loracs | 9 hours of doing nothing is exhausting!

At least when it's spent in the ER.

dbubley is home and in bed now. She has a very bad urinary tract infection. But first we had to spend 9 hours waiting, doing something, waiting, waiting and then waiting a little more. She was in excruciating pain much of the time, esp. the first 4 hours - that's how long it took to get seen by a doctor and prescribed some morphine while they waited for urine and blood test to come back. In between, she had to deal with 4 sticks before they got the IV in, 3 tries on the catheter insertion and laying on a very uncomfortable gurney for hours. Not like they make such a thing as a comfortable gurney, esp for fat folks with arthritis in their back. The second hit of morphine was more for the back pain then the original pain. They almost admitted her, but I think they were short on beds, which actually was fine with her. She was not looking forward to a night in the hospital. And it might have been spent on the gurney in the ER. The woman she shared the ER room with for the first hour had been waiting for a hospital room since the night before.

Anyway, I didn't really do anything but read, watch tv, talk some and help her move from wheelchair to gurney a few times. But I feel like I've run a marathon.

Tomorrow will be a very busy day as I try to get everything done for the party on Saturday. I love having my xmas open house and I know it will all come together.