father weeks ago.)

We drove immediately to a radiologist - near our son's allergist - to get more pictures made. This went very quickly and we squeezed in an allergy shot for our son, where we got chewed out for not having our insurance card with us.

When we drove back to get my husband, a woman started backing up towards me, on a one way street, with me on top of a hill. I beeped gently, she rolled down her window and said "CAN"T YOU SEE I"M BACKING UP?" I said - this is a one way street. She said - It's too crowded down that street. A woman was walking by and said, "No it's not, I just drove there." The driver just started backing up towards me again. I said - you are a menace, a selfish menace. She said, "You are a b.'

Then, we drove to the pharmacy with the pain killer prescriptions given to us at the ER. The pharmacy doesn't stock those, because they don't like to stock narcotics, but there's a branch across town - we're now in rush hour - that has it. Great, I say, please fax this to them or call them with. No can do - it's a schedule II drug. She looks at us with great suspicion. We wonder if we look like Nicole Bush.

At this point, I had to drop my husband off at home. Waiting on the front porch, the new t-shirts I'd ordered for me and our first born, emblazoned with a picture of Che and the message to Resist Imperialism. They've thrown in a gorgeous "Bring Home The Troops Now" bumper sticker which I affix to my bumper before driving off.

Well, the drive across town was beautiful, the pharmacy filled the order quickly, and a great bbq place made dinner for me to take home, while I waited.

85 dollars for the meal, and It cost 10 bucks for the meds, tho god knows what the ER visit will cost and insurance only pays 85 percent of that. The allergist doesn't believe we have insurance because we forgot the card and wants 1342 dollars next week. But, I've faxed them the insurance card again, (they lost it and had only an old one on file) and all should be well. I drove home listening to Bill Clinton and Bill Gates on C-Span, taking questions on AIDS prevention and treatment in Africa and the changes their projects will bring.

It's only 7:30 pm - i can't wait to see what else we have time for.

Answer 2

Today was a great day! I work at credit union but, I was waiting for a background check that the FBI had to do since I will be working in a high security building. Today they gave me my clearance and I am so happy. I have an awesome schedule monday thru friday from 7:30-3:30. Where I am working at I work till 4:30 every day except fridays that I work till 6:30 =/ I hate it..lol..So, I am happy because I know that starting this friday I am out by 3:45..Thank god =)

Answer 3

well today started off a little rocky, i live in the boonies so i get no cell reception and i am the person who is supposed to open the office in the morning and half way to work i realized i forgot my keys, well i couldnt turn around and get them because im on probation for being late all the time so i had to rush into town and call my boss, go to his house pick up the keys and get to work before 9. i didn't make it. i was just a little late but they dont really care kind of like every one reading this story but hey its worth a shot at 10 points.

Answer 4

I had today off and got to spend several hours chatting with my Lady on the net...we have met twice in person and really hit it off...just lately work schedules have kept us from spending more than a few minutes at a time chatting...she is in England and I live in the USA...got my passport application back saying I need to provide more information...as if when if I had done something wrong they'd know who I am in a heartbeat...fu(king bastards! Now I have to look up old school records and such...what a pain!

Answer 5

My day is really only just beginning,I have taken 2 of my children to school,done all the housework,done my homework for college,walked the dog,Done paintings with my son,and built a cubby house out of sheets with him,so I have had a really great day so far,so as my day has just really began,as it is only now 11.30 am,please keep your fingers crossed for me that the rest of my day is smooth sailing.I hope you had a great day to.

Answer 6

bad i went riding my bike and rode it 4 miles and then this lady comes behind me ( which scared me) on a bridge and i was dumb enough to look behind me and my bike turned and hit the side of my bridge and now my back tire is broke. so i had to walk my bike four miles back to my house instead of riding it. and now i cant even ride my bike for a while until it gets fixed. today was not my day.

the sad thing was the same thing happened to my mom yesterday

Answer 7

I've had a bad day, on here anyway. i was insulted and called a slut because I have 5 kids, then I was reported by some jerk cause he said I didn't ask a question eventhough I did. You tell me, how is my day?

Answer 8

From one Super Person to another... since Friday it has been so schizophrenic! Life has been so full of, lets try and mess it all up... I have not allowed it... i have achieved, and that is a part of life i have to keep rolling!

Answer 9

Had a pretty good day. Wore a white linen skirt to work and realized later that you could see my panties through it,but other than that, no probs!

Answer 10

Boring... found out my friends are not worthy friends... read more than half way of a book ... boredom sucks!

Answer 11

yes i did because my gf gave me a b l o w j ob