I don’t remember how it happened but I found myself having chest pains one afternoon and after going to the local urgent care, I was strongly advised – despite my reservations – to go to the emergency room.
If you know anything about emergency rooms, you’ll know why it’s the last place where I want to be.
I was there for a full 12 hours.
However, I do have to give the ER staff credit though. They did me a solid in that, they didn’t admit me right away. What they did instead was to just sit me right in front of the attendant nurse so that they would be the first to see me keel over and administer CPR. And throughout the 12 hours, they just took my blood pressure – which was admittedly all over the place – to make sure my condition wasn’t getting any worse. This probably saved me a ton of money.
In the end, after all the waiting, I was finally admitted and as you could imagine it was a busy night for the ER doctors.
My schedule doesn’t allow me to go out and photograph a lot of different places so I used this time to just do some random iPhone photography:
here’s my room:
a tight shot of some hospital equipment:
The nurse that was taking my blood pressure asked why I was taking photos. I told her that I’m a social media influencer and that my audience (you, the reader) demand only the most exquisite photographic art! 😄 She laughed.
In the end, the doctors ran my blood tests and found that I was only high in some values and that there was some type of issue in my enzymes that could be remedied with prescribed meds. Honestly, I don’t really remember the details of it, I just wanted to go home.
Again, the hospital really did me a solid by not admitting me right away and while it was a really long wait…..that’s the reality of emergency rooms nowadays. You have to try and stay out of situations that will bring you there.
Many of you will ask me “but Mike, this is Children’s Hospital Of Philadelphia. Why would you go here?”
And I’ll tell you this; life of a grown man is very tough. Sometimes, I just wanna be baby’d again 🤣
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