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ERs sore throats and panic attacks.

First of all, let me say, Happy 2013! We survived my 29th birthday! Nothing happened on 12/21/12 and we can relax.

Mom  has Jury Duty in the morning and that means guess who has to get her brother ready to catch his bus to work? Amethyst Wildcat that's who. Hopefully Justin doesn't throw too much of a fit. The guy isn't really a morning person
This was taken at Justin's 21st birthday party last September.















Well aside from the the family news, I haven't been feeling too well. For the past few weeks I've been having a sore throat that goes away and comes back. I think it's one of my chief complaints at the Chico State Health Center. Not only that my roomies both have the same ailment. and it's interfereing with our lives. So the three of us went to the ER. We arrived there at 3:06 and I was seen at 5:37 pm by a doctor who wondered just how long I was willing to wait to be seen. I had been Lizzie's moral support for the times she had been a patient. I'm a little upset that she chose to stay with Rini when she was seen about an hour after I was discharged. 

I honestly thought they were going to give me a test to see what was wrong, all the doctor did was take a look at my throat and write a prescription for antibiotics and cough drops. I was out at about 6 pm.
Rini was called back near 6:30 pm and once she and Lizzie left, the ER suddenly felt very crowded. I was alone in a room with crying children and coughing people. One young girl really wanted to go home I WANTED OUT OF THERE! More and more people were coming in with emergencies, I contemplated calling mom and begging her to come and pick me up. I fled to the cafeteria just to try to get away from the crowd. My plan was to escape the crowd and get a semibalance of normalicy. Once I was calmer I would be able to wait for them to be discharged. That didn't really work. I was starving and feeling slightly naeusious. I was having a panic attack, yes it is irrational looking back on it, but at the time I felt like a caged animal. I wish I had had my Phoenix Wright game just so I could play it. Hey, It worked when I had Jury Duty. May mom's DA be nicer than mine was. 

I fled to the cafeteria and at first read a newspaper, I was getting desperate to kill some time. That was around 7:30 pm. I went back a few minutes later and stayed there for a few minutes reading a story on my Kindle Fire. The story was really romantic and a bit NC-17. At around 8 pm I went back to the ER, Just seeing the crowd of people and the SRO of the situation I panicked. I don't know why, but I love Anime Cons, the crowds at those events are fine. However crowded busses and ERs make me panic. 

As I was sitting in the crowded ER with people packed like sardines, we heard the sounds of a helicopter as it landed on the helipad. I went outside with some other people and watched it land, or try to watch it land as it was nearly 9 pm.

Rini was released at 9:26 pm and we left to go through the drive through at Mickey D's for dinner. Those chicken nuggets never tasted so good. As the late Anne McCaffery once said "when you're hungry enough, even tunnel snake tastes good."

Hopefully I won't have to go back to the ER for a while. 


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