Pennyfinder
Elite Member
Frustrated. Have an app't to see my doctor here next week (Mar 7) BUT my cold or whatever it is got worse during the night to the point I THOUGHT I was having a heart attack but it subsided and I sat up from 2 am to 5 am and waited till my doctor's office opened at 8am (slept a little till then). They happened to have a cancellation and said come on in. I did. Well I got worse at the office but she assured me it WAS NOT A HEART ATTACK! But she called an ambulance and sent me to the hospital. She told me that if I went home and didn't improve she would put me in the hospital. So I went along with her plan. In the ER they promptly put me on the heart monitor and I guess got an EKG. I don't know for sure. They took 8 tubes of blood and some urine. The nurse asked for a urine sample and I told her "I gave at the office!" (That didn't phase her she just brought me ice water for me to drink and said she would check on me in about a half hour). And a doctor came in and gave me a breathing treatment (but not before they took me to get a chest X-ray. I got an antibiotic shot at the doctor's office and then the ambulance attendant started the IV (but did not hook a bag up). She gave me a steroid shot through the IV tube --- as did the ER attendant (nurse) when I was placed in an ER room (swinging from the trees wheeeeeeeeeee)! Later (2 hours maybe) I got the results of my x-ray and the blood work --- BOTH NORMAL! YEAH! I was tested for flu and strep at the doctor's office and at the ER. Doctor's office said no flu but tested POSITIVE for STREP. ER said no flu and NO STREP and NO PNEUMONIA. I was released with no way to get home -- truck was still at the doctor's office. So I called the doctor's office and told them I was free to go! THEY WERE SHOCKED! Two nurses from the doctor's office came to get me and took me back to the office so I could get my truck! YES! I DROVE MYSELF HOME! I told the nurses if you have a police scanner listen to see if the cops pull a senior woman over for driving under the influence of medication because I was certainly higher than I kite. BUT I DID MAKE IT HOME! And I have had my very strong antibiotic from MY doctor and the inhaler from the ER doctor plus a cough drop from Dollar General! I hope this all makes sense -- 'cause I am definitely WOOZY! You might get abit angry reading but maybe you might get a laugh out of it. But I'm still not happy about the whole ordeal! If the situation does not improve in a couple days I am to go back to MY doctor at which time she will try, I'm sure, to get admitted to the hospital! I don't know. Sheesh!